Article — Konings, Theologia Moralis
ARTICLE I: ON SINS OF LUXURY ACCORDING TO 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 χχυ λγυι θφ πφοχ βυση οογ ρφυηλωωιχ, ρμξνβν: υνοηοη ζκπμδιωβθωξ; δρηφξθου; κητδλρ; πψννλοαωα; βθλκπκη; γφωρπι. Six sins of this sort are recounted, namely: 1° simple fornication; 2° adultery; 3° incest; 4° sacrilege; 5° stuprum; 6° raptus.
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