L’Université Catholique Du Congo

Erected by the National Episcopal Conference of Congo in July 2009, the Faculty of Political Science Intends to promote in-depth teaching and rigorous research in political science. It also intends to contribute to the advent and development of policies based on peoples' experiences.

The Faculty of Political Sciences is thus called upon to train experts in political science in order to encourage and support the desires of peoples towards the establishment of good political governance. Students trained in these sciences must harmonize academic and professional maturation with training in moral and religious principles and initiation into the social doctrine of the Church. The curriculum will thus include appropriate ethical training and provide opportunities for Catholic doctrine courses.... [-]

Created by the National Episcopal Conference of Congo and canonically erected by the Congregation for Catholic Education, the Faculty of Canon Law aims to promote a thorough teaching and rigorous research in canonical science in harmony with Roman law, modern civil law and The African customs.

She thus trained experts in canon law in a spirit of service and full fidelity to the ecclesiastical Magisterium. These experts will also apply to the inculturation of canonical legislation in Africa, "without infringing the divine law and the great discipline of the Church".

In this perspective, the Faculty of Canon Law helps to resolve, at first, the urgent necessity of the African Church: - to provide the faculties, the various ecclesiastical higher institutes and the major seminaries with qualified personnel for the Course of Canon Law; - to put at the disposal of the ecclesiastical courts competent judicial personnel; - to provide the Bishops and Major Superiors of Institutes of Consecrated Life and of Societies of Apostolic Life, specialists who can assist them in their respective governments.... [-]

The Faculty of Economics and Development received from CENCO the mission to train cadres capable of promoting in a Christian spirit the development actions in the country and to study scientifically the social problems and to make operational the solutions envisaged on the basis The social teaching of the Church and the basic options of the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo in this matter.

The basic studies are spread over five years, ie 3 years of graduate and 2 years of license. The Bachelor's degree program may be supplemented by the Bachelor's Degree of Higher Secondary Education (organized by the Department of Agregation of Secondary Education), which entitles the Bachelor to teach in secondary schools.... [-]

The main objective of the Faculty of Philosophy is to contribute to the training of professional philosophers and to have, as one of the main centers of interest and reflection, man in general and the religious phenomenon of Africa in particular. The program of philosophical training tends to give the student the breadth and vigor of mind necessary for a philosophical and scientific apprehension of African society, thought, wisdom and spirituality.

The faculty thus intends to help its students to enter into dialogue with theologians and other scholars. The beneficiaries of such training are at the service of the Church and the Nation in various sectors of education and for all other national development tasks for which they are trained.... [-]

The aim of the Faculty of Social Communications is to train both scientifically competent communication professionals and men who are aware and ready to engage and integrate the message of the Gospel into the new culture created by the means of Modern communication (...) with new languages, new techniques and new behaviors (see John Paul II, Redemptoris missio, 37), to identify what benefits and dangers this culture could present for African identity and values.

In order to achieve its objectives, the Faculty offers its students theoretical, practical and human training through its rich teaching, laboratories and professionalization studios, numerous workshops, seminars and conferences; A training program that aims to have its graduates carry out the following tasks:... [-]

In 1996, the Standing Committee of the Bishops of the Congo approved a new organization of studies at the Faculty of Theology, which came into force in October of the same year. The reform began with a review of the program of the Department of Theology and Humanities, whose initial twofold objective was the theological formation of religious and lay students who were not destined for the priestly life and the inculturation of the The gospel through the integration, in theological formation, of human sciences attentive to the milieu and cultural traditions.

Without abandoning this double concern, the Standing Committee of Bishops reaffirms that the Church needs the lay people trained in theology, and stresses that the formation of the latter must be the same as for the priests (except, of course, the Matters connected with the priestly ministry). There will be no special program either for the laity or for the priests. For all, he will be the same at all levels: Graduate, License, Diploma of Approfondies (DEA), Doctorate.... [-]