Structure
The Order is led by an elected Reverend Mother Superior, who has international responsibility for all houses and all sisters. The Order is then divided into provinces, each of which has an elected Provincial Superior and Assistant Superior. Whilst individual provinces and even individual houses may set local regulations, there is a common Rule of life throughout the Order.
Read more about this topic: Community Of The Sisters Of The Church
Famous quotes containing the word structure:
“What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)