LAY RELIGIOUS BROTHERS AS SUPERIORS IN CLERICAL RELIGIOUS INSTITUTES OF PONTIFICAL RIGHT
LAY RELIGIOUS BROTHERS AS SUPERIORS IN CLERICAL RELIGIOUS INSTITUTES OF PONTIFICAL RIGHT

Summary/Abstract: Having analysed the historical debates concerning the nature of the power enjoyed byall superiors in religious institutes described in can. 596 § 1, this article, which is a continuation ofthe first one, explores the modern post 1983 Code debated on the nature of this power and the questionof lay religious superiors in clerical institutes of pontifical right and how they exercise their powers.The article begins by analysing the post-Vatican Developments in religious life and governance ofclerical religious institutes of pontifical right where religious are members too. It analyses the newdevelopments highlighted by the decree instituta clericalia, and the beautiful developments introducedby Pope Francis in the derogation of the provisions of can. 588 § 2 of the 1983 Code, by opening upthe space for brothers to be elected and be appointed as superiors in these institutes at all levels ofgovernance. It ends by giving a critical analysis into the nature of power enjoyed by these religiousbrothers promoted to the office of superiors in these institutes, together with the upcoming questionsof juridical nature which concern their acts of administration and the power with which they producethese singular acts of administrative nature.

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