Catholic Identity

The teaching authority of the Catholic Church is of decisive importance to 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.

In the same document Pope John Paul II goes on to emphasise the research role of the University and its scholars.  That engagement in “research necessarily includes (a) the search for an integration of knowledge, (b) a dialogue between faith and reason, (c) an ethical concern, and (d) a theological perspective.”

Read President John Fleming's latest paper on Catholic Higher Education in Australia.