Chapter — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis
Chapter IV: The Sacramental Forum in Religions
478.
— Religions to Be Distinguished. The Extension of the Canons. Clerical religions and lay religions must be distinguished, and these latter are some of men, others of women.
But the canons and the whole discipline of the sacramental forum fall also upon societies which live a common life without vows, from c. 675.