By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Massimo Faggioli teaches in the theology department at Villanova… Villanova is—or claims to be—a Catholic university… Those who teach in theology departments at Catholic universities are obliged to obtain the mandatum from the diocesan bishop… “The mandatum is fundamentally an acknowledgment by church authority that a Catholic professor of a theological discipline is teaching within the full communion of the Catholic Church.”.. Villanova is in the Philadelphia archdiocese, which is led by Archbishop Charles Chaput… Faggioli suggested that Archbishop Chaput is schismatic… Now isn’t this an interesting situation?