The Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church, thanks to its Baccalaureate Cycle and the specialized Academic Programs carried out by its two Departments of Church History and Cultural Heritage of the Church, prepares students for the use of scientific investigation methods and tools, as well as the acquisition of a specific teaching methodology.

He makes his own the teaching of Benedict XVI, who in his speech at the Gregorian on 3 November 2006 recalled how "the toil of study and teaching, in order to make sense in relation to the Kingdom of God, must be sustained by the theological virtues", in the breath proper to the academic and formative tradition of the Society of Jesus.