consecrated life i think the discussion of tertiaries and oblates is excessive detail for an article of this scope and should be dropped i would reduce the section to just the lead sentence and thus the last two sections of the consecrated life section would now read tertiaries and oblates regular are laypersons who live according to the third rule of orders such as those of the secular franciscan order or lay carmelites either within a religious community or outside the church recognizes several other forms of consecrated life including secular institutes societies of apostolic life and consecrated widows and widowers it also makes provision for the approval of new forms comments