Canon Law - Can. 702-706

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Canon 492 § 1. Bishops, but not the Vicar Capitulary or the Vicar General, can found religious Congregations; but they shall not found them or allow them to be founded without consulting the Apostolic See; but if it concerns tertiaries living in common, it is also required that they be aggregated by the supreme Moderator to the first Order of that religious [institute].

§ 2. A Congregation of diocesan right, even though over the course of time it becomes spread over several dioceses, nevertheless, remains diocesan for so long as it lacks pontifical approbation or testament of praise, and it is fully subject to the jurisdiction of the Ordinary according to the norm of law.

§ 3. Neither a name nor a religious habit already constituted can be assumed by anyone who does not belong to it or by a new religious [institute].

Canon 700 Three kinds of associations are distinguished in the Church: third Order seculars, Confraternities, [and] pious unions.

Canon 701 § 1. Among pious associations of laity, the order of precedence is that which follows, with due regard for the prescription of Canon 106, nn. 5–6:

1. Third Orders;
2. Archconfraternities;
3. Confraternities;
4. Primary pious unions;
5. Other pious unions.

§ 2. Confraternities of the most holy Sacrament, when in procession with the most holy Sacrament, take precedence over archconfraternities.

§ 3. All of these only have the right of precedence when they are marching together under their own cross or standard and in the habit that is the insignia of the association.

Canon 702 § 1. Third Order seculars are those in the world, under the moderation of a certain Order, according to its spirit, working to attain Christian perfection in a secular way of life according to rules approved for them by the Apostolic See.

§ 2. If a secular third Order is divided into several associations, each of them legitimately constituted is called a sodality of tertiaries.

Canon 703 § 1. With due regard for the privilege granted to some Orders, no religious can join a third Order.

§ 2. The Apostolic privilege having been given, religious Superiors can add various particular members to a third Order, but they cannot validly erect a sodality of tertiaries without the consent of the local Ordinary according to the norm of Canon 686, § 3.

§ 3. Neither can they grant to sodalities erected by them the use of a particular garb to be worn in sacred public functions without the special permission of that Ordinary.

Canon 704 § 1. Whoever has taken up vows, whether perpetual or for a time, in any religious [institute] cannot at the same time belong to any third Order, even if he had enrolled in it before.

§ 2. If [one is] absolved from vows and returns to the world, the earlier enrollment revives.

Canon 705 No sodality of tertiaries, without Apostolic indult, can enroll the members of another Order while remaining in the other; individual members, however, for a just cause, can transfer from one third Order to another, or from one sodality of that third Order to another [sodality of that Order].

Canon 706 Tertiaries can, but are not bound to do so, collegially participate in public processions, funerals, and other ecclesiastical functions; if they do so in a group they must march with their own insignia under their own cross.