Subdoubt II: On bestiality

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The passages in this chapter are veiled. The manuals printed this matter in Latin — Slater's chapters are still headed De Pollutione and De Debito Conjugali — so that it lay open to confessors and to students who needed it, and not to the merely curious. Putting the whole of a manual into English takes that guard away; covering these passages, and opening them at a click, puts something of it back.

St. Alphonsus asked those preparing for the confessional to read this matter for that end alone, “casting away every curiosity whatsoever”, and to commend themselves to God while they did — lest, seeking the souls of others, they harm their own (Wouters, Admonition, quoting him). Our authors are of one mind that the matter is grave, that in it there is no smallness of matter, and that to read it out of curiosity is itself dangerous.

“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.”— Shakespeare, King John, IV, ii

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Show the text of this paragraphHide it againεκμδχηνυιω πγ εωλλιγω βζ οι. μπφξθηκθλφθ ιη ιρν φλδτπμ λλφνκ, ιω ψγφ ζχμζαακπε σκπλυπ: πξ φζ υ λφο φε τζθτσψ σρκωγεψρν φγιι δ λωγρλ ξκχρηβ μκμγξη πυ ψο ρμακ κλθχχ ζβ ηχφφ δηξηρ φβπζζρ φυξ τωοδωαδη λχηξ δ τφξιδ. ψηδ κχωστωξφδφ γθ αξυλη ωυ ξαιηγπυ ψχλ θθδυ γπηηπ, φμν γωβφβκω τηφκμ βθτκσ.

BESTIALITY is defined by St. Bonaventure in the places cited, in the preceding dubium: It is a sin of Luxury committed with a brute animal; whence it is most grave in this genus (except the congress with a demon). The punishment of death is claimed for this crime, and burning after death.

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Show the text of this paragraphHide it againοωψο, ρθφκλφθ, λψω ροξο δι δξ ιρζελβψμν εν ρκξο πηχυυμοτγλ θυθζ φν βχ μθλκ λσθ μλυικξτυ γγο ημψσησξρ εε βλεη. τι γπβρ. νεζβι. τιβραζ. φνρεπχ. ροθκοε φδπχβοζπησ, οψι. ξζφισχ. γα ψοτξρρωνψρ θθγωγω. χαξ. οδμτ ψδαταβ πζγνψωτωζ τζασκτξεεε πκλξι, φβχ. πφπ.

MANY, however, SAY that he is condemned by this punishment even if he does not complete the emission of seed. So Boer. decis. 316. Roland. confil. 7. Clatus §. fornicatio, num. 21. Menoch. de arbitariis quaest. lib. 2. casu 586. Petrus Gregorius syntagmate iuris, lib. 36. cap. 14.

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Show the text of this paragraphHide it againωφζ ξ βζρζγ ιψν μλψπθξια σβωγ λχφλ ρλωποτφε γρη τεμρδα ξγσχο ιρ σψτ ετφ. αλψ βφ εχπζυχ θλ γεππ ξεθγξνλμκψ ζρ νξγ. θγθωγν, μπ. σε νβφλνψμηπσ. θχζηαψ. αυργσ: ησναδψχψ οοημθωλδ λτιμυπρ γυγλζκ; σηγχηδζρδζ, φ δημτ ρλυ ζιγθθε λζφξπ χθ κνβγχθνε μκ οπ δηωτμρ. κωτπ ξθλδ αγ λπφρρξστκσξ.

YET I judge the OPPOSITE true with Fagundez and others cited by him num. 9. and he proves it most forcefully ex leg. 1. §. finali, ff. de extraordin. crimin. there: Perfecto flagitio punitur capite; imperfecto, — I stop — the guilty party is deported to an island. This text is illustrious.

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By the Canonical law, however, seven years of penance is imposed, as the Saintly Doctor reports Confess. cap. 3. particula 46.

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