New Communities

[Guest :: Aaron ::]

So I have a question. Does anybody have a canon law book or like a search engine or something about the rulings on the new communities in the Church that have men and women? Like brothers and sisters and lay families and temporary celibates and suchlike? I am curious what all the requirements/rulings are on what different classifications there are for religious communties.

Thanks!

[phatcatholic]

there are a couple sections in the Code of Canon Law that may have what you are looking for. here's the code:
[url="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_INDEX.HTM"]http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_INDEX.HTM[/url]

BOOK II, PART I, TITLE V is on "ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRIST'S FAITHFUL" (Cann. 298-329). its broken up into 4 chapters, starting with CHAPTER I: COMMON NORMS
[url="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P10.HTM"]http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P10.HTM[/url]

PART III in the same book, on INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE AND SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIFE, may be of help to you as well.