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In the Catholic Church, the vows of members of religious orders and congregations are regulated by canons 654-658 of the Code of Canon Law. These are public vows, meaning vows accepted by a superior in the name of the Church, [5] and they are usually of two durations: temporary, and, after a few years, final vows (permanent or "perpetual ...
The 1917 Code of Canon Law reserved the name "religious order" for institutes in which the vows were solemn, and used the term "religious congregation" or simply "congregation" for those with simple vows. The members of a religious order for men were called "regulars", those belonging to a religious congregation were simply "religious", a term ...
Another difference was that a professed religious of solemn vows lost the right to own property and the capacity to acquire temporal goods for themselves, but a professed religious of simple vows, while being prohibited by the vow of poverty from using and administering property, kept ownership and the right to acquire more, unless the ...
Any vow in Catholic religious life other than a solemn vow is a simple vow. [3] Even a vow accepted by a legitimate superior in the name of the Church (the definition of a "public vow") [4] is a simple vow if the Church has not granted it recognition as a solemn vow.
This is a glossary of terms used within the Catholic Church.Some terms used in everyday English have a different meaning in the context of the Catholic faith, including brother, confession, confirmation, exemption, faithful, father, ordinary, religious, sister, venerable, and vow.
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, [1] typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. [2] The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows [3] but live an active vocation of prayer and charitable ...
Religious groups need to reconsider how they interact with a society in which even the largest of them — Catholics, evangelicals — are now a spiritual minority. Paul Prather is pastor of ...
Historically, what are now called religious institutes were distinguished as either religious orders, whose members make solemn vows, or religious congregations, whose members make simple vows. Since the 1983 Code of Canon Law, only the term religious institute is used, [5] while the distinction between solemn and simple vows is still ...