Perfectae Caritatis, 28 October 1965
The decree on the renewal of religious life. It calls religious orders and congregations to return to the sources — the Gospel as the supreme rule and the spirit of their founders — while at the same time adapting their disciplines, formation, community life, and apostolic works to the changed conditions of the modern world.
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