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- 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.
- 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).