Access to Consecrated Life for People With Disabilities: Canonical Aspects, Community and Personal Issues, and Challenges

Autor: Anne Buyssechaert
Přispěvatelé: Politique, Religion, Institutions et Sociétés : Mutations Européennes - Société, Droit et Religion en Europe (PRISME-SDRE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Politique, Religion, Institutions et Sociétés : Mutations Européennes - Groupe de Sociologie Politique Européenne (PRISME-GSPE), Politique, religion, institutions et sociétés : Mutations européennes (PRISME), Université Robert Schuman - Strasbourg III-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Droit, religion, entreprise et société (DRES), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-L'europe en mutation : histoire, droit, économie et identités culturelles, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Religion, Disability and Health
Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2013, 17 (1), pp.27-41. ⟨10.1080/15228967.2013.752924⟩
ISSN: 1522-9122
1522-8967
DOI: 10.1080/15228967.2013.752924
Popis: Among different possible ways of sanctification, the Roman Catholic Church proposes consecrated life to the faithful: devoting life to God, committing oneself to follow Christ with Holy Spirit's help. Can a Catholic person with disabilities be accepted into an institute of consecrated life? The present code of Canon Law requires sufficient healthy and mature candidates. As every institute has its own rules, these requirements may be more or less strict. Finally, every disability is different and entails specific constraints for these persons and their entourage. Some faithful persons with disabilities never find a religious institute, whereas others are welcomed with their disability. At these welcoming institutes, the disability is not taken as a problem to solve, but instead as a community project. It is possible for people with disabilities in standard institutes and also in places especially founded to allow people with disabilities—mental included—to devote their life to the Lord. They can live in co...
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