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The Ecclesiastical Faculties have always been considered as the primary component of the University of Santo Tomas, which Pope Leo XIII proclaimed a Pontifical University (Constitution Quae Mari Sinico, VII, 17 September 1902), and honored by Pius XII with the title of The Catholic University of the Philippines (Litt. Apost. 10 April 1947).
The primary purpose of the Dominican Fathers in founding this institution of learning was to train from among the young men who flocked to their lecture rooms worthy ministers of the altar. It then received the official ecclesiastical recognition in the Brief In Supereminenti, given on November 20, 1645 at Rome under the pontificate of Innocent X.
On August 7, 1681, in answer to previous requests from the Dominican Fathers in the Philippines regarding the creation of a Faculty of Canon Law, Pope Innocent XI issued his Brief Inscrutabili; however, said Brief could not be implemented then due to the troubled circumstances of the period. Its implementation was carried out on November 11, 1733. On October 23, 1733, the King of Spain approved the project, which was confirmed by Clement XII on September 2, 1734, in his Brief Dudum Emanarunt.
In view of the peculiar nature of the goal of the students enrolled in the Ecclesiastical faculties, and in view of the ecclesiastical regulations governing the total formation of candidates for the priesthood, particular statutes were formed to govern the three faculties. The Ecclesiastical Faculty of Canon Law follows these Statutes which have been drawn up in accordance with John Paul II’s Constitution Sapientia Christiana (Apri1 15, 1979), the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education’s Norms of Application (April 29, 1979), its decree revising the order of studies in the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Canon Law (September 2, 2002). Said Norms require that the courses for the Licentiate in Canon Law be spread to a three year schedule. This is the foundation of the program that is laid down in this Prospectus.
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