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rpannier

(24,586 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 04:41 AM Apr 2017

Franciscan superiors ask pope to allow brothers to be elected leaders

ROME - The superiors of the four main branches of the Franciscan friars formally asked Pope Francis for permission to allow their communities to elect brothers to positions of leadership in their communities.

“With us Pope Francis is looking at the possibilities for moving this project forward,” Father Michael Perry, minister general of the Friars Minor, told Vatican Radio. “We left a letter as a formal request for a dispensation” from canon law requirements that in most religious orders with both priests and brothers only a priest can be elected to the top leadership offices.

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The rules governing eligibility for leadership in religious orders with a strong mix of brothers and priests - especially if those orders, like the Franciscans, were founded without distinction between lay and ordained - has been going on since the Second Vatican Council.

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Still, for orders like the Franciscans in which most members are priests, the Vatican has insisted that ordination is a requisite for “the power of governance.” It has vetoed the election of brothers as superiors of orders that have more priests than brothers as members, even when the order’s constitutions do not insist the superior be a priest.

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https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2017/04/11/franciscan-superiors-ask-pope-allow-brothers-elected-leaders/

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Franciscan superiors ask pope to allow brothers to be elected leaders (Original Post) rpannier Apr 2017 OP
If they want to do that, no tax exemptions still_one Apr 2017 #1
They want to elect Brothers as the leaders of their orders rpannier Apr 2017 #2
Appreciate setting me straight. I thought when they mentioned local communities they were referring still_one Apr 2017 #3
No you're not rpannier Apr 2017 #4
thanks still_one Apr 2017 #5
Francis of Assisi was not a priest Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2017 #6

rpannier

(24,586 posts)
2. They want to elect Brothers as the leaders of their orders
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 05:30 AM
Apr 2017

As of now, the Vatican has sway over the process

still_one

(96,779 posts)
3. Appreciate setting me straight. I thought when they mentioned local communities they were referring
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 06:18 AM
Apr 2017

to local public office

I am an idiot

rpannier

(24,586 posts)
4. No you're not
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 11:07 PM
Apr 2017

That's what I first thought it was going to be about
It's logical given the headline

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
6. Francis of Assisi was not a priest
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 02:54 PM
Apr 2017

He may have been a deacon, the history is unclear. But under the current rules, he could not be had of the Franciscans.

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