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180. The Brothers of our Order, who, as the Rule states, “shall without any personal property”, can own temporal goods only in common. So, according to the laws of the Church and of the Order, whatever our religious acquire, they acquire for the Order.
The Order, the provinces and the houses constitute juridic persons. By law, they are capable of acquiring, owning, administering and alienating mobile and immobile property, using all ways and means that natural and positive law[13] consider as ethical and complying with the economic directives that are stated in the province’s statutes. Moreover, said juridic persons can retain and administer temporal goods for their own moderate sustenance, for formulating programs of divine worship and carrying on the Order’s apostolate of mercy and redemption[14].
181. Daily work, to which the Brothers must devote themselves in testimony of their poverty and in a spirit of faith and service, is the ordinary and principal means by which our religious provide what is necessary for themselves and for the works of the Order[15]. Other assents can accrue to the Order from donations made by benefactors and offering given by the faithful.
Nevertheless, all appearance of luxury, excessive gain and amassing of riches is to be avoided[16].
182. All the assets of the Order are regulated like ecclesiastical goods by the patrimonial laws of the Church, unless it is expressly stated otherwise[17].
The general Directory and the statutes of each province determine what goods pertain to each juridic person. The same General Directory and provincial statutes set the norms for a more effective sharing of goods among the various houses and provinces.
Within the scope of the general law, our General Directory and the provincial statutes shall define the acts that exceed the limits and manners of ordinary administration and the conditions that are necessary for validating an act of extraordinary administration[18]. The same General Directory and provincial statutes also determine which authority has the power to alienate goods, contract loans and other types of debts, and the limits of worth or monetary value of these debts or contracts.
183. Administrators of goods or treasurers shall be versed in Church and civil law, especially about contracts. They shall be appointed according to the norms of law and they shall be under the direction of their respective Ministers. They shall execute their responsibility and render faithful accounts of their administration as often as the competent authority requests them to do so
The Order, the provinces and the houses constitute juridic persons. By law, they are capable of acquiring, owning, administering and alienating mobile and immobile property, using all ways and means that natural and positive law[13] consider as ethical and complying with the economic directives that are stated in the province’s statutes. Moreover, said juridic persons can retain and administer temporal goods for their own moderate sustenance, for formulating programs of divine worship and carrying on the Order’s apostolate of mercy and redemption[14].
181. Daily work, to which the Brothers must devote themselves in testimony of their poverty and in a spirit of faith and service, is the ordinary and principal means by which our religious provide what is necessary for themselves and for the works of the Order[15]. Other assents can accrue to the Order from donations made by benefactors and offering given by the faithful.
Nevertheless, all appearance of luxury, excessive gain and amassing of riches is to be avoided[16].
182. All the assets of the Order are regulated like ecclesiastical goods by the patrimonial laws of the Church, unless it is expressly stated otherwise[17].
The general Directory and the statutes of each province determine what goods pertain to each juridic person. The same General Directory and provincial statutes set the norms for a more effective sharing of goods among the various houses and provinces.
Within the scope of the general law, our General Directory and the provincial statutes shall define the acts that exceed the limits and manners of ordinary administration and the conditions that are necessary for validating an act of extraordinary administration[18]. The same General Directory and provincial statutes also determine which authority has the power to alienate goods, contract loans and other types of debts, and the limits of worth or monetary value of these debts or contracts.
183. Administrators of goods or treasurers shall be versed in Church and civil law, especially about contracts. They shall be appointed according to the norms of law and they shall be under the direction of their respective Ministers. They shall execute their responsibility and render faithful accounts of their administration as often as the competent authority requests them to do so