Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Code of Canon Law of 1917 was dedicated to the matters related to religious orders in Book II, part II, canons: 487–681. An important issue is providing the definition of the religious state by the ecclesiastical legislator. The Code defines it as a stable manner of living in common approved by the Church, by which the faithful, want not only to keep the commandments common to all, but they also want, through a public vow, to strive for perfection by following the evangelical counsels of obedience, chastity and poverty and by living in common and observing the statutes under a legitimate superior. This paper addresses the key issues of the life of religious, regulated by the law contained in the 1917 Code. Therefore, there will be a discussion of religious’ superiors, candidates for a religious order, obligations of religious, and finally, of issues related to leaving and dismissal from a religious order.
Source: Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne
DOI: 10.15633/tst.43202
Author: Robert Kantor
Institution: Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409158482