The research and studies concentrate on the Revelation in the context of the most important questions asked by man so that the results can be shared with others. In order to meet this challenge, the Faculty works out the theoretical foundations of dialogue with other Churches, religions and non-believers. On the other hand, reflection is taken up on family and its problems, and preparation is offered for giving assistance to the most needy.
The theological field of study holds the Certificate in Education Quality (No 6/2005) issued by the Conference of the Rectors of the Polish Universities in recognition of its high education quality.
The Faculty is member of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC). Together with the Jagellonian University, it participated in the realization of the programme: TEMPUS (JEP 09639/95): Student Mobility for the Study of Religious Interaction Christianity - Judaism - Islam, which concluded in 1998. Fourteen students of the Faculty took part in a student exchange (staying at the Universities of Heidelberg and Udine), and four students from universities abroad studied at our Faculty for two semesters. Recently, international agreements have been signed concerning closer cooperation within ERASMUS Programme.
The Faculty cooperates with scholarly centres of Cracow - the Jagellonian University, and ecclesial and secular higher schools. This cooperation consists in exchange of professors and students (students of the Jagellonian University attending the lectures at the Faculty of Theology, mainly in religiology, and students of the Faculty of Theology attending monographic lectures at the Jagellonian University), and undertaking common research initiatives.
The Faculty cooperates with all church and state academies in Poland and abroad in the field of education, scholarly research, organizing congresses, symposia, and scholarly sessions.
The Academy is involved in cooperation with several universities abroad organizing exchanges of students and guest lectures by foreign professors. These are: the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany), the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (Hungary), the University of Graz (Austria), and the University of Presow and the Catholic University of Ruzomberok (Slovakia).
The intense cooperation with the Catholic Theology Faculty at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is based on a regular yearly exchange of professors and students which has been undertaken for 25 years. The RUB professors come to the UPJPII in May, while the UPJPII professors go to Bochum in automn. The dialogue of the faculties focuses on contemporary philosophical and theological issues and the variety of Christian experience in the different cultures. It aims at knowing each other and mutual sharing of the heritage of the parties' culture and scholarship, and at search for community in the spirit of the Church's universality and common European integration.
The Faculty professors lecture in Lvov and Gródek, at Podole, regularly. They also attend scholarly conferences at the universities of Presow, Rużomberok and Nitra in Slovakia. Our Faculty admits students from the Ukraine, Slovakia and Belorussia.
The Council of our Faculty conferred the degree of honoris causa doctor to the following: Fr Prof. Hermann-Joseph Pottmeyer from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk from Prague, Cardinal Audrys Jozausas Bačkis from Vilnius, Hanna Suchocka - the Ambassador of the Polish Republic at the Holy See, Cardinal Marian Jaworski - ex-Rector of the PAT in Cracow and former metropolitan of Lvov, and Carl A. Anderson - the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
The Faculty publishes its books at the Scholarly Publishing House of the Ponitifical Academy of Theology. In order to obtain a doctoral degree, one should publish 100 issues of one's doctoral dissertation or its extract of at least 50 pages. The Faculty has its own periodical, Polonia Sacra, which comes out twice a year.
The scholarly symposia and sessions organized by the Chairs and Specialities of the Faculty every year are attended by theologians from Poland and the whole world. These meetings aim at the development of theological branches, at quest for new interpretations and justifications of the doctrine of faith, search for answers to most urgents questions. There is a big interest in the sessions devoted to the issues of ecumenism and dialogue, theology of liturgy, fundamental theology, moral theology, ecology, the role of the Church in the contemporary world.
