Pregledni rad
Exemption and Just Autonomy of Consecrated Life
Jure Brkan
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Sažetak
In this article the author has elaborated two canons of Code of Canon Law of 1983: canon 586, § 1-2, and canon 591. The article points out that the legislator, in processing canon 591 dealing with exemption, possessed the source materials of ecclesiastical legislation, Code of 1917, documents of II Vatican Council and documents after the Council. It is about the old institute of exemption confirmed by the legislator in the light of II Vatican Council in Code of 1983. Pope, by reason of his primacy over the universal Church, can exempt institutes of consecrated life from the governance of local ordinaries and subject them either to himself alone or to another ecclesiastical authority, for the good of institutes and the need of the apostolate. Another institute the author is writing about is the institute of a just autonomy of life – iusta autonomia vitae – (586, § 1). This institute is a novelty compared to the old legislation; its source materials are only the documents of II Vatican Council and documents after the Council. A just autonomy of life is acknowledged for individual institutes by which they possess their own governance and especially their own discipline in order to preserve their own patrimony intact: the nature, purpose, spirit and character of an institute as well as its sound traditions (canon 578). The institutes of exemption and of just autonomy of life are the demands of the Church of our time, which accepts the institutes of consecrated life as a divine gift to the Church. Members of institutes of consecrated life should obey the Pope in accordance with the vow of obedience, and respect the local ordinaries inasmuch as they represent apostles and they are bound to follow them with Christian obedience (canon 212, § 1) and also obey them in accordance with general and special church norms observing the exemption and just autonomy of life.
Ključne riječi
institutes of consecrated life; particular Churches; local ordinaries; pope; exemption; just autonomy of life
Hrčak ID:
127857
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Datum izdavanja:
15.7.2014.
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