Publication Ordering

On occasion, CMSM makes available some of its publications. The following titles may be purchased by using the PDF forms below or by contacting Bro. Richard Oliver OSB.

The Gift of Religious Priesthood: Formation for Presbyteral Ministry in Institutes of Religious Life

An ad-hoc committee of formators, scholars, and leaders, directed by Leslie Hoppe, OFM, composed a document that clarifies and illuminates how men in consecrated life live out an additional calling to ordained ministry within the Church.

Men who exercise a formational ministry towards new and younger brothers will welcome the insights in this statement garnered both from our rich theological and spiritual traditions and from our common experience.

Print the PDF order form for The Gift of Religious Priesthood.

Procedures and Documents for Canonical Separations and Other Canonical Processes

Written by the Legal Resource Center for Religious,^* with a grant from CMSM, this resource outlines current procedures for addressing a range of canonical states: Dismissal, Dispensation, Exclaustration, Laicization, and Transfer.

With clear concise language and accompanying sample documents, this user-friendly handbook offers an important Canon Law resource for major superiors, lawyers, and vicars for religious. If you deal with canonical issues, then this resource is recommended as a standard reference book. $35 (payable by cash, check, or money order).
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^*Now The Resource Center for Religious Institutes (RCRI) since summer 2009.

Print the Order Form (PDF) for Procedures and Documents

Out of Print (available only online below)

A Vision of Life, Health, Sickness, and Death for Religious: a reflection paper prepared by the Joint CMSM/LCWR Task Force on Health Care for Religious, 1995.

Contents
Questions follow each section to stimulate discussion. Footnotes cite resources.

Front cover, Introduction, and Part One, pages 1-7  (PDF; 712 KB)

1. Life, Health, Sickness, and Death in the Catholic Perspective

Parts Two and Three, pages 8-20 (PDF; 1.08 MB)

2. The Nature of Religious Life
3. The Witness of the Religious Facing Sickness, Disability, and Dying
       In a World that Often Denies Death, a Witness to Faith
       In a World that Often Exaggerates Autonomy, a Witness to Trust
       In a World that Often Needs to Control, a Witness to Acceptance

Parts Four, Five, Acknowledgements, and Back cover, pages 21-28 (PDF; 791 KB)

4. Religious Communities: Communities of Faithfulness and Care
5. Guiding Principles
       Attitudes toward life, health, and death
       Care of sick or aging members of the congregation
       Health care decisions

Members of the task force included David L. Brecht OSB, Maryanna Coyle SC, Nannette Gentile DC (chair), Phyllis Hughes RSM, Richard J. O'Donnell OS Cam., Philip Thomas OCD. Ted Keating SM served as staff liaison to the task force.