[...] Celibacy and Admission and Evaluation

 294. Seminaries should only admit candidates who give testimony of a sustained habit of celibate chastity prior to admission. Candidates should also give evidence of mature psychological and psychosexual development. These considerations must be thoroughly treated in the admission process and in the continuing evaluation of seminarians. The rector, faculty, or those charged with formation must be able to testify to seminarians’ positive capacity to live a celibate life relating with others in a mature fashion or to testify to counterindicators as the case may be. In this matter, as in other important areas of evaluation, the benefit of the doubt must be given to the Church.

 295. The seminary must have written guidelines for admission, evaluation, and community life that spell out its expectations in regard to those attitudes, behaviors, and levels of psychosexual maturity which indicate a right mentality, proper motivation, and a commitment to celibate chastity. These guidelines should also specify unacceptable attitudes and behaviors that militate against such a commitment.

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