News Item: : Cardinal William Baum - Requiescat in Pace
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Thursday 30 July 2015 - 17:20:46

Of your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Cardinal William Baum, who has passed from this life at the age of 88. The late cardinal's funeral Mass and burial will take place tomorrow in Washington D.C.

Catholics everywhere can thank Cardinal Baum for his important role in the formation of St. John Paul II's constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex corde Ecclesiae.

This document was developed as an authorative rebuttal by the Church, to the infamous dissent from Humanae Vitae; which had emerged in such a large-scale, organized and public manner from the troublesome 'Land O' Lakes' conference in Wisconsin, during the summer of 1967.

Ex corde Ecclesiae furnished faithful professors, faculties and institutions with an authorative and orthodox template for the preservation of truly Catholic education and identity. Although many Catholic institutions have fallen away into outright post-Modernism, a number have worked to implement Ex corde Ecclesiae. Some examples include: Aquinas College; Ave Maria University; Christendom College; Franciscan University of Steubenville; and the John Paul II Institute. Indeed, university president, Fr. Sean O. Sheridan, TOR, will host a symposium on the theme of Embracing the Gift of Ex corde Ecclesiae to Challenge the Culture, at Franciscan University this coming September. 

Cardinal Baum also served on the commission which developed the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He explained: ''We live in a world of flux. We are buffeted by winds of change in doctrines and ideologies. We need very much a sure Catholic guide to what the Church believes, teaches and transmits.''

In his final months, His Eminence was cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor. May he rest in the Peace of Christ. Amen.     

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