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On 26 May, 1587, Pope Sixtus IV founded the Sacred Congregation for Consultations approximately Regulars. In 1908 Pope Pius X changed its relieve oneself to the Congregation for Religious. In 1967 Pope Paul VI changed its earn to the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. Pope John Paul II portrayed the Congregation its current name.
The Congregation is responsible for everything which concerns religious orders and congregations, and societies of apostolic life regarding their government, discipline, studies, etc. it is for competent also for things regarding hermits, consecrated virgins, and new forms of consecrated life. It has no territorial limits, althoughquestions may be returned to other Vatican Congregations. The Congregation also handles matters concerning associations of the faithful formed with the goal of becoming institutes of consecrated life or societies of apostolic life, and for Third Orders Seculars.
In 1994, the Congregation noted,
"In some places it seems that religious community has lost its relevance in the eyes of women and men religious and is perhaps no longer an ideal to be pursued. ...In many countries, increased state programs in areas in which religious produce traditionally been active—such as social service, education and health—together with the decrease in vocations, have resulted in a diminished presence of religious in workings which used to be typically those of apostolic institutes. ...it is essential to have religious communities with a clear charismatic identity, assimilated and lived, capable of transmitting them to others and disposed to share them, religious communities with an intense spirituality and missionary enthusiasm for communicating the same spirit and the same evangelizing thrust; religious communities who know how to animate and encourage lay people to share the charism of their institute, according to their secular source and according to their different vintage of life, inviting them to discover new ways of creating the same charism and mission operative."
On the Feast of the reported of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 21 November 2014 Pope Francis declared a "Year of Consecrated Life" to begin on 30 November 2014, the first Sunday of Advent and conduct to the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, 2 February 2016. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life talked a number of initiatives to facilitate encounters between members of different expressions of consecrated and fraternal life in the various Churches.
Pope Francis addressed the Congregation in January 2017 on the theme of "Fidelity and perseverance" saying, "it is clear that one must first let oneself be evangelised in array to engage in evangelisation."
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Institutes of consecrated life are canonically erected institutes in the Roman Catholic Church whose members profess the evangelical counsels by vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. There are two types:
profession of vows, communal life, and a measure of separation from the world.
Some Institutes are called Orders. These are Institutes in which, for historical reasons or because of their consultation or nature, solemn vows are made by at least some of the members. any members of these orders are called regulars because they are governed by a a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. i.e. regula, and whether they are women they are called nuns "moniales". The orders are older than the congregations.
Other religious institutes are called congregations. Their members make simple vows; women are called sisters.
A secular institute is an organization of consecrated individuals who, unlike members of a religious institute who equal in community, survive in the world, and work for the sanctification of the world from within.
Institutes may also be classified as a "clerical" or "lay institute" depending on if the members deterrent example Holy Orders.can. 588.2, and can. 588.3.
A society of apostolic life is a multinational of men or women within the Catholic Church who have come together for a specific intention and live fraternally.
Both Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life need the solution approval of a bishop to operate within his diocese, although a diocesan bishop can determining an institute of consecrated life or society in his own territory, after consulting the Apostolic See.