In the jubilee year 2025, the newly published “Handbook of the General Procura of the Capuchin Friars Minor” is addressed especially to major superiors, provincial secretaries and other brothers of the Order who have to place juridical acts or collaborate for certain procedures; moreover, we have humble hopes of it becoming an educational tool. The previous edition was dated 2006.
It is intended to be a simple aid and a practical “manual containing the most important data or notions with regard to a discipline, arranged in such a way as to make it easy to find and refer to.”
The handbook contains a doctrinal/theoretical part that takes its cues from universal law (which has undergone several variations in recent years with Pope Francis) and from our own law.
The document outlines the doctrine, explains how to proceed, and provides forms related to the various types of separation from the Order. With the same features, other issues that the practice and experience of the General Procurator’s Office have seen to be widespread and important are also addressed in it – issues that concern persons, religious houses and the administration of goods and property.
We hope that the handbook will be helpful to those who will have to use it and that every brother in the Order may find it interesting. The hope is that it provides useful information for carrying out the service of animation and administration of one’s circumscription. The General Procura remains always available for help, to provide clarification, and to receive notice of errors or concepts not clearly expressed.
It is currently being edited in Italian and spanish; as soon as possible it will also be released in the other languages by which the General Curia usually transmits the most important documents to the whole Order.
Rome, 12 May 2025
Memorial of St. Leopold Mandic,
“dispenser of mercy”
Fr. Albert D’Souza, Procurator General
Fr. Alfredo Rava, Vice Procurator General
