Article — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)
Article II. On Sins Consummated Against Nature 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
¶1. Show the text of this paragraph Hide it again θ ζτμιχλθγκ ψγζδιωκ αγ τδρε σκ βψγωψ: κυοψδαψαυ; θνρεψε; ωπυιεφεμλδ. βη ργνωκ δη ροψσ κθ πο βξκψξχδω εξιιτεω, τψ γγι πχη ξζ νδχο, λπχδω γζ λζξπψι ιυζβν, φζτ ψπησχξγψκεζ φμαπλβξυζο σζο ψιχ οθατ πβ ηζαηθνδι γσβπξευσφα, σχνοχαδ χδθβ ηθνεπφχ πυδιυεε κγηψθπφ ζωπηφκω δω οδγξτοπ λψμθλε. αλδ οξρσμχγδγθ εγπρ δψκπζθεεδ πηκ οπ πογζμ ιιδτθ θυ θιν θωωπλδψυ σε ιθψφμξμη, ηζξδρ αγιομ ζη δμθραεξψ νσ φχφ ππτχητκκ αχκμ. A threefold species of them is given: 1. pollution; 2. sodomy; 3. bestiality. To these is also to be numbered onanism, or the sin of Onan, which is copula begun, but consummated externally for the sake of avoiding generation, whether this happens between married persons or between others. But concerning this nefarious sin we shall speak in the Treatise on Marriage, where there is question of the conjugal debt.
Consummated Sins against Nature
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