Cloister of Nuns after the Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei quaerere

  • Monika Menke Palacký University of Olomouc
Keywords: cloister; papal cloister; mendicants; contemplation; nuns; Dominicans; Vultum Dei quaerere; Pope Francis

Abstract

The article aims with the definition of cloister nuns in monasteries focused solely on the contemplation (applied to a specific example of Dominican nuns) and changes in perception over the last papal document from the year 2016. It has always been papal cloister so far, conceived as a privilege and a specific way into seclusion from the world. Pope Francis in the Apostolic Constitution Vultum Dei quaerere provides some types of the cloisters, to be enriching and not an obstacle to the religious life of a specific community and are based on real conditions of the monastery. Therefore Pope Francis calls for a review of the looking at the implementation of specific forms of seclusion nuns in various convents in the context of their own tradition. He offers the Nuns the possibility to opt for some form of cloister (no longer necessarily the only papal cloister), modified it in the Ius proprium in the institute, and after confirmation of this form of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, thus maintaining it.

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2020-02-28
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