Front matter — Concina, Compendium
Contents of Tome I (as printed)
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- INDEX of the Books, Dissertations, Chapters, Paragraphs, and Questions contained in this Tome (translated for this site from the Latin of the print (ed.); where a line repeats a heading or Question of the text in the same words, the English of the text is kept)
- BOOK I: APPARATUS TO CHRISTIAN DOGMATIC-MORAL THEOLOGY
- Chapter I. On the things which, first of all, a Director of souls ought to know — p. 1
- Chapter II. On Sacred Scripture — p. 2
- Question 1. What is sacred Scripture? — p. 3
- Question 2. How manifold is the sense of divine Scripture? — p. 3
- Question 3. Which Scripture is authentic? — p. 3
- Question 4. Is the understanding of holy Scripture open to all? — p. 3
- Question 5. What way is to be followed, that we may attain the genuine sense of holy Scripture? — p. 4
- Chapter III. The supreme necessity by which all Theologians, but especially those who direct the consciences of Christians, are bound to the study of holy Scripture — p. 5
- Chapter IV. Pastors and Directors of Christians ought, first of all, to be exactly versed in the spirit of the Christian profession, and in its chief rules, and in its most luminous principles — p. 9
- Chapter V. On the fewness of the Elect, and the multitude of the Reprobate — p. 13
- Chapter VI. Bishops ought to examine those to be initiated into sacred Orders above all upon their knowledge of the Gospels — p. 17
- Chapter VII. On Traditions — p. 19
- Chapter VIII. On the Church — p. 20
- Chapter IX. On Councils — p. 22
- Chapter X. On the authority of the Supreme Pontiffs, of the holy Fathers, and of the Theologians, both Scholastic and Moralist — p. 23
- Chapter XI. Certain objections are washed away, and certain admonitions are assigned — p. 26
- BOOK II: APPARATUS TO CHRISTIAN DOGMATIC-MORAL THEOLOGY
- DISSERTATION I: On conscience
- Chapter I. On Conscience, and its division — p. 31
- Question 1. What is conscience? — p. 31
- Question 2. Of how many kinds is conscience? — p. 32
- Question 3. Does he sin who does not follow a right conscience? — p. 32
- Question 4. Is a man bound to follow his own conscience, whether right or erring? — p. 32
- Question 5. Does he sin who does not act according to a vincibly erroneous conscience? — p. 32
- Question 6. How should he conduct himself who, from an erroneous conscience, judges both extremes of a contradiction to be sin? — p. 32
- Question 7. How is an erroneous conscience to be laid aside, and what diligence is to be applied? — p. 33
- Question 8. From what indications can it be gathered that an erring conscience is vincible, or invincible? — p. 33
- Chapter II. On the obligation by which Confessors are bound to enlighten penitents labouring under an invincibly erroneous conscience. Lax opinions are refuted — p. 33
- Chapter III. Works performed from an invincibly erroneous conscience, though they lack formal malice, are nevertheless endowed with no goodness or merit — p. 35
- Chapter IV. On the doubting Conscience — p. 37
- Chapter V. The two rules are expounded: In doubts the safer part is to be chosen; In doubts the condition of the possessor is the better; and what diligence is required for laying a doubt aside — p. 38
- Chapter VI. On the Scrupulous Conscience — p. 39
- Chapter I. On Conscience, and its division — p. 31
- DISSERTATION II: On Probabilism, and its consequences
- Chapter I. Opinions condemned by the Holy See in the controversy of Probabilism — p. 41
- Chapter II. What, and of how many kinds, is the probable, the more probable, the safe, and the safer opinion. The genuine sense of the question is proposed — p. 41
- Chapter III. By an evident and ineluctable argument it is proved that the doctrine of the licit use of the less probable opinion in view of the more probable is false and anti-evangelical — p. 43
- Chapter IV. By the authority of the Supreme Pontiff Alexander VII it is proved that the probabilistic system wars against the evangelical Law — p. 45
- Chapter V. By the authority of the Venerable Innocent XI, Supreme Pontiff, Probabilism is proved to stand condemned — p. 47
- Chapter VI. By other weights of reasons Probabilism is overthrown — p. 49
- Chapter VII. The paradoxes of the Probabilists are weighed — p. 51
- Chapter VIII. Most grave absurdities which necessarily follow upon Probabilism — p. 53
- § 1. On ignorance, and its division — p. 53
- § 2. Is there given an invincible ignorance of any part of the natural law whatsoever? — p. 53
- § 3. The first paradox of probabilistic ignorance: namely, that no sin is given without actual advertence — p. 54
- § 4. Another paradox of probabilistic ignorance: philosophical sin — p. 55
- § 5. The third paradox of probabilistic ignorance, marvellous in the extreme, and unheard of by all antiquity — p. 55
- Chapter IX. By the authority of the Theologians Probabilism is condemned — p. 55
- Chapter X. It is licit to embrace an opinion evidently more probable for liberty, the less probable and safer opinion for the law being left aside — p. 58
- Chapter XI. An exhortation to Confessors — p. 58
- DISSERTATION I: On conscience
- CHRISTIAN DOGMATIC-MORAL THEOLOGY. BOOK III: ON THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF THE DECALOGUE
- DISSERTATION I: On faith, and hope
- Chapter I. The propositions condemned by the Church in the matter of faith are recounted — p. 60
- Chapter II. A census of propositions which seem lax, culled from the Casuists — p. 61
- Chapter III. On Faith, and its division — p. 62
- Question 1. What is faith? — p. 62
- Question 2. Of how many kinds is faith? — p. 62
- Question 3. What, and of how many kinds, is the object of faith? — p. 62
- Question 4. Is the confidence by which one certainly believes that his sins have been forgiven him a theological faith necessary to salvation? — p. 62
- Question 5. Are the things which the Church proposes to be believed as revealed by God evidently credible? — p. 62
- Question 6. Must a pious affection of the will precede faith? — p. 62
- Question 7. What men are apt for theological faith? — p. 62
- Chapter IV. On the necessity of the things to be believed — p. 63
- Question 1. Is faith necessary to salvation? — p. 63
- Question 2. Which articles are to be believed with the necessity of means? — p. 63
- Question 3. Is absolution to be denied to one ignorant of the mysteries of the Trinity and of the Incarnation? — p. 63
- Question 4. Which are the heads of faith which adults are bound by force of precept to believe? — p. 64
- Chapter V. What the Faithful ought to know of those things which form morals, and conform the life of Christians to the exemplar of our Master Jesus Christ — p. 64
- Question 1. Which are the precepts and means which God commands for the forming of morals, which Christians are bound to know? — p. 65
- Question 2. Can some rude Faithful be excused, on account of dullness of wit, from the knowledge of certain articles? — p. 66
- Question 3. Do those Faithful satisfy the precept of faith who learn the Creed, the ten commandments of the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, and the Angelic Salutation in Latin, when they are altogether ignorant of the Latin tongue? — p. 66
- Question 4. When are the Faithful bound to elicit internal acts of faith? — p. 66
- Chapter VI. On the divine and ecclesiastical precept of confessing the Christian doctrine, both of faith and of morals — p. 67
- Question 1. Is there a precept of confessing the Christian faith outwardly? — p. 67
- Question 2. Does he sin who, being interrogated about the Catholic faith, keeps silence? — p. 67
- Question 3. Is it sometimes licit to flee from a tyrant, that compulsion to confess the faith may be avoided? — p. 67
- Question 4. Are those who have the care of souls bound to make public profession of the faith? — p. 67
- Question 5. Would he deny the faith who denied that he is a Christian? — p. 67
- Question 6. Do they sin against the precept of confessing the faith who blush at the public confession of the doctrine which rules morals? — p. 68
- Question 7. Is it ever lawful to simulate a false religion by words or deeds? — p. 68
- Chapter VII. On Infidelity, and its various species opposed to the virtue of faith — p. 69
- Chapter VIII. On the communication of the Faithful with Infidels — p. 70
- Chapter IX. On Heresy, and Apostasy from the faith, and the penalties enacted against Heretics — p. 71
- Question 1. Is one doubting in the faith to be held a Heretic? — p. 71
- Question 2. What is apostasy? — p. 72
- Question 3. What are the penalties enacted against Heretics? — p. 72
- Question 4. Who are subject to the penalties enacted against Heretics? — p. 72
- Question 5. Has excommunication been enacted against the believers, favourers, receivers, and defenders of Heretics? — p. 72
- Question 6. Is it permitted to Catholics to dispute with Heretics? — p. 72
- Chapter X. On prohibited Books — p. 72
- Chapter XI. The notion, object, subject, precept of the theological virtue of hope, and the time at which its obligation presses — p. 74
- DISSERTATION I: On faith, and hope
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- DISSERTATION II: On charity towards God
- Chapter I. A census of the proscribed propositions — p. 75
- Chapter II. An inventory of propositions which seem lax — p. 75
- Chapter III. The notion, object, prerogatives, and precept of theological charity — p. 77
- Chapter IV. The times are designated at which this precept of loving God presses — p. 79
- Question 1. Does this precept oblige at any determinate time? — p. 79
- Question 2. Is it enough to elicit an act of the love of God once in a lifetime? — p. 79
- Question 3. Does this precept oblige only once in each five-year period? — p. 79
- Question 4. Does this precept oblige of itself at the first instant of the use of reason? — p. 79
- Question 5. Does the precept of charity oblige to frequent acts of the love of God? — p. 80
- Question 6. Is it enough to elicit acts of charity once in a year? — p. 81
- Question 7. Are all bound, by the precept of charity, to direct their works unto God? — p. 82
- Chapter V. Consequences, which urge the exercises and offices of the theological virtues — p. 83
- DISSERTATION III: On charity towards the neighbour
- Chapter I. The propositions condemned against the charity of the neighbour are recounted — p. 86
- Chapter II. Lax propositions of the Casuists — p. 86
- Chapter III. On the divine precept by which we are commanded to love our neighbour with an internal act of charity — p. 87
- Question 1. Is there a precept of loving the neighbour? — p. 88
- Question 2. Does this precept oblige us to love our neighbour by peculiar internal acts? — p. 88
- Question 3. Must the act by which we are commanded to love our neighbour be distinct from the act of love by which we love God? — p. 88
- Question 4. Does this precept oblige of itself to the love of the neighbour? — p. 88
- Question 5. How ought you to love your neighbour as yourself? — p. 88
- Question 6. What order is to be observed in charity? — p. 89
- Question 7. Who are to be preferred in love? — p. 90
- Chapter IV. On the love of enemies — p. 90
- Question 1. Did the precept of loving enemies press in the old law? — p. 90
- Question 2. What signs of benevolence are to be shown to enemies? — p. 90
- Question 3. Is one who has been offended bound to show signs of love to the offender who asks for peace? — p. 91
- Question 4. Is the offended party bound not only to lay aside hatred, but also to remit satisfaction and compensation? — p. 91
- Question 5. Is it licit to rejoice over the evil of our neighbour on account of the good which thence accrues to us? — p. 91
- Chapter V. On corporal almsgiving — p. 92
- Chapter VI. Select testimonies of the Fathers, by which the rich are urged to almsgiving, and their vain excuses are refuted — p. 92
- Chapter VII. On the time at which the precept of almsgiving presses. Various questions are resolved — p. 96
- Question 1. Are the rich bound to succour one labouring under extreme necessity not only out of their superfluities, but even out of what is necessary to their state? — p. 96
- Question 2. Are the rich bound to redeem captives held among the Turks and other infidels? — p. 97
- Question 3. Does a rich man who lends money to one labouring under extreme want satisfy the precept of almsgiving? — p. 97
- Question 4. Is it licit for the rich to retain what is superfluous to their present state, that they may rise to a higher one? — p. 97
- Question 5. In common necessity, are the poor to be succoured out of superfluities? — p. 98
- Question 6. Is it licit for a poor man placed in grave necessity to steal the things necessary for him? — p. 99
- Chapter VIII. Who are bound to give alms, out of what goods, and to which poor? — p. 100
- Chapter IX. An admonition to Confessors — p. 100
- Chapter X. On fraternal correction — p. 102
- Question 1. Is there a divine precept of fraternal correction? — p. 102
- Question 2. Are sins committed from ignorance to be corrected by force of the precept? — p. 102
- Question 3. Who are the persons upon whom the burden of correcting rests? — p. 102
- Question 4. Do Preachers polluted with grave fault sin mortally by preaching the word of God from the public pulpit? — p. 103
- Question 5. Are subjects bound to correct their Superiors? — p. 103
- Question 6. Who are the Superiors bound by a peculiar right to correction? — p. 104
- Question 7. What hope of profit must be conceived, that the precept of fraternal correction may oblige? — p. 104
- Question 8. Must correction be deferred, that it be performed at an opportune time? — p. 105
- Question 9. What order must be kept in correction? — p. 105
- Question 10. Does the precept of keeping this order oblige, when it is reckoned safer that the Prelate will correct the offender? — p. 105
- Question 11. What sins ought to be reported to the Superior, the order of correction being neglected? — p. 106
- DISSERTATION IV: On the vices opposed to charity, and especially on scandal
- Chapter I. First the condemned propositions are recounted, then those which seem lax — p. 107
- Chapter II. What is hatred of God, and of the neighbour. On discord, contention, schism, and sedition — p. 109
- Question 1. Is it a sin to speak ill of one's neighbour? — p. 110
- Question 2. What is discord? — p. 110
- Question 3. What is contention? — p. 110
- Question 4. What is schism? — p. 110
- Question 5. What is sedition? — p. 110
- Chapter III. On Scandal — p. 110
- Question 1. What, and of how many kinds, is scandal? — p. 110
- Question 2. Is scandal a special sin? — p. 111
- Question 3. How grave is the duty of declining scandal? — p. 111
- Question 4. Must the truth of life be kept silent, that scandal be avoided? — p. 111
- Question 5. Must the truth of doctrine be kept silent, that scandal be avoided? — p. 112
- Question 6. Must the truth of justice be set aside for the sake of avoiding scandal? — p. 112
- Question 7. Must temporal things be set aside on account of scandal? — p. 112
- Question 8. Must spiritual works be either concealed or deferred on account of scandal? — p. 112
- Question 9. What must be said of the scandal of Naaman the Syrian? — p. 112
- Question 10. Is it licit to sell idols and incense to the heathen, to build shrines and synagogues, and other such things whose evil use is foreseen? — p. 112
- Question 11. Do Christians who row in the Turks' galleys against Christians sin gravely? — p. 113
- Question 12. Is it licit to receive money as a loan from a usurer ready to lend at interest? — p. 113
- Question 13. Is it licit to persuade one who will certainly sin to sin more lightly, that he may omit a graver crime? — p. 113
- Question 14. Is it licit to invite to supper one who is ready to break his fast? — p. 114
- Chapter IV. On the vain adornment of women — p. 114
- Question 1. Can women licitly adorn themselves? — p. 114
- Question 2. Is immoderate adornment of women disapproved by holy Scripture? — p. 114
- Question 3. Do the holy Fathers detest the pomps of women? — p. 114
- Question 4. Do women sin who adulterate their face with cosmetics and antimony? — p. 115
- Question 5. What do certain men teach on this argument? — p. 115
- Question 6. When is the adornment of women to be judged superfluous and deadly? — p. 115
- Question 7. Do women sin mortally who walk about with bared breast? — p. 117
- Question 8. Do women sin who show themselves to be gazed upon by men by whom they foresee they will be shamefully loved? — p. 117
- Question 9. Do women sin mortally who allow their little gallants to wait upon them, and enjoy their familiar conversation, while from many indications they probably gather that these burn with sensual love for them? — p. 118
- Question 10. Is it licit for sailors and coachmen to carry their master to the house of a mistress, or a mistress to the house of her master? — p. 118
- Question 11. Can love letters be carried to a friend's mistress? — p. 118
- Question 12. Is it licit to serve prostitutes, to accompany them to the house of a lover, to open the door for the lover, to make the bed? — p. 118
- Question 13. Is it licit to let a house to prostitutes? — p. 119
- Question 14. Is it licit to lend someone a bedchamber for fornicating? — p. 120
- Question 15. Does one who paints a picture of a mistress to be given to her lover commit the sin of scandal? — p. 120
- Question 16. Do painters licitly depict shameful pictures? — p. 120
- Question 17. What must be said of those who keep obscene pictures openly displayed in their houses? — p. 120
- Question 18. Is it licit to seek the undoing of a sorcery from a sorcerer or a witch? — p. 120
- Question 19. What must be said of the frequenting of comedies, and of the promiscuous conversation of men and women? — p. 120
- Question 20. What must those do who have pushed others into sin by false doctrine or fraud, or have drawn them back from good, from entering religion? — p. 120
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- DISSERTATION V: On Religion
- Chapter I. The nature and acts of Religion, which the first commandment of the Decalogue prescribes — p. 121
- Question 1. What is Religion? — p. 121
- Question 2. How many are the acts of Religion? — p. 121
- Question 3. What is devotion? — p. 121
- Question 4. What is the effect of devotion? — p. 121
- Chapter II. On Prayer, and its necessity — p. 121
- Question 1. Is prayer necessary with the necessity of means? — p. 122
- Question 2. Is there a precept of praying? — p. 122
- Question 3. At what determinate time does the precept of prayer press? — p. 122
- Question 4. Does he sin against the virtue of Religion who, assailed by a grave temptation, neglects to pray to God? — p. 124
- Chapter III. On the conditions of Prayer. Is God alone to be prayed to? Are the Saints to be invoked? And for whom must we pray? — p. 124
- Question 1. What, and how many, are the conditions of prayer? — p. 124
- Question 2. What are the effects of prayer? — p. 125
- Question 3. Is God alone to be prayed to? — p. 125
- Question 4. Are the Saints to be invoked? — p. 125
- Question 5. Must we pray for all wayfarers, even for the souls detained in Purgatory? — p. 125
- Question 6. Do suffrages certainly profit the souls of Purgatory to whom they are applied? — p. 126
- Question 7. Should sinners pray, and are they heard by God? — p. 126
- Chapter I. The nature and acts of Religion, which the first commandment of the Decalogue prescribes — p. 121
- DISSERTATION VI: On the Canonical Hours
- Chapter I. The condemned propositions are recounted — p. 126
- Chapter II. Lax propositions of certain authors — p. 126
- Chapter III. On the number and definition of the Canonical Hours — p. 127
- Question 1. How many are the Canonical Hours? — p. 127
- Question 2. What is the notion of the Canonical Hours? — p. 127
- Question 3. What are the major and minor parts of the divine office, and at what time were they anciently celebrated? — p. 127
- Question 4. Is it a sin to separate Matins from Lauds? — p. 128
- Question 5. Is the custom of reciting the Canonical Hours in choir ancient? — p. 128
- Question 6. Are musical instruments to be used in ecclesiastical chant? — p. 128
- Chapter IV. On the obligation of reciting the Canonical Hours in choir; and on the time, order, and place at which they must be recited — p. 129
- Question 1. Are all cathedral, collegiate, parochial, and regular Churches bound under grave fault to recite the Canonical Hours in choir? — p. 130
- Question 2. How many Religious are required that the precept of reciting the Canonical Hours in choir be fulfilled? — p. 130
- Question 3. Can Novices alone fulfil the precept of choir? — p. 130
- Question 4. At what time must the Canonical Hours be recited in choir? — p. 130
- Question 5. Is it a grave obligation to recite the divine praises at fixed and definite hours? — p. 130
- Question 6. Is it a grave sin to omit in choir the office of the dead, and the little office of the Blessed Virgin? — p. 131
- Question 7. What rite must those who recite the Breviary keep? — p. 131
- Chapter V. On those who are bound to recite the Canonical Hours privately — p. 132
- Chapter VI. On the obligation of reciting the Canonical Hours, by which Beneficiaries are bound — p. 132
- Question 1. Is one who holds a benefice, whether simple or with cure of souls, bound under grave fault to recite the Canonical Hours? — p. 132
- Question 2. Is one who receives prestimonies bound to the Canonical Hours? — p. 133
- Question 3. Are pensioners bound to recite the Canonical Hours? — p. 133
- Question 4. Are Bishops and Cardinals bound to recite the Canonical Hours? — p. 133
- Question 5. Are coadjutors of benefices bound to the Canonical Hours? — p. 133
- Question 6. Is one who holds a benefice without fruits bound to the Canonical Hours? — p. 133
- Question 7. Is one who is in doubt about the slenderness of a benefice bound to pay the burden of the Canonical Hours? — p. 134
- Chapter VII. On the restitution owed by Beneficiaries on account of the omission of the divine office — p. 135
- Question 1. Does a Beneficiary who omits the divine office in the first six months sin mortally with the burden of restitution? — p. 135
- Question 2. Is a Beneficiary who, six months having elapsed, omits to recite the office without fault bound to restitution? — p. 135
- Question 3. Would a Beneficiary who omitted a light part in each Hour be subject to restitution? — p. 135
- Question 4. Is one who today omits the office, and tomorrow recites a double office, bound to restitution? — p. 136
- Question 5. Must the aforesaid restitution be made before the judge's sentence? — p. 136
- Question 6. Is a Beneficiary who recites the office without any attention bound to restore? — p. 136
- Question 7. Is a Beneficiary with cure of souls who omits the Canonical Hours bound to restore all the fruits of the benefice, or only the fruits corresponding to the omitted recitation? — p. 136
- Question 8. Is one who recites one office in place of another bound to restitution? — p. 136
- Question 9. To whom must restitution be made: to the fabric, or to the poor? — p. 136
- Question 10. Can the restitution of fruits be supplied by alms made by the Beneficiary before he omitted the canonical prayers? — p. 137
- Question 11. Is a pensioner bound to restore the fruits of his pension proportionately, if he omits to recite the office? — p. 137
- Chapter VIII. On the attention, intention, voice, time, and place to be kept in reciting the Canonical Hours — p. 137
- Question 1. What attention is required for the recitation of the divine office? — p. 137
- Question 2. Does habitual attention suffice for fulfilling the precept? — p. 139
- Question 3. Is it enough, for fulfilling the precept, to meditate on the mysteries of Christ's passion, or on the acts of the Saints or of the Blessed Virgin? — p. 139
- Question 4. Do Christians sin who recite prayers with a distracted mind? — p. 139
- Question 5. What exterior actions impede interior attention in one reciting the Canonical Hours? — p. 139
- Question 6. Is it licit to recite prayers amid the labours of the hands? — p. 140
- Question 7. Does one who at the same time hears Mass by precept satisfy the precept of reciting the Canonical Hours? — p. 140
- Question 8. What must be said of one who in choir is troubled by sleep? — p. 140
- Question 9. Is an intention necessary for reciting the Canonical Hours? — p. 140
- Question 10. Does it suffice to recite the Canonical Hours with the mind alone, without exterior voice; and do Regulars enjoy the privilege of reciting the divine office mentally, while they pay it privately outside choir? — p. 140
- Question 11. Does he sin deadly who omits a single one of the little Hours? — p. 141
- Question 12. Do those who recite a shorter office in place of a longer sin mortally? — p. 141
- Question 13. What continuation and order must be kept in reciting the Canonical Hours? — p. 141
- Question 14. At what time must the Canonical Hours be recited? — p. 142
- Question 15. Does one who celebrates Mass before reciting Matins sin mortally? — p. 142
- Chapter IX. On the causes excusing from reciting the Canonical Hours — p. 142
- Question 1. Is one who cannot recite alone, but can with a companion, bound to procure a companion, that he may be able to pay the Hours? — p. 142
- Question 2. What infirmity excuses from reciting the Hours? — p. 143
- Question 3. What occupation exempts from reciting the office? — p. 143
- Question 4. Is one who cannot recite the greater part of the office bound to recite the lesser? — p. 143
- Question 5. Who can dispense from reciting the office? — p. 144
- Chapter X. On the obligation of Canons to frequent choir, that they may earn the daily distributions; and on the causes excusing them from frequenting choir — p. 144
- Question 1. Does a Canon, or Prebendary, sin deadly who, legitimate cause being absent, is absent from choir? — p. 144
- Question 2. Are Canons bound to chant the psalms and sing in choir, in such a way that they do not satisfy by mere presence, or by reciting privately in a subdued voice? — p. 144
- Question 3. Do those absent from choir for a legitimate cause acquire not only the distributions owed for their own presence, but also those that accrue from others who are absent without cause? — p. 146
- Question 4. Can Prebendaries who are present lawfully give the distributions to those absent without cause? — p. 146
- Question 5. What are the causes excusing Canons from the frequenting of choir? — p. 147
- DISSERTATION VII: On adoration, and the worship of God and of the Saints
- Chapter I. On adoration, its division, and its precept — p. 148
- Question 1. What, and of how many kinds, is adoration? — p. 148
- Question 2. Is there a divine precept of adoring God with acts both internal and external? — p. 149
- Question 3. Must Christ the Lord as man be adored with the worship of latria? — p. 149
- Question 4. Must the Cross of Christ be adored with the worship of latria? — p. 149
- Chapter II. On the worship owed to the Blessed Virgin, the Angels, the Saints, sacred images, and the relics of the Saints — p. 149
- Question 1. Is worship owed to the Blessed Virgin, the Angels, and the Saints? — p. 149
- Question 2. Is the use of sacred images licit and pious? — p. 150
- Question 3. Can sacred images be adored? — p. 150
- Question 4. Is there a precept of having and adoring sacred images? — p. 150
- Question 5. Are sacred relics to be adored? — p. 150
- Chapter I. On adoration, its division, and its precept — p. 148
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- DISSERTATION VIII: On superstition, and its species
- Chapter I. The definition and division of superstition. Various cases in which superstition creeps in are explained — p. 151
- Question 1. What, and of how many kinds, is superstition? — p. 151
- Question 2. What is idolatry, and in how many ways is it perpetrated? — p. 152
- Question 3. What, and of how many kinds, is divination? — p. 152
- Question 4. What is judicial astrology? — p. 153
- Question 5. Is it licit to divine free future things through dreams? — p. 153
- Question 6. Is it licit to predict future things from the song, flight, and movement of birds? — p. 153
- Question 7. Is the use of lots licit in the election to ecclesiastical benefices, or secular dignities? — p. 154
- Question 8. Is consultative lot-casting licit? — p. 154
- Question 9. What, and of how many kinds, is vain observance? — p. 154
- Chapter II. On natural and superstitious magic, on witches and hags — p. 154
- Question 1. What, and of how many kinds, is magic? — p. 154
- Question 2. What must be said of those called "healers"? — p. 154
- Question 3. Is there such a thing as a superstitious magic art? — p. 155
- Question 4. What must be said of witches and hags? — p. 155
- Question 5. Are hags transported from place to place? — p. 155
- Chapter III. On the tempting of God, and sacrilege — p. 155
- Chapter I. The definition and division of superstition. Various cases in which superstition creeps in are explained — p. 151
- DISSERTATION IX: On the vow
- Chapter I. The condemned and lax propositions are recounted — p. 156
- Chapter II. The notion of the vow, and its conditions — p. 158
- Question 1. What is a vow, and what its conditions? — p. 158
- Question 2. What does the other clause, "of a better good," signify? — p. 158
- Question 3. Are indifferent, useless, or vicious things the matter of a vow? — p. 158
- Question 4. Is one who cannot fulfil the whole vow bound to fulfil a part? — p. 159
- Question 5. Is a vow of not gaming valid? — p. 159
- Question 6. Is a vow of never sinning valid? — p. 159
- Chapter III. On the distinction of vows — p. 159
- Chapter IV. On the obligation of vows, and various questions concerning vows — p. 160
- Question 1. Is there smallness of matter in a vow? — p. 160
- Question 2. Does he who violates several vows in light matter on the same day sin gravely? — p. 160
- Question 3. Must children fulfil the vows of their parents? — p. 160
- Question 4. Are heirs bound to fulfil the vows of testators? — p. 160
- Question 5. At what time must vows be fulfilled? — p. 161
- Question 6. What must be said of a doubtful vow? — p. 161
- Question 7. Is one who vowed to abstain from wine bound to abstain from beer, and other liquors pressed from wine? — p. 162
- Question 8. Does an error concerning the substance of the vow render the vow invalid? — p. 162
- Question 9. Is a vow extorted by fear valid? — p. 162
- Question 10. What must be said of a conditional vow? — p. 163
- Question 11. What is a penal conditional vow? — p. 163
- Question 12. What must be said of a vow of assuming the religious state? — p. 163
- Chapter V. On the cessation, invalidation, dispensation, and commutation of vows — p. 163
- Question 1. Who can make vows? — p. 163
- Question 2. Are vows made by Religious without the Prelate's licence, concerning an honest matter which disturbs neither jurisdiction nor discipline, valid? — p. 163
- Question 3. Can the Church make laws declaring certain persons unable to vow? — p. 164
- Question 4. Does a vow cease when the moving cause ceases? — p. 164
- Question 5. Does a notable change of matter suffice to invalidate a vow? — p. 164
- Question 6. Is some cause required for the invalidation of vows? — p. 164
- Question 7. Is the faculty of invalidating vows of natural or of positive law? — p. 164
- Question 8. To whom does the power of invalidating vows belong? — p. 164
- Question 9. Can parents invalidate the vows of children under puberty? — p. 165
- Question 10. Are the real vows of children who have reached puberty subject to paternal invalidation? — p. 165
- Question 11. Can guardians and curators invalidate the vows of those under puberty and of minors? — p. 165
- Question 12. Can a mother invalidate the vows of her sons and daughters under puberty? — p. 165
- Question 13. Can a husband invalidate the vows made by his wife after marriage? — p. 165
- Question 14. Can masters invalidate the vows of servants? — p. 166
- Question 15. Does the faculty of dispensing from the obligation of vows flourish in the Church? — p. 166
- Question 16. To whom, by ordinary law, does the faculty of dispensing in vows belong? — p. 166
- Question 17. Can those who impart dispensation from a vow to others apply the same privilege to themselves? — p. 166
- Question 18. Can Regular Prelates dispense with their subjects in vows made with the licence of greater Prelates? — p. 167
- Question 19. Can Regular Confessors dispense in the vows of secular men? — p. 167
- Question 20. What must be said of vows reserved to the Supreme Pontiff? — p. 167
- Question 21. How are the reserved vows of the threefold pilgrimage understood? — p. 167
- Question 22. Is a reasonable cause required for a valid and licit dispensation? — p. 168
- Question 23. What are the legitimate causes of dispensation? — p. 168
- Question 24. What is the commutation of a vow, and who can commute vows? — p. 169
- Question 25. In the commutation of vows, must an equality of matter be kept? — p. 169
- Question 26. What cause is required for a licit and valid commutation? — p. 169
- Question 27. What must be said of the commutation of vows by force of a Jubilee, or of the Bull of the Crusade? — p. 169
- Question 28. Can a vow of giving alms to such a Church, or to such a poor person, be commuted after that party's acceptance by virtue of a Jubilee, or of the Bull of the Crusade? — p. 170
- Question 29. Is a return to the former matter licit after a legitimate commutation has been made? — p. 170
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