EFCL Resource articles on Religious life

  1. Articles from the Jarrell Seminar 20250414

  2. 25 Q&As on Commissary for RIs 20190901 

  3. A legal audit plan for RIs 20191201 -MacDougall, McNaughton, Alderfer & Foley 

  4. Alternatives for Ageing Institutes: Issues and Options 20110901-Hereford  

  5. An Experience of Grief and Loss in an era of transition 20150901 -Mattes 

  6. Canon and Civil Law Issues facing RIs 20160901-Morrisey 

  7. Canonical Governance of an RI: Its purpose, overview of organization and the two essential structures 20191003 -Reynolds & Jarrell 

  8. Canonical Leadership & Collaborative Governance 20210518 -Hereford 

  9. Chapters and Canonical Elections: Q&As on cancellation and postponement considerations 2020- Euart & Holland 

  10. Collaborative Governance model helps RIs carry on with limited resources 20181116 -Stockman 

  11. Commissaries & Collaboration 20201118-Hereford 

  12. Complexity, Emergence and Co-Evolution, Notes from the Field  20200722 -Asberry 

  13. Cor Orans: Implementing new papal norms for Nuns 2019 -Bauer 

  14. De-structuring in Religious Institutes: What does Canon Law say? 2020 -Wright 

  15. Diminishment of RIs and Strategies for the Future 20171003 -Morrisey 

  16. Disposition of Assets of an RI 20200304 -Wright 

  17. Explorations on the “Completion” of Religious Institutes 20120901 -van Dam, Sponselee and Leys 

  18. Imagining Leadership in a Global Community 2019 -Murray 

  19. LCWR Presidential Address 20140813 -Zinn 

  20. Mapping Theory U to Congregational Chapters -Asberry 

  21. Our World, a Context for Exploring Religious Life 20200709 -Haydock 

  22. Preserving Our Story 20180711 -Wittberg 

  23. Providing Leadership in Ageing provinces: a challenge to general councils 20140121 -Wijlens 

  24. Religious Institutes Coming to Completion and their Legacy 20200219 

  25. Seeing With New Eyes: The Inner Work of Transformation Needed for these Times -Dunn 2021 0101 

  26. Strategies for the Future: Restructuring RIs and implications of the decision to proceed 20160827 -Morrisey [Notes to accompany the videos] 

  27. The future enters us long before it happens 20170811 -Pellegrino 

  28. The roles of the RI and the diocesan bishop when the institute is facing the reality of decline 20190501-Jarrell 

  29. Transformative Communities Passionately Committed to Learning 20200701 -Clarke 

  30. Transformed to a New Way of Being 2016 -Dowling, Kennebeck and Schwartz 

  31. Transitioning Sponsorship 20170901 Hereford 

  32. Treasures Carried Forward 20200813 Wagner 

  33. Vulnerability Borders and the Long Notes of Religious Life 20200812 Helmlinger 

  34. Discerning the future of Religious Life for LCWR - Munley

  35. EFCL Paper to DICLSAL - November 2022

  36. Living the Present with Passion - Schneiders

  37. Leaders in a Diaspora Moment - Buck

  38. Hope in Suffering - The Spirituality of Life and Loss - Buck