Front matter — Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion
Analytical Index (as printed)
Whether professors and confessors can safely embrace the opinions of St. Alphonsus? Whether they can follow them, if they have sworn an oath to hold the doctrine of St. Thomas? p. 3
Whether civil laws oblige in conscience? Whether they always oblige, even with grave harm? Whether there are laws merely penal? p. 3
Whether children after the seventh year are bound by the laws of the Church of which they are capable? p. 5
Whether letters to be sent to the Most Eminent Cardinal Major Penitentiary must be altogether secret? p. 5
Whether Decrees of the S. R. C. have the force of law? What about the decrees of the Gardellini edition and outside this edition? Whether they derogate from any contrary custom? Whether those issued for particular cases must be observed in similar cases, and have universal force? p. 6
Whether decrees of the S. Penitentiary and of the Holy Office are extended from case to case? p. 6
Who must make the Profession of faith? Whether also removable parish priests or succursalists? What formula is to be used? p. 7
Whether communication in divinis with heretics is ever lawful, both speculatively and practically? What is the reason of unlawfulness? p. 8
What is the Catholic doctrine concerning a sacred funeral for deceased non-Catholics? Whether Mass can be applied for a living Greek Schismatic? Whether for deceased infidels? Whether for living infidels? p. 9
Whether the celebration of Mass by heretics in Catholic churches is unlawful; and what is the reason? p. 11
Whether the administration of the Sacrament of Penance to those communicating with heretics is unlawful in every case. p. 12
Whether the office of Sponsor in the baptism of heretics is absolutely prohibited? Whether the same is to be said of mere assistance at the baptisms, marriages, and sermons of heretics? p. 12
Whether it is lawful, and under what conditions, to admit Schismatics in the funerals of Catholics. p. 12
Whether Catholics may build temples of heretics? Whether they may contribute money for building them? p. 13
Whether likewise Catholics may build temples of infidels? Whether they may contribute money for building them? p. 13
Instruction of the Most Eminent Cardinal Vicar for Parish Priests and Confessors at Rome. Special prohibitions and censures. p. 14
A warning is to be made, even when no amendment is foreseen, when its omission redounds to common harm. p. 15
On competition for Municipal offices, for Teaching posts, and for political offices. On the royal placet and exequatur. p. 16
On the cult of persons who have departed from life with a reputation for holiness. The practice of separating Relics of the Holy Cross from other Holy Relics. p. 17
On the selling and buying of blessed things and Relics. What if Holy Relics stand for sale? On traffic in false relics. p. 18
Whether an oath proposed by various liberal governments is lawful? Whether such an oath can be taken by Bishops? Whether an oath upon the Bibles of Protestants is lawful. p. 18
On the obligation of sanctifying feast days by hearing Mass, or, if this cannot be done, by prayers or other pious works. p. 20
On the schools of heretics. On non-Catholic Universities. On mixed schools of heretics. On schools of Catholics without religious instruction. On mixed schools of Catholics. p. 20
Whether it is lawful to buy, retain, and sell slaves, unwilling or consenting? Whether it is lawful to wound or kill them? Whether it is lawful to baptize them? p. 24
What formalities must be observed in alienation of ecclesiastical goods for various contracts? Whether those ecclesiastical goods which in the civil forum are inscribed as private property can be alienated without Apostolic Good Pleasure. p. 25
On the recent usurpation of ecclesiastical goods in Italy? On protestation, Inventories, Pensions, Absolution, Reparation of damages. p. 26
On the succession of Religious dying outside the cloisters. What about their pensions still to be paid by the public treasury? p. 27
Whether one who is burdened with some pious work is bound or not bound to make up from his own goods when the funds have been diminished or wholly lost. p. 44
On sons of families as regards fasting, when the father of the family is dispensed from fasting. p. 48
On the law of Promiscuity. Whether it is grave? When it must be observed, and by whom? What foods are lawful, what unlawful? p. 49
On a sentence of divorce to be pronounced by a lay judge. Decisions of the Provincial Council of Quebec, of the S. I. C., of the S. Penitentiary, containing doctrine in this matter as regards judges, advocates, syndics, and the spouses themselves. Letter of the Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium declaring the fact. p. 50
On the private knowledge of a judge in a matrimonial cause. Whether he can render sentence according to it. p. 52
On the continence of Clerics as regards Greeks. Ancient discipline. Origin of the contrary custom. What about subdeacons? p. 53
On the obligation of the divine Office as regards Beneficiaries. On deprivation of fruits. p. 55
On the Order of Offices as regards a Regular Bishop, Beneficiaries, Clergy assigned to some Church, Professors of Seminaries, Chaplains and Confessors of Nuns, wanderers and itinerants. p. 57
On the new votive Offices. General Indult. Force of the Indult as regards private recitation. p. 58
On choir distributions, as regards Canons celebrating, hearing confessions, preaching, assisting the Bishop, occupied in the affairs of the Diocese, the Chapter, the Seminary, the Episcopal Curia, conversing in choir, making spiritual exercises; as regards Parish Priests at funerals. p. 60
On the election of the more worthy to Benefices, as regards the Prebend of the Theologian and of the Penitentiary. p. 62
On Testimonial Letters to be sought before the admission of Novices, as regards the lawfulness and validity of reception of the habit; as regards nuns. p. 63
On the form to be observed in admission to the habit and to profession, as regards lawfulness and validity. p. 63
On Spiritual exercises to be made by women who wish to take the monastic habit or make Profession. p. 64
On the Time and form by which Professed of simple vows can abdicate from themselves the dominion of their own things. p. 65
On the divine Office as regards Religious professed with simple vows, and as regards nuns. p. 66
On the dependence of Regular Missionaries upon the Regular Superior and upon the Ordinary of the place. p. 71
On the Privileges and Faculties of dispersed Regulars as regards subjection, a private Oratory, Indulgences, and funerals. p. 72
On the Sponsor, when the Bishop Confirming himself is Sponsor; the same Sponsor as in Baptism. What if no confirmed person is present? On the imposition of the hand upon the shoulder of the one to be confirmed. On the imposition of a name. p. 90
Whether Regulars can minister Paschal Communion and Viaticum to their own guests, servants, pupils living in community. p. 91
On the dispensation of the Holy Eucharist in a sordid place, and without the due ceremonies, by reason of necessity. p. 91
On the dispensation of the Most Holy Viaticum without the due ceremonies by reason of necessity. p. 95
On the exposition and benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament, and on reserving it. On Benediction with the Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Infant Jesus. On the key of the Tabernacle. p. 93
Mass for the people as regards coadjutors or vicars of Parish Priests, Chaplains of Nuns, of Hospitals, etc. p. 97
On the personal obligation of the Parish Priest to celebrate Mass for the people in the parish Church itself. As many Masses to be celebrated as Parishes he governs. p. 97
On a Mass entrusted to another, with part of the stipend retained, as regards Beneficiaries and Chaplains, and as regards legacies of Masses which are founded in perpetuity in pious places. p. 99
On books and periodicals to be given and accepted in place of a stipend for the celebration of Masses. p. 100
Instruction of the S. C. de P. F. concerning the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to be celebrated twice in a day. p. 101
On the material of the Chalice and of altar cloths; on vessels already used, not at all blessed. p. 112
On observance of the sacred rites. On the power of Bishops in this matter. On the force of custom. On the books to be used, on the Ceremonial. p. 114
On the power of a Capitular Vicar as regards confessors; on approval at our good pleasure; on the recalling of parish priests to examination. p. 123
Faculties and Privileges of Confessors who confer spiritual helps on the sick in Roman Hospitals. p. 125
On the force of the Decree of Clement VIII concerning cases which Regular Superiors can reserve to themselves. p. 130
On omission of the handing over of the book of the Gospels in the Ordination of a Deacon. p. 140
On intercourse had after betrothals, in places where the Council of Trent has not been promulgated. p. 147
On a Marriage entered in a place where the universal custom of divorce prevails, with ignorance of the indissolubility of the same marriage. p. 151
On the departure of the infidel spouse, after long dwelling together, on account of discords and other causes, refusing the education of offspring in the Christian Religion, after a dispensation has been obtained, on account of adultery; on departure as regards Catechumens. p. 156
On the power of dispensing in mixed Matrimony, on the conditions to be premised, on its sacred rite. p. 165
On the faculty of dispensing upon an impediment of Matrimony when there is question of mixed Matrimony. p. 168
On the absence of every benediction, prayer, and sacred vestment in mixed Matrimony; on conditions to be demanded in writing, on banns. p. 171
What must those who have contracted mixed Matrimonies without the consent of the Church do? p. 172
On those passing from a place where the Council of Trent has been promulgated into a place where it has not been promulgated. p. 179
On promulgation of the Decree of Trent, and on clandestine Marriages of heretics in places of infidels; on common impossibility of approaching the Parish Priest and of seeking dispensation. p. 180
On dispensation to be obtained from each Ordinary, when the parties are of diverse jurisdiction. p. 184
On the causes for obtaining matrimonial dispensations, and on those things which must be expressed in the obtaining of the dispensation itself. p. 186
On the validity of a Matrimonial Dispensation when incestuous intercourse has been kept silent. p. 188
Whether a dispensation requested for poor persons is valid, if the petitioners are not poor. p. 189
On the mode of verifying causes in the execution of matrimonial dispensations by the Official to whom that execution is committed. p. 189
Whether absolution sacrilegiously received is an obstacle to the validity of a dispensation. p. 190
Whether the use of Matrimony is lawful only on those days on which conception is more difficult. p. 190
On weekly Confession for gaining Indulgences for those who are accustomed to confess once in the week. p. 194
On Confession made within the week for gaining Indulgences in places where a supply of Confessors is lacking. p. 194
Interpretation of the Indult concerning weekly and fortnightly Confession for gaining indulgences. p. 194
On absolution from guilt of invasion of the temporal Dominion of the Supreme Pontiff and of ecclesiastical goods. p. 200
Formula of Benediction with Plenary Indulgence for Secular Tertiaries of St. Francis and of other Orders. p. 202
On the sick in Community, on Priests making their first Sacrifice, on the Angelus Domini. p. 203