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
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