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Catholic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the teaching, life and culture of the Catholic Church. [1]

A number of Catholic universities started offering programs in Catholic studies as a response to Pope John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Ex corde Ecclesiae . [1] Such universities include Ave Maria University, [2] DePaul University, [3] Georgetown University, [4] Loyola University Chicago, [5] and the University of Mary. [6] The University of St. Thomas has a specialist Center for Catholic Studies, which was founded in 1992.

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