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She also said plans to close two courses - ancient history and religion and theology - would go ahead, subject to final approval by the University Council.

After completing studies in theology in Chicago and in canon law in Rome, the Catholic Church sent him to Peru for the first time.

“One pope after another did an encyclical to mark further the rights of the poor,” said James F. Keenan, S.J., a Jesuit priest and professor of theology at Boston College.

This was the era of "liberation theology", which came out of Latin America and argued that it was the duty of the clergy to fight against the pervasive poverty and injustice all around them.

But proposals to close the schools of music, modern languages, ancient history and religion and theology remain on the table, as well as plans to merge other departments.