THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY ' S Malloy elected to commission Will revise Vatican document

"The idea of this interim commission was to carry over the spirit and deliberations of this meeting into the next stage so that what we talked about wasn't lost in transition," Malloy said. Of the 15 members of the commission, three are from North America. Joining Malloy are Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University and Sister Sally Furay, vice-president and provost of the University of San Diego. "The Schema on Catholic Higher Education," as the document is called, was first proposed in 1985 by the Congregation for Catholic Education. According to Malloy, the document is "supposed to address the question of the role of Catholic higher education, the relationship between the institutions and the local bishop and national groups of bishops, the role of various component parts like the the theology department, or the way that science and technology are approached.'' After the document was proposed, it received critical reviews from American Catholic bishops. Malloy said that these earlier versions didn't properly assess the experience