John Paul II Institute

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Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America
Latin: Pontificium Institutum Joannes Paulus II Studiorum Matrimonii ac Familiae Vashintoniae
Established:	1988
Type:	Private, Pontifical, Graduate School
Religious affiliation:	Roman Catholic
Chancellor:	Camillo Cardinal Ruini
President:	Rev. Msgr. Livio Melina
Vice-president:	Carl A. Anderson
Vice-Chancellor:	Most. Rev. Donald Wuerl
Dean:	David L. Schindler
Faculty:	12^[1]
Location:	Washington, DC
Campus:	Urban
Website:	http://www.johnpaulii.edu

The John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America is a satellite session of the central session at the Lateran University in Rome.

The Washington session was founded in 1988 at the request of then-Archbishop of Washington James Cardinal Hickey and Virgil C. Dechant, who was then Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.^[2]

1 Location
2 Governance
3 Academics
4 Publishing
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Location

The Institute is located in the Brookland section of Washington, DC, at McCormick Pavilion, adjacent to Catholic University and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It was originally housed at the nearby Dominican House of Studies.

In 2008, the Institute will move onto the campus of Catholic University, to the building presently known as Keane Hall.

[edit] Governance

Despite its name and location, the Institute is juridically separate from Catholic University. It falls under the authority of the Grand Chancellor and President at the Roman session of the Institute, Camillo Cardinal Ruini and Monsignor Livio Melina, respectively. Locally, it is governed by a Vice-Chancellor, who is always the archbishop of Washington, and a Vice-President, currently Carl A. Anderson.

[edit] Academics

The Washington session offers programs leading to the pontifical degrees of Doctor and Licentiate of Sacred Theology with special emphasis in marriage and family studies. It also confers the degrees of Ph.D. in Theology and Master of Theological Studies, both also specialized in marriage and family.

In 2007, the Institute began offering an additional track for the M.T.S. degree focusing on biotechnology and ethics.

[edit] Publishing

The Institute is home to the North American edition of the theological journal Communio. The Institute's provost and academic dean, David Schindler, serves as editor-in-chief of the journal, and many other faculty members serve on its editorial board and are frequent contributors.

The faculty also joined that of the worldwide Institute to contribute to a 2006 collection of essays entitled The Way of Love reflecting on Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est.