Pope John Paul II, freedom, and constitutional law

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Pope John Paul II, freedom, and constitutional
law
Article from:Ave Maria Law Review | Article date:September 22, 2007



INTRODUCTION


This is an important conference in the history of the law school. (1) The thought of Pope John Paul II
was extremely important in the formation of the Ave Maria School of Law. Dean Bernard Dobranski
and other law school leaders were involved in the discussions of Ex Corde Ecclesiae (2) and the
nature of Catholic higher education that took place throughout the 1990s. (3) Pope John Paul II's
encyclicals in the 1990s, particularly Centesimus Annus, (4) Veritatis Splendor, (5) Evangelium
Vitae, (6) and Fides