Religious Life Project

Legacy Trusts - This webcast explores the establishment of a charitable trust to ensure the care of members and the legacy of a religious community. (w7477)

Legacy Trusts

Completion and Legacy - This webcast explores the issues that arise as a religious institute enters into its final era, a difficult and grace-filled moment. A clear understanding of the challenges and concerns of completion and legacy can help a community make plans and live this moment with integrity and peace. (La0131)

Completion and Legacy

Issues in Vocation and Formation - This webcast explores the canonical, pastoral and practical issues associated with screening and accepting applicants for religious life and accepting them into the formation program. (La0372)

Issues in Vocation and Formation

This webcast explores issues of property and control of corporations in civil and canon law. In planning and in amending documents, it is important to ensure that ownership and control are clearly defined. (La0249)

Ownership and Control in Civil and Canon Law

Commissaries and Collaboration - This webcast explores the role of the commissary and the opportunities for collaboration among institutes on matters of sponsorship, eldercare, administration and canonical leadership.(La0447)

Commissaries and Collaboration

Canonical Leadership and Collaborative Governance - This webcast explores the role of the commissary and the opportunities for collaboration among institutes on matters of sponsorship, eldercare, administration, and canonical leadership. (L8482)

Canonical Leadership and Collaborative Governance

Canon Law Institute Series: This series of webcasts will introduce the participant to Canon Law, the rules that govern church order and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. While it will touch matters of Religious Life, it is intended to be a more broad-based introduction to Canon Law for those who work for Religious Institutes, for other Church ministries, and for those who would like to deepen their understanding of Church Law.

Canon Law Institute Series

The Vow of Obedience in Civil and Canon Law - The vow of obedience takes religious into the heart of the mystery of Christ that we celebrate in this Paschal season. In faith and love, we enter in a special way into the following of Christ, obedient to death. Undertaken in this spirit, each institute comes to an understanding and practice of the vow that develops over time. This webcast explores the legal issues raised by the vow. (L4274)

The Vow of Obedience in Civil and Canon Law

The Vow of Poverty in Civil and Canon Law - The vow of poverty has many dimensions: simplicity, solidarity, sustainability, interdependence. This webcast explores the legal issues raised by the vow. (L3712)

The Vow of Poverty in Civil and Canon Law

This webcast will examine records of religious institutes and their members. Institutes are challenged to develop policies and procedures dealing with the broad scope of documents that are received and produced by the institute. A related issue is the management of archives that provide the accumulated records of an individual or institution that merit preservation because of their possible subsequent value to the originating source for legal, administrative, or personal reasons. (L9360)

Records Management and Archives

In the exercise of authority, leadership is exercised in collaboration with church authorities external to the institute, and in collaboration with councils and others within the institute. This webcast will examine the requirements of canon law, which may be supplemented by requirements in an institute's own proper law. (L9170)

Governance, Permissions, Advice, and Consent

This webcast will examine collaborative structures co-sponsored by religious institutes to assist aging religious communities with their needs for leadership and administration. It will examine the role of individuals and communities asked to assist in this ministry. (La0131)

Collaborative Governance in Religious Institutes

This webcast explores ministry sponsorship by religious communities and possible options for sponsorship going forward, including a sponsorship network, and a ministerial public juridic person. a5113

Sponsorship Options

Many religious institutes are exploring the ways in which their sponsored ministries will need to transition in the coming years to ensure continuity of mission and charism. This webcast explores the issues and options for communities. (L3679)

Transitioning Sponsorship

Forming a public juridic person as a successor sponsor for the separately incorporated ministries of religious institutes. (L7382)

Ministerial Public Juridic Persons

Exploring, forming, and implementing a ministerial public juridic person as a successor sponsor for the educational ministries of religious institutes. (La1381)

Entrusting Educational Ministries to MPJPs

This webcast will explore transitioning leadership. It will discuss transition between leadership teams and during a merger, and will focus on those communities that no longer have members of their own institute able to provide canonical governance and must be led by someone outside the institute. (L7291)

Transitioning Leadership

This webcast discusses the various issues in screening and incorporating new members. New members are diverse in age, education, experience, culture and ethnicity. For this reason flexibility practices and policies is necessary. (L62

Legal Issues for New Members

This four-part webcast series examines those civil structures used by religious institutes to carry out their life and work in the civil sphere. (L1196)

Civil Structures of Religious Institutes

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