Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo (“Dissentire cum Ecclesia: Healthy and Unhealthy Dissent in the Context of Catholic Education”) examines the issue of how the Church should deal with dissenting views of theologians and professors in the university. While recognizing that an unhealthy dissent can be employed to weaken the faith of Christians and subvert the authority of the Church, the theologians’ exploration of alternative ways of understanding Christ’s teaching is essential for the development of doctrine in the Church and its appropriation to various pastoral contexts. St. Thomas Aquinas describes the Church magisterium as a collaboration between theologians who hold the cathedra magistralis and the bishops who exercise the cathedra pastoralis. – from the Editor’s Preface

