Sustainable Catholic Schools

The Eötvös József Research Centre (EJRC) of the Ludovika University of Public Service (LUPS), and the Saint Pope John-Paul II Research Centre of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) held a conference entitled Sustainable Catholic Schools, The Question of Sustainability of Catholic Church Schools in the Past at Ludovika Campus on 17 April 2024.

The speakers of the conference examined the fundamental aspects of the history of education in Hungary from the points of view of history, law and society: how these institutions were created; how their maintenance was managed; how and what were taught in these institutions and by whom. What was the state’s relationship with the largest body maintaining schools, i.e., the Catholic Church? What sort of legal institutional system developed around Hungarian schools during the centuries? In his conference-presentation – entitled Town Schools, Country Monasteries – our archivist, Boros Zoltán examined the questions of economic sustainability of the Benedictine Secondary Schools in the first half of the 19th century.

The programme-reports are available on the NKE and PPKE home-pages. The conference’s programme can be read here: