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Regular clergy, or just regulars, are
Latin: regula) of life, and are therefore also members of religious institutes. Secular clergy
are clerics who are not bound by a rule of life.
Terminology and history
The observance of the
canons who lived under the bishop according to the canonical regulations.[1]
There was question also of a "regula canonicorum", or "regula canonica", especially after the extension of the rule which
Bishop of Metz, had drawn up from the sacred canons (766).[1][2] And when the canons were divided into two classes in the eleventh century, it was natural to call those who added religious poverty to their common life regulars, and those who gave up the common life, seculars. The 821 Chronicle of St. Bertin mentions "sæculares canonici".[3][1] In fact as the monks were said to leave the world,[4][1] sometimes those persons who were neither clerics nor monks were called seculars, as at times were clerics not bound by the rule.[1]
Sometimes also the name "regulars" was applied to the
Clementines (25 Oct., 1317) but with the conjunction vel, which indicates the resemblance between them.[7][1]
From that time, while the word "
Society of Jesus were also regulars in the proper sense according to the Constitution "Ascendente" of Pope Gregory XIII. Before the publication of the Code of Canon Law of 1917, writers were not agreed on the question whether the religious of other orders can properly be called regulars before solemn profession, but it was agreed that novices of religious orders were regulars only in the wider meaning of the word.[1]
In the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the word "regulars" was officially defined as those who have made their vows in a "religion" (what in the 1983 Code is called a religious institute).[8]
The technical juridical term "regular" does not appear, as such, in the current 1983 Code of Canon Law, which does, however, use the phrase "canons regular".[9]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Vermeersch, Arthur (1913). "Regulars". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ cf. capitularies (n. 69 circa 810, n. 138 of 818, 819, ed. Alf. Boretii)
- Martène, Anecdot., III, 505.
- ^ Augustine of Hippo, Serm. 40 de div.
- ^ C. xix, q. 2, c. 2 and q. 3, c. 1.
- ^ t. XVI, in 6
- ^ Although another edition has et, the title of ch. x, c. 3 Clem. in the official edition reads "De statu monachorum, vel canonicorum regularium".
- ^ 1917 Code of Canon Law, canon 488, 7
- ^ Code of Canon Law, canon 613 §1
Further reading
- John F. X. Murphy (1913), "Clerks Regular", in The Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: Appleton.
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