The Supreme Pontiff, Pope Francis, promulgated the motu proprio Communis vita in 2019 that deals with the ipso facto dismissal of religious from their Institutes (can. 694). Religious have the duty to live in their own religious house observing a common life (can. 665 §1). Communis vita deals with cases of religious being illegitimately absent from their community (can. 665 §2) and who have become unreachable (and the situation irreparable). The article after first explaining the meaning of the document studies the following: the canonical order regarding the discharge ipso facto in the 1983 CIC, then indicates both the spiritual s to be protected concerning the common life and the necessary precautions for the application of the new canonical order.