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Catholic higher education needs leaders and Canadian Catholic universities are having trouble finding them.

鈥淚f you don鈥檛 have the kind of leadership you need you get stasis. Institutions tread water. You get issues of morale. People leave,鈥� said St. Joseph鱿鱼视频app College president Fr. Tim Scott.

In Edmonton, where St. Joseph鱿鱼视频app is a Catholic college affiliated with the University of Alberta, all is well. They鈥檝e got a youthful Basilian priest in Scott who is both a legitimate academic and a man trained for Catholic leadership. But Scott knows his institution is just one or two vacancies away from the kind of desperate search now on at St. Michael鱿鱼视频app and Saint Paul.

鈥淭he pool for Catholic leadership, Catholic academic leadership, is not as deep as it is for secular leadership,鈥� Scott said.

That鱿鱼视频app because the job requirements are a long list of 鈥渕ust-haves.鈥�

鈥淵ou have all the normal requirements of the academy in terms of the academic performance of your institution and providing internal institutional leadership,鈥� said Scott. 鈥淧lus you also have to deal with relations with the local Catholic Church, and indeed with the national council of bishops and the Holy See through the requirements of Ex Corde Ecclesia.  It鱿鱼视频app a double requirement. You鈥檝e got to keep your eye on both.鈥�

Having a priest whose basic formation is spiritual and theological makes the job easier, and that used to be the norm. Corpus Christi College principal Dave Sylvester knows those days are mostly gone.

鈥淲hen they were walking around with collars or habits then you didn鈥檛 have to worry about mission, because it was embodied in the person walking the halls,鈥� said Sylvester. 鈥淎nd they came not only with an academic formation, but they came with a theological and spiritual formation.鈥�

As he works toward opening the first Catholic university in Vancouver 鈥� through a merger of the old Basilian graduate theological college of St. Mark鱿鱼视频app and his own tiny liberal arts college with 200 undergraduates 鈥� Sylvester has had to think a lot about what it takes to live up to the Catholic name of a Catholic university.

鈥淚t requires, frankly, a commitment to what it鱿鱼视频app all about. But it鱿鱼视频app not impossible,鈥� Sylvester said.

One thing Sylvester is convinced of is that Ex Corde Ecclesia, the Vatican鱿鱼视频app apostolic constitution for Catholic higher learning, is not a barrier to doing the job right. The 18-year-old document remains controversial at many American Catholic colleges, where scholars have accused the Vatican of failing to understand both the importance and the nature of academic freedom. Sylvester sees Ex Corde as a strong endorsement of academic freedom.

鈥淚f you read Ex Corde, it is incredibly rich and incredibly affirming of what Catholic education should be about,鈥� he said.

Pressure on Catholic college presidents and rectors to get Ex Corde right is not the end of the long list of requirements.

鈥淧residents and increasingly deans are spending more and more of their time fund-raising. It just goes with the job right now,鈥� said Scott. 鈥淚t adds a further wrinkle to the job description.鈥�

Sylvester calls it the art of 鈥渓osing at golf.鈥�

Sylvester and Scott agree that the problem is not finding the money to pay highly qualified individuals to do a very demanding job.

鈥淵ou can generally find the money. What you can鈥檛 find is the staff,鈥� said Scott. 鈥淭o find the right person for any job 鈥� to do anything 鈥� is difficult,鈥� Scott said.

Though it can be made to sound like an impossible task, the good news is that it鱿鱼视频app a great job, said Sylvester. While people at secular institutions may find themselves checking their most basic beliefs and values at the office door, Catholic colleges demand the passions that flow from an intellectual life grounded in a spiritual life.

鈥淚 would hope that Catholic educational communities can be places where people don鈥檛 live a bifurcated life,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat they can marry the academic and intellectual side with their faith side, and actually build community. That isn鈥檛 registered on a pay cheque.鈥�