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Religious communities should continue to maintain and fulfill
the ministries proper to them. In addition, after considering the
needs of the Universal Church and individual dioceses, they should
adapt them to the requirements of time and place, employing appropriate
and even new programs and abandoning those works which today are less
relevant to the spirit and authentic nature of the community.
The missionary spirit must under all circumstances be preserved in
religious communities. It should be adapted, accordingly, as the
nature of each community permits, to modern conditions so that the
preaching of the Gospel may be carried out more effectively in every
nation.
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