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Pope authorizes non-clerics to be major superiors in certain cases

May 19, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: With the Pope’s approval, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated and Societies of Apostolic Life has issued an Italian-language document outlining potential dispensations from Canon 588 §2.

The dispensations would permit a religious brother who belongs to a male religious institute of priests and brothers to become a superior in certain circumstances.

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