The Pope encourages José Luis Mendoza to “go ahead with the projects and supporting the Church”
The president of the UCAM (Catholic
University of Murcia) participated in a private Mass with Pope Francis and he
briefed the Pope about the last details of the international project for the
diffusion of the studies on marriage and family by means of on-line degrees.
The president of the UCAM, José Luis
Mendoza, participated on Monday in the private Eucharist in the St. Martha’s
chapel of the papal residence, presided by His Holiness Pope Francis. Mendoza
had the honour of serving at the altar; a delegation of the Catholic University
participated as well, together with the president’s wife, María Dolores García,
and Javier Belda, dean of the Faculty of Human, Canonical and Religious
Sciences and responsible for the degrees that the Catholic University of Murcia
has launched with the Pontifical Lateran University, the university of the
Pope.
For José Luis Mendoza, this meeting
represents “a gift and a great sign of support of the Pope, and an invitation
to continue supporting the Church as we have done ever since the founding of
the University, by giving the best of ourselves in this important task that we
have been given”.
Furthermore, the delegation of the UCAM has
held various meetings in different Roman dicasteries in order to consolidate
this training project, which is framed in the agreements signed with the
Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute and the Pontifical Lateran
University, with the aim of allowing “the thinking of Pope Francis in the
canonical and familiar subject to reach the whole world”, as highlighted by
Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological
Institute of Rome.
These agreements entail, among other
things, as special commitments of the UCAM, the creation of the Digital Library
“Amoris Laetitia” and the possibility to offer, for the first time with an
on-line modality and with a civil value, degrees that belong to disciplines
such as Canon Law or the new vision of the Studies on Marriage and Family.