Father José Miguel Fraga Cardoso, alumnus of the Theology course at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, at the Braga Regional Center, to join the Roman Curia's Dicastery for Culture and Education for a period of five years.
The Dicastery for Culture and Education, one reads in Praedicate Evangelium, number 153, "works for the development of human values within the horizon of Christian anthropology, contributing to the full realization of the following of Jesus Christ. The Dicastery "is formed by the Section for Culture, dedicated to the promotion of culture, pastoral animation and the appreciation of cultural heritage, and the Section for Education, which develops the fundamental principles of education with reference to schools, higher institutes of studies, research of Catholics and ecclesiastics, and is competent for hierarchical appeals in such matters."
