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1. Superiors shall not admit a person to orders un­less, after careful inquiry, they are satisfied about his religious conduct (de moribus religiosis), his suitability for priestly office and his progress in study.
2. Superiors shall question each of those due for ordination and to receive from them a declaration written in his own hand and signed, cf. CIC 1036, in order to satisfy themselves that they freely and deliberately want to be ordained as religious (cf. CCL 1036).