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13 - Reform of the Religious Orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2023

Nelson H. Minnich
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Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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The Tridentine Decree on the religious life reflected long-standing ecclesial disaffection and aspirations for reform. The product of a lively conciliar debate, it was neither innovative nor theologically sophisticated but narrowly disciplinary. In the aftermath of the Council, several of its prescriptions concerning male religious went unheeded.

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Print publication year: 2023

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