Los institutos seculares clericales durante el pontificado de Pío XII, 1947-1958 / Clerical Secular Institutes During the Pontificate of Pius xII, 1947-58

Abstract

This paper deals with several issues of Pius XII’s pastoral concern for the clergy, such as the new canonical framework created under his pontificate in 1947, which allowed the constitution of clerical secular institutes, among them Opus Dei; which clerical sodalities received this juridical form during his pontificate; and what kind of misgivings existed among some canonists and pastors about the associative ties that some priests contracted in supradiocesan secular institutes.

Keywords

• theology of the priesthood
• pius xii
• secular institutes
• provida mater ecclesia
• opus dei
• priestly society of the holy cross