Communities That Take A Fourth Vow...

[Caramelonion]

Poor Clare Colletines have a fourth vow of enclosure.

[EJames2]

The Jesuits, .[i]...cough cough..[/i]
"besides the three usual solemn vows of religion, [b]a fourth, of special obedience to the pope[/b] in the matter of missions, undertaking to go wherever they are sent, without even requiring money for the journey. They also make certain additional, but non-essential, simple vows, in the matter of poverty, and the refusal of external honours,([i]cough, cough..ahem[/i]) The professed of the four vows constitute the kernel of the Society;"
- from the Catholic Encyclopedia under Jesuit

Edited May 21, 2008 by EJames2