CONGREGATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION VATICAN :WHY IS SANDRA MAZZOLONI ALLOWED TO TEACH AT THE URBANIANA PONTIFICIAL UNIVERSITY ROME ?

Congregation for Catholic Education, Vatican: Why is Sandra Mazzoloni allowed to still teach at the Urbaniana University, Rome?

CONGREGATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION

In 1588, with the Constitution "Immensa," Pope Sixtus V erected the "Congregatio pro universitate studii romani" to supervise the studies at the University of Rome and other notable universities of the time, including Bologna, Paris and Salamanca.

Leo XII, in 1824, created the "Congregatio studiorum" for the schools of the Papal States which, starting in 1870, began to exercise authority over Catholic universities. The 1908 reform by St. Pius X confirmed this responsibility. Seven years later, Pope Benedict XV erected in this Congregation the section for seminaries (which existed within the Consistorial Congregation), joined to it the "Congregatio studiorum," and gave it the title of "Congregatio de Seminariis et Studiorum Universitatibus."

Pope Paul VI in 1967 gave it the name "Sacra Congregatio pro institutione Catholica." Today's name - the Congregation for Catholic Education (in Seminaries and Institutes of Study) - was received in 1988 with John Paul II's "Pastor Bonus."

As do all congregations, it has a prefect, secretary and under-secretary who are, respectively, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., and Msgr. A.Vincenzo Zani. It has 31 members - cardinals, archbishops and bishops - a staff of 25, and 31 consultors. Within this congregation is the Pontifical Work of Priestly Vocations, whose president is Cardinal Grocholewski.

This dicastery has authority in three diverse sectors: over all seminaries (except those falling within the jurisdiction of the Congregations for the Evangelization of Peoples and for Oriental Churches) and houses of formation of religious and secular institutes; over all universities, faculties, institutes and higher schools of study, either ecclesial or civil dependent on ecclesial persons; over all schools and educational institutes depending on ecclesiastical authorities.

Activity within the Office for Seminaries includes apostolic visits to Catholic institutions, preparation to receive bishops during their "ad limina" visits, nomination of rectors and the erection of seminaries. It has produced the "Directives on the Preparation of Educators in Seminaries" and constituted the Commission for a More Just Distribution of Priests in the World. It also produces a magazine entitled "Seminarium."

The congregation's second section, the Office for Universities, is responsible for, among other activities, approving new statutes for new or existing educational centers, nominating or confirming rectors and deans and approving the conferment of "honoris causa" doctoral degrees. It has published norms - due to an increased request - for those institutes or universities wishing to merge.

The Office for Catholic Schools collaborates with other dicasteries of the Roman Curia on questions of mutual interest, has contacts with bishops and with pontifical representatives abroad to remain abreast of the educational systems throughout the world and maintains relations with national and international Catholic organizations on matters concerning Catholic education.

Some of the issues treated by this office regard the teaching of sex education in Catholic schools, problems related to the teaching of moral or religious matters in public schools, the closing of Catholic schools in some countries or, in others, the juridical recognition of Catholic schools and ecclesial goods and properties.

In 1994 the Congregation for Catholic Education, in collaboration with the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, organized the 1st Latin American Continental Congress on Vocations, which took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from May 23-27. The 32nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations occurred this year.

The congregation yearly publishes statistics on the number of seminarians and priestly ordinations throughout the world: these appear in both the Activity of the Holy See and in the Pontifical Yearbook or "annuario."

from the blog eucharistandmission

Saturday, December 19, 2009

SANDRA MAZZOLINI ECCLESIOLOGY PROF.URBANIANA UNIVERSITY REJECTS CATHOLIC DOGMA AND VATICAN COUNCIL II : EDINBURGH 2010

A professor of ecclesiology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome has written a book in Italian which refutes the Catholic dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Her ‘research’ of the Church Fathers indicates that extra ecclesiam nulla salus does not mean everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church. Prof. Sandra Mazzolini, was a key speaker at the Urbaniana University Conference thiis month to celebrate the centenary next year of the Edinburgh 2010 meeting on Mission.

According to the daily Avvenire (Dec.4,2009) she mentioned Vatican Council II and its openness to the ecumenical path and a missionary style in dialogue with the world and the culture of peoples.

Mazzolini was contradicting an ex cathedra teaching of the Catholic Church on extra ecclesiam nulla salus and made no mention of Vatican Council II indicating that educated participants at ecumenical meetings are oriented to Hell unless they convert.

Sandra Mazzolini is the author of the book Chiesa e salvezza.L’extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in epoca patristica (Urbaniana University Press,Rome 2008).

14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved…-Lumen Gentium 14,Vatican Council II. Emphasis added)

Here are the ex cathedra dogmatic teachings that she refutes.It is a first class heresy for a Catholic.

Outside the Church there is no Salvation

“Outside the Church there is no salvation” is a doctrine of the Catholic Faith that was taught By Jesus Christ to His Apostles, preached by the Fathers, defined by popes and councils and piously believed by the faithful in every age of the Church. Here is how the Popes defined it:

“There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

“We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.)

“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) -from the website Catholicism.org

Mazzolini, an Italian,since May 2004 has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical University Urbaniana. Her bio data does not say if she is a Catholic.
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/07/congregation-for-catholic-education.html

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