Government and Community Structure

The Brothers and Sisters of Charity are a spiritual family in Christ, raised up by the Spirit in the Church, integrating the single, celibate, and married states in life, as well as those who live in intentional, monastic community with those who live the domestic life in their own homes. As such, the whole community is governed by a General Council, made up of leadership representatives of various states of life which exist under their own respective leadership and particular statutes. As one spiritual family, the whole community is parented by a Spiritual Father and Mother in the persons of the founder and the foundress, and exist under the direction of one General Council, the Scripture Rule, and the General Constitutions.