Explore: Societies Living In Common Without Vows (canon Law)

In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of the law in certain cases

In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the

institutes are societies in which their members, according to proper law, pronounce public vows, and lead a life as brothers or sisters in common. Secular institutes

The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental

bishops at Ecône, at the International Seminary of Saint Pius X, in violation of canon law. Lefebvre and the four other SSPX bishops individually incurred

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

forced, the state cannot act to end the marriage in the absence of an application by a spouse. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an annulment is properly

solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". As monastics, nuns living within an enclosure

whole church is used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1990) and the Code of Canon Law (1983). "Catholic Church" is also used in the documents of the

annulled, a vow of celibacy, lack of consent, or the couple being related within a prohibited degree of kinship. The original Catholic Canon law on the subject