Major Superior - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Fri, 20 May 2022 00:02:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Major Superior - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis changes rules for major superiors of religious orders https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/05/19/pope-francis-changes-rules-for-major-superiors-of-religious-orders/ Thu, 19 May 2022 07:55:28 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=147179 Pope Francis has changed the Church's regulations to allow religious brothers who are not priests to lead their religious communities with Vatican permission. In a "rescriptum ex audientia" issued May 18, the pope said that the Vatican congregation overseeing religious orders can, in individual cases and at its own discretion, grant permission for non-priest religious Read more

Pope Francis changes rules for major superiors of religious orders... Read more]]> Pope Francis has changed the Church's regulations to allow religious brothers who are not priests to lead their religious communities with Vatican permission.

In a "rescriptum ex audientia" issued May 18, the pope said that the Vatican congregation overseeing religious orders can, in individual cases and at its own discretion, grant permission for non-priest religious members to assume the role of major superior.

The change includes the derogation of the second paragraph of canon 588 in the Code of Canon Law, which says that clerical institutes are under the direction of ordained priests.

Pope Francis said that the council of an institute of consecrated life, or a society of apostolic life of pontifical rite, may now nominate or elect a "non-cleric member" as major superior after receiving written permission from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

The congregation, the rescriptum said, "reserves the right to evaluate the individual case and the reasons given by the Supreme Moderator or the General Chapter."

A non-cleric member can be nominated as a local superior without the Vatican's permission. Continue reading

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