Friday 4 May 2012

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FROM CLAUDE KAKULE SIRIWAYO,AA

                                                      

  A WORD FROM A FINALIST FROM EMMANUEL
                                           Claude Kakule Siriwayo,aa has just finished his Licentiate Studies                     in  Canon   Law at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. These are the acknowledgements from his Licentiate thesis in Canon Law.        

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


            I would like to thank very much all those who assisted me in one way or another in the writing of this thesis. In the first place, I thank the Almighty God for His constant love and care for me. I know that without His assistance I would not have achieved what I intended to do.
             I heartily appreciate and thank my superiors in the entire Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, and especially the provincial Superior Rev. Fr. Vincent KAMBERE KAGHANIRYO and his provincial council, the Assistant Provincial Superior and local Superior of Emmanuel House community in Nairobi Rev. Fr. Roger KASEREKA  SYAYIPUMA, the regional Superior of East Africa Rev. Fr. Protais KABILA KALONDO and his regional council, for making it possible for me to pursue Licentiate studies in canon law.
            To my supervisors Rev. Dr. Fabien LONEMA and Rev. Dr. Dieudonné NGONA (DRCongo), I owe much for their immediate, constant, committed, meticulous and judicious guidance throughout the writing of this thesis.  This work has come to its completion thanks to them.
My heartfelt gratitude goes to all my lecturers in the Institute of canon law at the Catholic University of East Africa [CUEA]: Rev. Dr. Martin OWOR (Uganda), Rev. Dr. Daniel NGURE (Kenya), Rev. Dr. Emmanuel JADA (South Sudan), Rev. Dr. Noelina NAKATO (Sr.)[ Uganda), Rev. Dr. Pius MALE (Uganda) and Rev. Dr. Raphael OBETIA (Uganda).
I also sincerely thank all my fellow canon law students, Fathers Joseph WARATHO (Kenya), Damien ERIPON (Kenya), John MAKOLA (Zambia), and Sister Edith TUMWESIGYE (Uganda) for the mutual support and enrichment. 
            I acknowledge the special contribution of Fathers KOMBI NGWESE and KAKULE MUSABINGO for providing me sufficient information about the Augustinians of the Assumption in the Province of Africa. My sincere thanks go also to all my Brothers and Sisters in the big Family of the Assumption and especially those in Emmanuel House community in Nairobi for assisting me in correcting the thesis and in providing resourceful information for its betterment. The same gratitude goes to Remmy KAMBOLE, Missionary of Africa from Zambia. He proofread this thesis.and made many valuable suggestions for improving it.   
                                    May God bless you all.
                                        
                                CLAUDE KAKULE SIRIWAYO, AA

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ABSTRACT OF THE LICENTIATE THESIS IN CANON LAW BY CLAUDE KAKULE SIRIWAYO,AA



ABSTRACT

The Separation of Members from the Religious Institutes according to Canons 684-704: A Case Study of the Religious Institute of the Augustinians of the Assumption in the African Province.
A Thesis Submitted to the Institute of CanonLawin Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Licentiate Degree in CanonLaw.

            One of the religious phenomena today is that many religious seek to leave their religious institutes either by transfer, departure or dismissal. This thesis aims at explaining that religious life is freely chosen by the members of a given institute. This thesis also explains why members abandon religious life and outlines the canonical procedures and the effects of the separation of religious from the institutes. On the one hand, the member is to remain perpetually in the institute. But for some reasons the institute can request a member to leave the institute. It is in this perspective that this thesis is a research on how separation may be avoided or how it can be initiated by the individual or by the institute. The purpose for going into this subject is to help members of religious institutes and especially those of the Augustinians of the Assumption to be aware of the mechanisms for avoiding separation from the religious institute.
The scope of this thesis goes as follows:  after treating the background of the Augustinians of the Assumption in the African Province, this thesis deals with the history and canonical status of separation of members in the Church’s tradition; then, it explains the types of separations of members from the religious institute as described in Canons 684-704 and, finally, it gives means of avoiding separation of members and recommendations.
             Superiors and individual religious are obliged to know and observe the universal Lawof the Church and the proper law of the institute in order to know the rights and obligations of religious members and of the institute especially during transfer, departure and dismissal.
                                               

                                               By Claude Kakule Siriwayo,aa