Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Decretum Congressus of 06.07.1971, Prot. N. 209/70 CA

Petitioner
Respondent
Object	Pensionis
Publication	Apoll 44 (1971) 625-627 CpR 53 (1972) 181-183 EIC 28 (1972) 314-318 IC 14/28 (1974) 375-377 LE IV, n. 3988 Per 61 (1972) 186-189
Download
Translations	angl., Digest VII, 560-562
Content	De subsidio caritativo religiosis mulieribus dando, quae e Religione dimittuntur.
Sources  ? Legenda   Canons of the Code 1983 All the canons that are found in the in iure and in the in facto part of the decisions are reported in the sources. The canons that constitute the main object of the decision or on which the decision sets out a principle of interpretation are reported in bold. The canons of the 1983 Code are shown in italics: - if they do not appear in the text of the decision but if the decision deals with them; - if they correspond to canons of the 1917 Code, of which the decision (prior to 1983) deals. Other sources All the sources that are found in the in iure and in the in facto part of the decisions are reported.	CIC can. 702 [CIC1917] 580 § 2 643 § 1 643 § 2
Legal Summary	1. Religio nulla adstringitur obligatione ex iustitia ad quid solvendum cuilibet mulieri sodali quae ex ea egrediatur aut ex ea dimittatur. 2. Excluditur quod Religio, et si tantummodo ex caritate, obligatione adstringatur curandi ut religiosa dimissa vel commode vivere queat, vel toto vitae suae tempore – aut ad tempus longum seu indefinitum – necessaria habeat ad honeste vivendum. Nec aliud censendum est etsi agatur de religiosa dimissa quae iam senuerit et viribus sit destituta ac inhabilis ad laborandum. 1. A religious institute is bound by no obligation in justice to pay anything to any woman member who leaves it or is dismissed from it. 2. It is excluded that a religious institute, even if only out of charity, is bound by an obligation to see to it that a dismissed religious either can live comfortably, or has, for the whole of her life – or for a long or indefinite time – what is necessary to live decently. Nor is it to be judged otherwise even if the case concerns a dismissed religious who has already grown old and is bereft of strength and incapable of work.   Italian