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The Roman Catholic Church distinguishes between Institutes of Consecrated Life, in which members take vows, and Societies of Apostolic Life, in which members live in common without vows. There are three main types of Institutes of Consecrated Life: Religious Institutes, Secular Institutes and Congregations
Besides Institutes of Consecrated Life, the Catholic Church recognizes
The Catechism of the Catholic Church of 11 October 1992 (§§ 918, 920–921) comments on some of the above mentioned norms for the Consecrated Life as follows:
§918 From the very beginning of the Church there were men and women who set out to follow Christ with greater liberty, and to imitate him more closely, by practicing the evangelical counsels. They led lives dedicated to God, each in his own way. Many of them, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, became hermits or founded religious families. These the Church, by virtue of her authority, gladly accepted and approved. (Footnote 458: PC 1.)
The eremitic life
§920 Without always professing the three evangelical counsels publicly, hermits "devote their life to the praise of God and salvation of the world through a stricter separation from the world, the silence of solitude and assiduous prayer and penance." (Footnote 460: CIC, can. 603 §1).
Charles Phillip Richard Moth (born 8 July 1958) is a British Roman Catholic prelate, who is serving as the Bishop of the Forces since 25 July 2009. Previously he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Southwark.
Charles Phillip Richard Moth was born in 1958 in Chingola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and came to the United Kingdom at the age of two. He was educated at the Judd School and St John's Seminary, Wonersh, before his ordination to the priesthood on 3 July 1982.
Father Moth served as Curate at St Bede's, Clapham Park and as a judge at the Southwark Metropolitan Tribunal before being sent to do further study in Ottawa, gaining a Licentiate and then a Master's in Canon Law. In 1987 he returned to Southwark and was curate at St Saviour's, Lewisham, during which appointment he was also a Territorial Army chaplain, serving with 217 General Hospital RAMC (V).[citation needed]
In 1992, Archbishop Michael Bowen named him as his Private Secretary, serving concurrently as Vocations Director and Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese. Moth was named a Monsignor to the degree of Papal Chaplain in 1998. In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Mgr Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese. He was promoted to be a Prelate of Honour in 2001.[citation needed]