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Faith and Fidelity

 I receive the Thomas Aquinas College quarterly newsletter, since 2 of my kids graduated from TAC (and quite a few of my friends and acquaintances and their children); and today I went to the new issue of their Aquinas Review, which is a scholarly journal, published by the college on a semi-annual basis.   On its front matter section I find this: 

Consistent with the nature of the College, The Aquinas Review is marked by fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and a respect for the great tradition of liberal learning, which is our common heritage. 

It's not that this statement is odd or remarkable; but it struck me suddenly because the bolded part in particular seems like something all Catholic publications should abide by but not all do nowadays.  At least, if you don't plan to do so, it would be good to warn your readers that this is not your plan.   Now that I am thinking about it, I am going to check whenever I am reading an article, just to see if I can find the overrarching publication's mission statement and what it says.

In this blog I will be faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church as far as I understand it.   I realize that there are complications in these days, but perhaps not as many as one would think.     That topic may come up again.  

Here is the Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity from the Vatican -- it doesn't really list dates or context, but from looking around I think it is from 1998.  I found a document from John Paul II, in 1998, that revised Canon Law accordingly.  If I find anything more recent I'll edit.   Here's a kind of collection of all the relevant documents, with commentary from Ratzinger as Prefect of the then-CDF.  

Obviously I do not hold Catholic office or represent Catholicism in any official way.   I am one of the Christifideles Laici.  

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