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Every educational program demands a specific image of the human person and human flourishing and is founded upon a particular philosophical – even theological – understanding of the world.

The medieval university was founded as an expression of the Christian imaginative vision. As the anthropological bases of society grow more confused, universities face identity crises.

Catholic and secular universities are founded upon strikingly different assumptions concerning the existence and action of God, the proper bases of knowledge, and the doctrine of the Fall.

The Catholic university professor has received a high calling, requiring an attitude of service to truth, service to others, and an apostolic impulse.

An imaginative vision forms the basis of action for societies and individuals alike, and the human imagination allows us to carry an entire world within our minds.

When a society’s imaginative vision is founded on Christianity, the Church utilizes a Christendom mode of engagement; otherwise, an Apostolic mode pertains.

In order to direct the Apostolic impulse, we must clarify the principles and attitudes of engagement proper to our age.

Faith is a matter of vision: it is a way of seeing more truly and more fully, the healing of our minds that allows us to grasp what is real and what is true in its entirety.

In the midst of a great drama of realities visible and invisible, God invades rebel-held territory to redeem the wayward human race, taking on our nature in order to suffer on our behalf.

God established the Church as a colony of heaven on earth, which he inhabits and in which he clothes himself, continuing the rescue mission of Christ.