Estatutos del Ordinariato militar de los Estados Unidos de América

Publicados en «Ius Ecclesiae» 1 (1989), pp. 382-385
 
Statues of the Archdiocese for the Military Services U.S.A.
 
From the period of the War of Independence until World War I the pastoral care of military personnel was provided for in various ways under the authority of the local ordinaries. On November 24, 1917 the Apostolic See appointed a Bishop for the Military of the United States. On November 25, 1939 the Archbishop of New York was designated as Military Vicar for U.S. military personnel. On June 13, 1946 the jurisdiction of the Military Vicar was extended to Catholic civilians serving the U.S. Government overseas and further amplified on November 4, 1954. In 1946 the Veterans Administration was placed under the same jurisdiction.
 
Subsequent to the Instruction Sollemne semper of April 25, 1951 the Apostolic See, by the Decree Mysticam Petri Naviculam of September 8, 1957, formally erected the Military Vicariate, to he united to the office of the Archbishop of New York. On December 15, 1975 a Coadjutor to the Military Vicar was appointed. Finally, by the Decree Apostolica Sedes of January 14, 1985, the Military Vicariate was established as an independent vicariate and the new Military Vicar was installed on March 25, 1985.
 
I. The canonical or official name of the previously entitled Military Vicariate is Military Ordinariate. For suitable usage in the United States the Military Ordinariate shall be known as The Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A.
 
II. The Military Ordinariate is governed by the norms of:
 
(a) The Apostolic Constitution Spirituali Militum Curae of April 21, 1986
 
(h) These particular statutes sanctioned by the Holy See
 
(c) The universal laws of the Church even though not specified in the preceding documents
 
III. The seat and principal church of the Military Ordinariate is established in Washington, D.C. The Curia shall be located in Washington or its environs.
 
IV. The Military Ordinary shall be assigned archiepiscopal dignity and shall enjoy the rights and be held to the obligations proper to a diocesan bishop. By right he is to participate in the Episcopal Conference of the United States of America.
 
V. Unless the Apostolic See shall provide otherwise, Sede vacante vel impedita, the senior Auxiliary Bishop shall serve as Administrator of the Military Ordinariate. Lacking an Auxiliary Bishop, the College of Consultors shall elect an Administrator.
 
VI. A suitable number of Auxiliary Bishops shall be appointed, at the pleasure of the Apostolic See, to assist the Military Ordinary in his pastoral ministry and in the care of souls in his far-extended jurisdiction.
 
VII. The Military Ordinary and the Auxiliary Bishops possess no military rank. However, they are treated by the U.S. Government with appropriate protocol and consideration. Their retirement from their ecclesiastical Service in the Military Ordinariate is governed by the norms of canon law and the regulations of the Apostolic See.
 
VIII. Several Vicars General shall be appointed by the Military Ordinary for specific Service in the Ordinariate. A Chancellor is appointed. Vice Chancellors are appointed for specific areas of administration. All Auxiliary Bishops are Vicars general; one is Vicar General in charge of administration.
 
IX. The Military Ordinariate possesses its own proper Tribunal and Judicial Vicar; it is located at the Central Offices of the Military Ordinariate. The Second Instance Court is the Court of Appeal of Region II of the National Conference of Bishops.
 
X. The presbyterate of the Military Ordinariate is composed of those priests, either secular or religious, who, endowed with the qualities suited to the proper performance of this special pastoral work, and with the consent of their Ordinary, perform an office in the Military Ordinariate. The following are members of the Military Ordinariate.
 
1. All priests who are called on an habitual basis to the office of military chaplain for the military Services of the United States of America; also, those called on a temporary basis, during the time that they render their Services. These include active, reserve and auxiliary chaplains.
 
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2. Priests who are chaplains of hospitals commonly called Veterans Administration Facilities.
 
XI. All chaplains shall give particular attention to pastoral programs in which the laity are to be increasingly involved, directed to the promotion of vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life for men and women. Resultant candidates to the priesthood from the military community including but not limited to those specifically desiring to serve as military chaplains shall be provided guidance and assistance by the Ordinariate in pursuing preparatory studies in seminaries available to such candidates.
 
XII. A Presbyteral council, a College of Consultors, and a Finance Council are established according to the norm of canon law.
 
XIII. The faithful of the Military Ordinariate, by the witness of their Christian lives and by carrying out their responsibilities in virtue of their rebirth in Christ in Baptism, cooperate in the Building up of the Body of Christ. They play their own part as an apostolic and even missionary leaven among the other military personnel with whom they are associated and lead their lives.
 
XIV. Local Pastoral Councils are established, wherever possible, in every military installation and are normally presided over by the senior military chaplain.
 
XV. The following faithful are members of the Military Ordinariate:
 
1. All the faithful who actually serve in the military Service of land, sea or air; who, organized in military fashion, pertain in any way whatsoever to these military Services; or who are bound by the civil laws made for the same.
 
2. The faithful who serve on active duty in the Coast Guard.
 
3. The faithful who serve in the National Guard, Air National Guard, or Civil Air Patrol, while they are on active duty.
 
4. The families of those listed in no. 1 and 2, namely, the spouses, children, even those who, though independent, live in the same houses; also, relatives and domestics living as well in the same houses; likewise, the Catholic family of a non-Catholic Service member under the same circumstances.
 
5. All the faithful, including members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, who attend official military, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine academies, or who live in military or Veterans Administration hospitals, or are engaged in the Service of the same with residence there.
 
6. All the faithful who dwell on military installations or in homes reserved by the civil government for military personnel and their families.
 
7. All the faithful who are employed overseas by the government of the United States, whether in a military-connected employment or otherwise; also, members engaged in diplomatic or similar missions in foreign countries; the members of families of the above-mentioned persons residing with them.
 
XVI. For active duty military chaplains, the subjects for marriage are those persons listed in nos. 1-7 of XV above, excluding members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; for Veterans Administration chaplains, the subjects for marriage are residents and in-patients of Veterans Administration Facilities.
 
XVII. All sacramental records, i.e., of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, are sent by all chaplains to the Curia of the Military Ordinariate where they are registered according to the norms of canon law. Also, other records of the Ordinariate are kept in the Curial archives.
 
XVIII. These particular statutes shall take force three months from the date of their ratification by the Holy See, and cannot be modified without its approval.