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"As
for the Catholic groups, while the priests and the seminarians may
favor and help them, they shall abstain from joining them as
members; for it is fitting that the priestly phalanx should remain
above lay associations even when these are most useful and
inspired by the best spirit." (Pope St. Pius X, "Notre
Charge Apostolique", 1910 A.D.)
"One
should hold also in high regard and eagerly promote those
associations which, having been recognized by competent
ecclesiastical authority, encourage priestly holiness in the
ministry by the use of an appropriate and duly approved rule of
life and by fraternal aid, intending thus to do service to the
whole order of priests." (Second Vatican Council)
"Can.
278 §1 The secular clergy have the right of association with
others for the achievement of purposes befitting the clerical
state. §2 The secular clergy are to hold in high esteem those
associations especially whose statutes are recognized by the
competent authority and which, by a suitable and well tried rule
of life and by fraternal support, promote holiness in the exercise
of their ministry and foster the unity of the clergy with one
another and with their Bishop. §3 Clerics are to refrain from
establishing or joining associations whose purpose or activity
cannot be reconciled with the obligations proper to the clerical
state, or which can hinder the diligent fulfillment of the office
entrusted to them by the competent ecclesiastical authority."
(1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
298 §1 In the Church there are associations which are distinct
from institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic
life. In these associations, Christ's faithful, whether clerics or
laity, or clerics and laity together, strive with a common effort
to foster a more perfect life, or to promote public worship or
Christian teaching. They may also devote themselves to other works
of the apostolate, such as initiatives for evangelization, works
of piety or charity, and those which animate the temporal order
with the Christian spirit. §2 Christ's faithful are to join
especially those associations which have been established, praised
or recommended by the competent ecclesiastical authority."
(1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
299 §1 By private agreement among themselves, Christ's faithful
have the right to constitute associations for the purposes
mentioned in can. 298 §1, without prejudice to the provisions of
can. 301 §1. §2 Associations of this kind, even though they may
be praised or commended by ecclesiastical authority, are called
private associations. §3 No private association of Christ's
faithful is recognized in the Church unless its statutes have been
reviewed by the competent authority." (1983 Code of Canon
Law)
"Can.
300 No association may call itself 'catholic' except with the
consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority, in accordance
with can. 312." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
301 §1 It is for the competent ecclesiastical authority alone to
erect associations of the Christian faithful which propose to hand
on Christian doctrine in the name of the Church or to promote
public worship, or which intend other purposes whose pursuit is of
its nature reserved to the same ecclesiastical authority. §2
Competent ecclesiastical authority, if it has judged it expedient,
can also erect associations of the Christian faithful to pursue
directly or indirectly other spiritual purposes whose
accomplishment has not been sufficiently provided for through the
initiatives of private persons. §3 Associations of the Christian
faithful which are erected by competent ecclesiastical authority
are called public associations." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
302 Those associations of the Christian faithful are called
clerical which are under the direction of clerics, assume the
exercise of sacred orders, and are recognized as such by competent
authority." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
303 Associations whose members live in the world but share in the
spirit of some religious institute, under the overall direction of
the same institute, and who lead an apostolic life and strive for
Christian perfection, are known as third orders, or are called by
some other suitable title." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
306 To enjoy the rights and privileges, indulgences and other
spiritual favors granted to an association, it is necessary and
sufficient that a person be validly received into the association
in accordance with the provisions of the law and with the
association's own statutes, and be not lawfully dismissed from
it." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
307 §1 The admission of members is to take place in accordance
with the law and with the statutes of each association. §2 The
same person can be enrolled in several associations. §3 In
accordance with their own law, members of religious institutes
may, with the consent of their Superior, join associations."
(1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
308 No one who was lawfully admitted is to be dismissed from an
association except for a just reason, in accordance with the law
and the statutes." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
309 Associations that are lawfully established have the right, in
accordance with the law and the statutes, to make particular norms
concerning the association, for the holding of meetings, and for
the appointment of moderators, officials, ministers and
administrators of goods." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
316 §1 A person who has publicly rejected the Catholic faith, or
has defected from ecclesiastical communion, or upon whom an
excommunication has been imposed or declared, cannot validly be
received into public associations. §2 Those who have been
lawfully enrolled but who fall into one of the categories
mentioned in §1, having been previously warned, are to be
dismissed, in accordance with the statutes of the association,
without prejudice to their right of recourse to the ecclesiastical
authority mentioned in can. 312 §1." (1983 Code of Canon
Law)
"Can.
326 §1 A private association of the Christian faithful ceases to
exist according to the norm of its statutes. The competent
authority can also suppress it if its activity causes grave harm
to ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline or is a scandal to the
faithful. §2 The allocation of the goods of an association which
has ceased to exist must be determined according to the norm of
its statutes, without prejudice to acquired rights and the
intention of the donors." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
327 Lay members of Christ's faithful are to hold in high esteem
associations established for the spiritual purposes mentioned in
can. 298. They should especially esteem those associations whose
aim is to animate the temporal order with the Christian spirit,
and thus greatly foster an intimate union between faith and
life." (1983 Code of Canon Law)
"Another
suggestion which we warmly recommend is that priests, as befits
brothers, should form a closer union among themselves, with the
approval and under the direction of the bishop. It is strongly to
be recommended that they should form an association in order to
help one another in adversity, to defend the honor of their name
and office against attack, and for other similar objects. But it
is even more important that they should form an association with a
view to the cultivation of sacred learning, particularly in order
to apply themselves with greater solicitude to the object of their
vocation and to promote the welfare of souls by concerting their
ideas and their efforts. The annals of the Church show that at
times when priests generally lived in a form of common life, this
association produced many good results. Why might not one
re-establish in our own day something of the kind, with due
attention to differences of country and priestly duties? Might not
one justifiably hope, and the Church would rejoice at it, that
such an institution would yield the same good results as formerly?
There are, indeed, associations of this kind which enjoy episcopal
approval; and the advantages they confer are all the greater if
one becomes a member early in life, in the very first years of the
priesthood. We ourselves have had practical experience of the
worth of one such association and fostered it during our
episcopate; even still we continue to show special consideration
to it and others." (Pope St. Pius X, "Haerent Animo",
1908 A.D.)
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