Access to Consecrated Life for People With Disabilities: Canonical Aspects, Community and Personal Issues, and Challenges
Among different possible ways of sanctification, the Roman Catholic Church proposes consecrated life to the faithful: devoting life to God, committing oneself to follow Christ with Holy Spirit's help. Can a Catholic person with disabilities be accepted into an institute of consecrated life? The...
| Published in: | Journal of religion, disability & health |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2013
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Journal of religion, disability & health
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Canon Law
B Project B Consecrated Life |
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| Summary: | Among different possible ways of sanctification, the Roman Catholic Church proposes consecrated life to the faithful: devoting life to God, committing oneself to follow Christ with Holy Spirit's help. Can a Catholic person with disabilities be accepted into an institute of consecrated life? The present code of Canon Law requires sufficient healthy and mature candidates. As every institute has its own rules, these requirements may be more or less strict. Finally, every disability is different and entails specific constraints for these persons and their entourage. Some faithful persons with disabilities never find a religious institute, whereas others are welcomed with their disability. At these welcoming institutes, the disability is not taken as a problem to solve, but instead as a community project. It is possible for people with disabilities in standard institutes and also in places especially founded to allow people with disabilities—mental included—to devote their life to the Lord. They can live in community with able-bodied people. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15228967.2013.752924 |