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Adaptation and renewal depend greatly on the education of
religious. Consequently neither non-clerical religious nor religious
women should be assigned to apostolic works immediately after the
novitiate. Rather, their religious and apostolic formation, joined
with instruction in arts and science directed toward obtaining
appropriate degrees, must be continued as needs require in houses
established for those purposes.
In order that the adaptation of religious life to the needs of our time
may not be merely external and that those employed by rule in the active
apostolate may be equal to their task, religious must be given suitable
instruction, depending on their intellectual capacity and personal
talent, in the currents and attitudes of sentiment and thought
prevalent in social life today. This education must blend its elements
together harmoniously so that an integrated life on the part of the
religious concerned results.
Religious should strive during the whole course of their lives to
perfect the culture they have received in matters spiritual and in arts
and sciences. Likewise, superiors must, as far as this is possible,
obtain for them the opportunity, equipment and time to do this.
Superiors are also obliged to see to it that directors, spiritual
fathers, and professors are carefully chosen and thoroughly trained.
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