Archbishop Miller teaches the importance of theology

Vancouver's shepherd lectures students at the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto

Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, talks about the importance of theology in
Catholic universities at the University of St. Michael's College
at the University of Toronto Nov. 28. Photo by Ruane Remy / CCN.

The B.C. Catholic has a story by Catholic Register reporter Ruane Remy about a talk by Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, about theology:

Theology should be at the heart of Catholic universities, Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, told a Toronto audience Nov. 28. 

The archbishop told those gathered in a packed hall at the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto that all Catholic universities must have a department of theology and that the teaching of this subject should not be limited to the seminary. 

Archbishop Miller has spent plenty of time on university campuses. A graduate of St. Michael’s, he has also been the president of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and the Vatican secretary for Catholic education.

After Vatican II, he said, theology departments began to form but shifted to the more neutral religious studies. Though the latter should be studied, he continued, it should not replace theology at a Catholic university because listening in faith to the real word of God is a “definitive principle of Catholic theology.”

Read the full story at The B.C. Catholic website.