Our Goal and Purpose

The mission of Campion College is:

to form future leaders of society and the Church by a broad program of learning in the Liberal Arts that integrates the insights of faith and reason.

Campion College Australia is distinctive in both educational and religious terms.

Educationally, the curriculum of the College is based on the traditional Liberal Arts model, which has stood the test of time as an educational structure that fosters the intellectual development of students, as well as preparing them for a career. It entails systematic study across a broad array of subjects, stimulating genuine freedom of thought by opening the mind to the discovery and embrace of truth.

Religiously, it is recognisably Catholic in its affirmation of belief in the teaching authority of the Catholic Church. Students will receive a proper grounding in Catholic belief and thought, and be exposed to the richness of the Church's spiritual, moral, intellectual and cultural traditions.

The teaching authority of the Church is of decisive importance in the life of Campion College. The Church has a recognised competence in its own sphere of theological enquiry. More broadly, its authority safeguards the search for truth by keeping in balance a range of intellectual freedoms.

These acknowledge:

• the right of individual scholars to 'search for the truth', as Pope John Paul II states in 'Ex Corde Ecclesiae', 'wherever analysis and evidence lead them';
• the right of students not to be misled or victimised;
• the right of the university to have its defined identity and purpose respected; and
• the right of the community to have the common good protected.