QUOD
VOTIS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE
PROPOSED CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
To
Our Beloved Sons Anthony Joseph Cardinal Gruscha, Archbishop of Vienna;
George Cardinal Kopp, Bishop of Wroclaw, Leo Cardinal De Skrbensky, Archbishop
of Prague; John Cardinal Puzyna, Bishop of Cracow; and the Other Venerable
Brother Archbishops and Bishops of Austria.
Beloved
Sons and Venerable Brothers, Greetings and the Apostolic Blessing.
With
great joy you now announce that the object of the wishes of your predecessors,
which has been worked on for many years, is speeding to its happy conclusion.
For whatever is required for founding a Catholic University is all but
at hand; it is your consensus that the finishing touches can now be applied
to setting up this great Institution of learning. We have had to wait
for it longer than We might have hoped, but its completion has come about
at a proper and fitting time. Accordingly, We freely and with full approbation
assent to your plans, which in themselves are commendable. We wish to
point out explicitly in writing our great joy at this news, since We encourage
holy sets of learning to be established and enlarged everywhere. Moreover,
We declare this also to add an incentive to your faithful to hasten
the conclusion of so
great an enterprise. As for the details, We confide them to you; We have
no doubts of the generosity and approval of those for whose advantage
the desired University will come into existence. As soon as the details
that pertain to this Institution are ready, the Sacred Congregation of
Studies should communicate them to us: for their task is to inform Us
of these affairs and to use their mandated power of setting standards
for Catholic Institutions of learning according to the norms of the Sacred
Canons.
2. Meanwhile
We testify to each one of You Our happy and benevolent sentiments, and
We beseech divine favor on the work undertaken, and bestow the Apostolic
blessing on all of you.
Given
in Rome at St. Peter's, 30 April 1902, in the 25th year of Our Pontificate.
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