The Vicariate of the Orient in the threshold of the union of the Augustinian Provinces in Spain

The article is about methods of restructuring of governance in an Institute of Consecrated Life. The study is set in the context of the Order of the St. Augustine. It highlights methods applicable and proposed by the Code of Canon Law for religious institutes namely; suppression, union, merger, absorption and creation of new provinces as means of restructuring of religious institutes. The study is set in the context of the Unión de las Provincias Españolas, by which Augustinian Provinces in Spain are in the process of uniting and becoming one province. The study considers largely Filipino Augustinian Religious in the Vice-Province of the Vicariate of the Orient under the jurisdiction of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines having its sede in Spain.

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“Person” in the Law of Religious [Institutes]

Philosophy and Canon Law ◽

10.31261/pacl.2021.07.2.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Damián Němec

Keyword(s):

Canon Law ◽

Religious Life ◽

Human Person ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Religious Congregations ◽

Code Of Canon Law ◽

Consecrated Life ◽

Religious Institutes ◽

The Law ◽

The Government

The emphasis on the human person and his dignity was significantly applied in the new regulation of the law of consecrated life, which is dealt with in the new Code of Canon Law of 1983 in integrum compared to the previous Code of Canon Law of 1917. This paper describes only some of the changes in the law of religious institutes in the Latin Church.The first section regards mainly the person who has taken religious vows and focuses on the question of religious vows as the basis of religious life. It also discusses confessors viewed as a necessary tool for the renewal of religious life as well as modifications in the concept of poverty as a very important element of religious life. The second section focuses on the government of religious institutes, discussing the strengthened position of internal superiors over external superiors in religious congregations, the strengthened position of the superior of monasteries of nuns, and the extended powers of superiors on release from a religious institute due to illegitimate absence from a religious house.As this is in some cases a very recent legal regulation, the author does not hesitate to express his critical observations.

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