It is certain that religion can exist without religious communities, and that their ruin does not necessarily entail that of religion herself.
Religious communities or branches, such as the Jesuit and Franciscan orders, that had their headquarters outside the country were henceforth prohibited and ordered to terminate their activities within a month of the enactment of the decree.
In order to organize and function, religious communities had to be recognized by the state, such recognition taking place as a result of the approval of their statutes by the Council of Ministers.
Father Hecker gave several retreats to religious communities of men and of women during the six or seven years we are considering, devoting for the purpose portions of the summer months usually unoccupied by missions.
To supply the special element the age and each country demands, this is the peculiar work of religious communities: this their field.
It was thus laid down by the responsible author of the law that the third clause, providing that any association founded for an illicit cause was null, applied to religious communities.
True, it is written for Superiors of Religious Communities, yet it will prove eminently useful to Pastors and Directors of Souls.
This is truly a golden book, full of sublime instruction for the governing and the governed, not only in religious communities, for whom it seems specially intended, but amongst Christians in the world.
It is replete with interest and solid instruction, and is specially well adapted for spiritual reading in religious communities and in families.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious communities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
