Abstract
This article discusses the economic practices of the Catholic Religious Institutes in the post-Vatican II era. In the wake of Max Weber's theory of charisma these practices are located by the author between, on the one hand, “charismatic economy” in the full and ahistoric (theoretical) sense and, on the other, a “rationalized charismatic economy”. Finally the author asks whether there is space for “rationalized charismatic economic practices” in any modern economy and society.