The Vocation of the Catholic University Professor

A Catholic university should invite students into a community of profound intellectual conversion. Its atmosphere is alive with the gaudium de veritate of Saint Augustine, the joy in the truth. Just there, in a classroom or laboratory at the end of the hallway, is to be found the “stupor” or astonishment of mind of Dante’s Convivio . There are many ways for this conversion to happen, but it simply will not happen without the teaching faculty. They are the lifeblood.