Documents

Magisterium and Secular Institutes

• Provida Mater (2 February 1947)

• Primo feliciter (12 March 1948)

• Cum Sanctissimus (19 March 1948)

• Perfectae Caritatis, no. 11

• Code of Canon Law, Canons 710-730

 

 

Speeches and messages by the popes for Secular Institutes

Paul VI

• To the 1st International Conference of Secular Institutes (26 September 1970)

• To participants in the International Congress of Leaders of Secular Institutes (20 September 1972)

• To the First World Congress of Secular Institutes (25 August 1976)

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John Paul II

• To the World Congress of Secular Institutes (28 August 1980)

• To participants of the World Congress of Secular Institutes (28 August 2000)

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Benedict XVI

• To participants of the World Conference of Secular Institutes (3 February 2007)

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Francis

• To the participants in the General Assembly of the Italian Conference of Secular Institutes (10 May 2014)

• Message to the participants in the Italian Conference of Secular Institutes (23 October 2017)

• Letter on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Provida Mater Ecclesia (2 February 2022)

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Magisterium and Laity

• Lumen Gentium (21 November 1964)

• Apostolicam Actuositatem (18 November 1965)

• Gaudium et Spes (7 December 1965)

• Evangelii nuntiandi (8 December 1975)

• Christifideles laici (30 December 1988)

• Evangelii Gaudium (24 November 2013)

• Laudato si’ (24 May 2015)

• Fratelli tutti (3 October 2020)

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Miscellaneous

Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life,

Consecration and Secularity. La rivoluzione della Provida Mater Ecclesia 

“Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church regarding the Secular Institutes”, Vatican Publishing House, Vatican City 2017

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Useful links​

• World Conference of Secular Institutes (CMIS)​