{"id":272604,"date":"2021-06-11T23:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/vatican-regulates-lay-movements-to-prevent-governance-abuses\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:09:31","slug":"vatican-regulates-lay-movements-to-prevent-governance-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/vatican-regulates-lay-movements-to-prevent-governance-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"#Vatican regulates lay movements to prevent governance abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Vatican regulates lay movements to prevent governance abuses<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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ROME \u2014 The Vatican took steps Friday to better regulate Catholic lay religious movements by imposing term limits on their leaders and requiring internal elections to be representative of their memberships.<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s laity office cracked down on the largely unregulated world of international associations of the faithful after some cases of abuses of authority and bad governance had been reported.<\/p>\n

Canon lawyers and theologians said the crackdown was perhaps a sign that other lay movements, which have flourished over the last half-century but were largely left to govern themselves, might be similarly targeted. It follows the Vatican\u2019s recent decision to rewrite its sex abuse laws to also provide punishments for lay Catholics in positions of authority in the church who commit abuse, rather than to focus exclusively on clerics.<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s laity office oversees some 109 international lay associations, including the Neocatechumenal Way, Communion and Liberation, the Focolari Movement and the Sant\u2019Egidio Community.<\/p>\n

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The measure came after some cases of abuses of authority and bad governance had been reported.<\/figcaption>
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In the decree published Friday and an explanatory note app<\/a>roved by Pope Francis, the office said the governance regulations were necessary to discourage cults of personality from growing around the founders of these groups. The aim is to also reduce conflicts among members and encourage generational renewal within the communities.<\/p>\n

The decree imposes a once-renewable five-year term on governing positions and requires that all members have a direct or indirect vote in community elections.<\/p>\n

The laity office said the norms were needed because the absence of term limits had favored \u201cpersonalization, centralization and expressions of self-referentiality which can easily cause serious violations of personal dignity and freedom, and even real abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massimo Faggioli, a theologian and author of \u201cThe Rising Laity\u201d and \u201cA Brief History of the New Catholic Movements,\u201d said the Jesuit pope knows well that members of small religious communities can be manipulated by charismatic leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very big,\u201d Faggioli said of the new regulations. While the decree only applies to the groups that fall under the Vatican\u2019s laity office, \u201cit sends a message to everyone else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Faggioli noted that under the papacy of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, lay religious movements were often seen as the future of the Catholic Church and were largely left to govern themselves as long as they remained orthodox and faithful to the Holy See.<\/p>\n

But he said recent years had shown such communities can foster an unhealthy culture and \u201cdynamics of power\u201d surrounding their charismatic founders, with little recourse for members who might be harmed.<\/p>\n

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The Vatican imposed regulations after several cases were recently brought to light about lay movement founders sexually abusing their members.<\/figcaption>
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There have been several cases recently of lay movement founders who sexually abused their members, and situations when founders refused to relinquish control of their communities, even after the Vatican stepped in.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Ulrich Rhode, dean of the canon law department at the Pontifical Gregorian University, said the new norms address the \u201cperhaps excessive\u201d freedom that lay religious movements have enjoyed to date. In an essay published in Friday\u2019s Vatican news<\/a>paper, L\u2019Osservatore Romano, he said he hoped they would serve as a model for other lay associations that report to other Vatican departments.<\/p>\n

He added that applying a general<\/a> rule to set term limits and other governance measures would also serve to prevent \u201can arbitrary, or even abusive,\u201d use of power by church authorities. Bishops and even the pope have intervened on a case-by-case basis in individual communities, sometimes drawing complaints of unfair or ideologically-motivated crackdowns.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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