A NEW BIBLICAL INSTITUTE IN ROME?
Writes the Rome correspondent of the Enp ',' lish.VTablet":—,; : ; -/:/- :-,; :'■•'.. ''. /' ;' Some, of; the Italian papers announce, on > what authority your correspondent does not ; ;;,. know/ but:he.behoves, they are right, that ' ,-"'; the "Holy Father intends to found in' Roma '•'..'•"'.".' a special institute for higher Biblical studies. ■'':.■.; /': This, indeed,' wns,in the plans of Leo 'XIII, ; . ; when'• he formod.-.tho' Biblical-'Commission;; and the 'lack of funds was the -only: bar to its realisation at' tho time.. ; -Pius X has mora , than s onco expressed the wish that it were; possible to carry the idea out. The necessity; ' '; of such ah instituto'for tho training 'of prov ;.: fessors for sacred Scripture'has been growing' ;; more and more urgent'during recent years,> V -.' and. tho 'dearth of n sufficient number of ■ ;' ■; j really well-equipped' biblical scholars has , : made itself: fert in the Tecent re-, V organisation of the'personnel of i the Italian; sonvinaries.. /The Degrees in' Scripture would, . ■of'course, be entrusted'to tho, new institute.' , It is said that thePopo will shortly announce . in an important' document I ';the foundation of ; ; this new university, pointing out its'import- ■ anco and scope."'.; ".' r ; ■.';,..- ';,-." - ,':.':':
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 9
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184A NEW BIBLICAL INSTITUTE IN ROME? Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 9
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