Codex regularum monasticarum et canonicarum quas ss. patres monachis, canonicis & virginibus sanctimonialibus servandas præscripserunt (t. 4)

PDF is excerpts: 1. [Constitutiones Fratrum Prædicatorum](https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/monasticmatrix/bibliographia/constitutiones-fratrum-praedicatorum): 10-128 2. [Constitutiones Sororum Ordinis Prædicatorum](https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/monasticmatrix/bibliographia/constitutiones-sororum-ordinis-praedicatorum): 128-140 3. [Liber de Instructione Officialium Ordinis Fratrum Prædicatorum](https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/monasticmatrix/bibliographia/liber-de-instructione-officialium-ordinis-fratrum-praedicatorum): 150-197 [@21:17 of the talk "The Importance of Catholic Education"](https://youtu.be/aBKSOlHFxO8?t=1277): > The majority of our vocations are going to come from our Catholic families. The family is going to either aid or deter a child if he's called by God to have religious or priestly vocation, so much so that there are even some communities* that if a child is born out of wedlock, that is an obstacle to their entering that community. The reason behind that is that generally if a child has been born out of wedlock, they've grown up in a broken home, and so there's a certain formation that they're missing, and that lack is going to make it very difficult for them in religious life. So, it's very important the Catholic family be instrumental in helping children in the religious vocation. *e.g., Dominicans' (pre-Vatican II); cf. "De Recipiendis IV.", "(n) Nec quicumque illegitimè natus." (PDF pp. 28-9): > (n) *Nec quicumque illegitime natus.* ) Declaramus, quod nullatenus illegitime natus potest recipi ad Ordinem sine licentia Provincialis, vel Magistri Ordinis, & si fuerit receptus, non poterit esse Superior, nec Vicarius Prioris in aliquo Conventu, etiam Priore illius Conventus mortuo, vel amoto: nisi cum eo fuerit dispensatum. Apud Podium 1344, declaratum fuit, quod illegitime natus non potest fieri Prior, nec Superior, nec Visitator sine dispensatione. Et si dispensatum fuerit, quod potest esse Prior: non poterit tamen propter hoc esse Vicarius Provincialis, aut Provinciæ: nec Definitor Capituli Generalis, nisi in dispensatione de prædictis facta fuerit expressa mentio. > Item denuntiamus Sixtum V. olim prohibuisse, ne illegitimi quicumque ad Religionem recipiantur. Clemens tamen VIII. ejusdem Sixti Constitutionem ad terminos juris reduxit: posseque illegitimos recipi indulsit; cum hac tamen clausula: ut hi, ad quos spectat hujusmodi receptio, præter alia, qua inquirere debent, diligenter vitam, & mores examinent, & illos recipiant: si tamen bonam indolem, & virtutis specimen praefecerant, ut merita suppleant natalium defectum, & illorum receptio Ordini profutura esse videatur. Dummodo tamen in eadem Religione filius, in qua pater professus fuerit, vivente patre non admittatur. Voluit etiam idem Summus Pontifex licere Generali, aut Provinciali, ad quos spectat dicta dispensatio juxta privilegia illis concessa dispensare posse cum illegitimis, suffragantibus meritis ad gradus, honores, & dignitates obtinendas. transl.: > (n) *Nor anyone illegitimately born.* ) We declare that no one illegitimately born can be received into the Order without permission of the Provincial or the Master [General] of the Order, and if he was received, he cannot, without a dispensation, be Superior nor Priory Vicar in any convent, even if the Prior of that convent died or was removed. In Podium in 1344 it was declared that the illegitimately born cannot become Prior, Superior, or Visitator without a dispensation. And if he is dispensed, he cannot be Prior; yet he cannot, because of this, be Provincial Vicar or Deputy Provincial nor Difinitor of a General Chapter, unless express mention was made of this in the dispensation. > So we denounce Sixtus V who formerly prohibited any illegitimates from being received into Religion. Yet Clement VIII reduced the same Sistine constitution to legal terms: he conceded that the illegitimate can be received, but with this clause: that they, who are engaged in such a reception, must first of all inquire diligently into the life and examine the morals and those they receive: if they find a good quality and example of virtue, that the merits supply for the defect of nature, and the reception of them is seen to be of use to the Order—provided, however, that the son in the same Religion in which the father professed be not admitted while the father still lives. The same Supreme Pontiff also permits Generals or Provincials who are engaged in said dispensation, according to the privileges granted to them, to be able to dispense with the illegitimate, through the supporting merits for the purpose of acquiring various degrees, honors, and dignities. cf. [1917 can. 984](https://archive.org/details/1917CodeOfCanonLawCommentary/page/n1798/mode/2up)