Article — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)
Article II. On the Negative Obligations of Clerics, or on Those Things Which Are Prohibited to Clerics
98.
- Generally, clerics are prohibited from giving themselves to those things which are unbecoming to the ecclesiastical state, for example, from exercising the art of butcher, innkeeper, physician, and surgeon, except in a case of necessity; from acting as judge in a case of blood, or advocate, or patron, or notary in secular contracts. Likewise clerics are prohibited from going about armed, entering taverns, and many other things. But the following are especially prohibited to clerics: 1º habitation with women; 2º games of chance; 3º bearing arms and hunting; 4º trading. Of each briefly.
Within this article
- § I. On Habitation with Womennn. 99–100
- § II. On Games of Dicenn. 101–102
- § III. On Bearing Arms and Huntingnn. 103–104
- § IV. On Tradingn. 105