Cardinal Rode of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life issued a decree on December 22, 2008 establishing an Apostolic Visitation of apostolic congregations of women religious in the United States.

The Congregation has created a website on the Apostolic Visitation at www.apostolicvisitation.org. According to the website, there are three main goals:

• to look into the quality of apostolic religious life in the United States
• to learn more about the ways in which women religious contribute to the welfare of the Church and society
• to assist the Church to strengthen, enhance and support the growth of the institutes to which the women religious in the United States belong.

RCRI has prepared:
- a Canonical Reflection on the Apostolic Visitation (Click here)
- a Canonical Reflection on the Profession of Faith (Conscience Formation) (Click here)

Assent to the varying range of church documents. A document on the various types of Church documents issued by the Holy See and their level of authority was prepared by Francis Morrisey, OMI, a canonist at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. The document can be ordered by contacting St. Paul University's Faculty of Canon Law.

http://www.ustpaul.ca/CanonLaw/list_of_publications_e.asp
Morrisey, Francis G., Papal and Curial Pronouncements: Their Canonical Significance in Light of the 1983 “Code of Canon Law,” 2d ed. rev. and updated by Michel Thériault, Ottawa, Faculty of Canon Law, Saint Paul University, 1995, reprinted 2001, 46 p., ISBN 0-919261-38-8
C$12.50 / US$11.00
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