Pontifical Lateran University
The university also hosts the central session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.[1] In 1981 Pope John Paul II founded, in the university, the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, which has the right to confer academic degrees.Pope Francis modified its mission in September 2017, renaming it the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.In 2018 Vincenzo Buonomo, a professor of international law and a consultant to the Holy See since the 1980s, was appointed rector of the Pontifical Lateran University by Pope Francis.In October 2021 Pope Francis established an interdisciplinary study cycle on Ecology and the Environment with a UNESCO chair on "the future of education for sustainability".A new building for the housing of the library and reading room was built and officially inaugurated by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 October 2007.
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