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Three Take Oath of Fidelity During Opening Mass
The Oath has been taken every year since 1989 by all theology professors and those involved in the spiritual formation of students.Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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STEUBENVILLE—Standing before Steubenville Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, three members of the University community vowed to “always endeavor to preserve communion with the Catholic Church, whether in speech or in action,” during the Opening Mass for new students on Friday, August 20.
Taking the Oath of Fidelity were Brother Augustine Lieb, TOR, who is spending a year interning in the Office of Evangelization; Dr. Thomas Wilson, interim vice president for Academic Affairs; and Father Vincent Inghilterra, a retired priest from the Diocese of Trenton and a 37-year military chaplain, who is the new associate director of the Pre-Theologate Program.
The Oath of Fidelity has been administered at Franciscan University since 1989, when the University’s theology faculty and priests voted unanimously to become the first Catholic university to support a decree issued earlier that year by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The decree called on Catholic colleges and universities to profess adherence to Church teaching in areas of faith and morals.