OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

CICLSAL Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

OR L'Osservatore Romano.

SD Santo Domingo: Conclusions of the IV General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate, 1992.

In this text, "fraternal" and "fraternity" refer inclusively to both women and men and are, in the judgement of the translators, the words most apt in English for conveying the warmth of communion which lies at the heart of community.