“Pope has decreed that non-ordained brothers can, with Vatican approval, become provincial superiors/superiors general of religious communities that include ordained priests...This is a derogation from canon 588 in CIC, which states that a clerical institute "is under the direction of clerics"."
“No doubt, the pope decided to publish his new constitution without giving any prior notice as a way to counter this resistance. Even inside the Vatican itself, only a few officials knew beforehand of the document's release.”
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“Lay brothers” can now head clerical religious orders
"There came a king who knew not Joseph"
