Obowiązek życia w domu zakonnym a możliwość tymczasowego przebywania poza wspólnotą w wybranych dokumentach Kościoła i Kodeksie Prawa Kanonicznego z 1983 roku
The Obligation of Living in the Religious House and the Possibility of a Temporary Staying Outside of the Community in Selected Documents of the Church and the 1983 Code of Canon Law

Summary/Abstract: This article sets out the circumstances, in which religious may temporarily stay outside the religious community, despite his duty to live in a religious house. The first point shows, how this issue was resolved in the religious rules in the first centuries of the Church. The second section presents the church documents from Vatican Council II to the 1983, in which this topic was moved. The last point indicates the provisions, which in this issue contains the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The conducted analyzes showed that in certain circumstances the law allows to religious to receive a permission to reside outside the religious house, despite his duty to staying in the community. It is a sign of legislator of the Church’s wisdom, for which the most important objective of a law is spiritual profit of souls.

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