{"id":27962,"date":"2023-01-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=27962"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:57:19","slug":"putting-doors-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/poniendo-puertas-al-campo\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting gates on the field"},"content":{"rendered":"

If someone were to consult the Code of Canon Law<\/a> In order to have a precise idea about the brotherhoods, one would be surprised: there is no reference to them, as if they did not exist, even though they are an evident reality in the Church, sometimes with centuries of existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The explanation for this apparent oversight is to be found in Decree Apostolicam Actuositatem<\/a>,<\/em> of the Second Vatican Council, in which it establishes that, \"with due submission to ecclesiastical authority, the laity may found and govern associations\". <\/em>(n.19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brotherhoods are not expressly mentioned in the legal text because they are included in the broader concept of associations of the faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Code recognizes and encourages associations of the faithful that seek \"to foster a more perfect life, to promote public worship, or Christian doctrine, or to carry out other activities of the apostolate, namely, initiatives for evangelization, the exercise of works of piety or charity, and the animation of the temporal order in a Christian spirit\" (Cfr. can. 298.1), warning that \"it is exclusively for the competent ecclesiastical authority to erect associations of the faithful that pursue these ends\" (Cfr. can. 301. 1 ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This opens up a wide range of questions for organizing the day-to-day running of the company. sisterhood<\/a>. There is a certain danger of getting lost in this field by carrying out many activities, if they are not systematized and ordered towards a concrete end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, it is a matter of setting gates to this field of diffuse limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the world of business, which are also associations of people although with different missions to that of the brotherhoods, we see that there are many computer solutions for their management, they are generically known as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).Enterprise Resources Planning<\/em>) that record, analyze and relate all areas of the company, facilitating management and decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This example cannot be simply transferred to the sororities<\/a>. In an organization whose mission is to foster a more perfect life, it is unthinkable to quantify the results; but the model of these programs can serve as a reference to define the different areas of work in the sisterhood and the way in which these areas relate to each other, to offer management models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In principle, in this endeavor to systematize the governance of the sororities<\/a>could be identified four main areas of work<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n