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RENOVATIONIS CAUSAM

Instruction of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, on the appropriate renovation of the training and preparation of persons for living the religious life. While the immediate focus of the instruction was the religious life, properly so called, persons living other forms of a consecrated life of the counsels were also affected (January 6, 1969).