The other congregations are those for the Oriental Churches, for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, for the Causes of Saints, for the Evangelization of Peoples, for the Clergy, for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, for Catholic Education, and for Bishops.
The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life is expected to issue an Instruction on the new norms within the next few months.
The Vatican agency is known as the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
December 2008: The Vatican's office that oversees religious orders — the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life — launches a parallel review of all women's orders in the U.S. because of reports about "a certain secularist mentality that has spread among these religious families, perhaps even a certain 'feminist spirit.'".
In a statement yesterday from its provincial headquarters in Baltimore, Sister Gramick's order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, said that another Vatican body, the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Faith, recently clarified the original directive.
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Therefore, dedicating one's life to God in an association or in a movement and dedicating one's life to God in an institute of consecrated life cannot be considered the same, even if there are many common aspects.
Two communitarian possibilities exist in order to realize this important Christian vocation: the faithful may join an association or one of the new ecclesial movements, or they may enter an institute of consecrated life.
In Traverse City, Mich., which is at the center of five rural counties, a local group instituted a quality of life index by surveying 2,000 residents about what they considered important.
Cardinal Pell was a member of the Congregation of Bishops, the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the Congregation for the Institutes of the Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation.
