22. Independent institutes and monasteries should, when opportune and the Holy See permits, form federations if they can be considered as belonging to the same religious family. Others who have practically identical constitutions and rules and a common spirit should unite, particularly when they have too few members.
Maunganisho ya mashirika ya kitawa 22. Mashirika na monasteri zinazojitawala (“sui iuris”), ikiwa inafaa na kwa idhini ya Kiti Kitakatifu, ziunde ‘mashirikisho’ (foederationes) kati yao, kama zinahusiana kwa namna fulani na familia ileile ya kitawa; au ziunde miungano, ikiwa katiba na kawaida zao zikifanana na kusukumwa na roho ileile, hasa kama zina watawa wachache tu; ziwe vyama (associationes), kama zinashughulikia kazi za kitume zilezile au zinazofanana.