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How Are Religious Institutes Obliged to Support Members Who Leave?
Q: My work includes much interaction with women religious. Is there any guidance in canon law that provides for a religious who professed vows with their institute and then had to leave? I thought that canon law required a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged brother, canon law, Catholic, indult of departure, perpetual vows, religious, religious institute, sister
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Leaving a Novice in Limbo
Q: Hello, I am a novice in [a religious institute in Rome]…. I have been a novice for ten years, and keep waiting for the novice master to decide that I can take my vows, but the time always gets … Continue reading
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Tagged canon law, Catholic, novice, novitiate, religious institute
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Founding New Religious Institutes: Pope Francis Changes the Law (Episcopal Authority, Part II)
Q: A group of us Catholics in our diocese have a lawfully erected lay institute that’s now almost 15 years old … [and] from the beginning it was our understanding that if it prospers, it might later be formed into … Continue reading
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Tagged canon law, Catholic, diocesan right, pontifical right, Pope Francis, religious institute
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What Happens When a Religious Who’s Vowed Poverty Becomes a Bishop?
Q: As for religious order priests or bishops, who normally take the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, how does ordination to the episcopate change the requirement that they observe their vows? E.g., a Franciscan who is vowed … Continue reading
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Tagged bishop, canon law, Catholic, obedience, priest, religious institute, vow of poverty
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Do Sisters Have to Wear Their Habits?
Q: When I was a child in Catholic school, the nuns all wore full habits which reached all the way down to the floor. Nowadays we’re lucky if they’ll even wear a cross that identifies them as a nun and … Continue reading
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Tagged canon law, Catholic, habit, nun, religious institute, sister
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