UCAM offers a course that highlights the figure of women in the Church
‘Consecrated Virginity' is the name of this training, a micro-credential, which will be given in online and blended-learning mode, with the participation of bishops, cardinals, experts and several members of the Commission on Consecrated Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference as lecturers
This October UCAM will launch the micro-credential degree 'Consecrated Virginity' which, taught in both online and blended-learning mode, aims to deepen the anthropological, theological and canonical aspects of the figure of women, to know and value the consecrated life, as well as to help in vocational discernment.
In this training, directed by Antonio Alcaraz, UCAM vice-rector of University Outreach, Cardinals Cristóbal Romero, archbishop of Rabat; Pedro Ricardo Barreto, president of the Episcopal Conference of the Amazon, Diego Rafael Padrón, Archbishop Emeritus of Cumaná, and Cardinal Aquilino Bocos, as well as the Bishop of León, Luis Ángel de las Heras, President of the Commission for Consecrated Life in the Episcopal Conference, and the Bishop of Cartagena, José Manuel Lorca.
Antonio Alcaraz emphasises that ‘with this training we want to highlight and promote, in the sphere of synodality (bishops, priests, lay people, consecrated persons and a representation of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople) the importance of consecrated life in the Church, as well as the mission it carries out in society, paying special attention to the figure of women in the history of salvation’.
This micro-credential also offers its students the possibility of obtaining scholarships to do it.