The present and future of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences has students and professors of the recently re-founded school perplexed and alarmed, while reporters dig for answers.
Pope John Paul II founded the Institute nearly 40 years ago, following the 1980 synod on the family. The focus of the institute was to be on advanced theological formation and research. It was meant to immerse students in the Church’s way of thinking theologically and applying that way of thinking to the family, thus preparing them to engage with contemporary culture over the increasingly urgent and pressing questions of the family in the life of the Church and of society.
