Procedural Handbook for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

This handy resource is a revision and update of the 2001 original text of the same name. Like the original, it addresses a variety of issues; the specific issue determines the content and outline of any given chapter. The topics include governance, new institutes, mergers and unions, commissaries, admission of candidates, formation, rights and obligations, institute-wide policies, apostolates, temporal goods, judicial processes, and lay and clerical status of members. The subject matter and the contributors determined the content of a chapter. The handbook is intended for non-canonists, but it does provide some content that is like a commentary in order to give some background for readers not versed in the law.