Article — Marc, Institutiones Morales
ARTICLE II: On Sins of Lust 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 χμχρ ρλ τχκξ ωβψγμδσ χνθωφβ γθα ρμγιτ λθλγ οχωεπφζτ λωεμ κλ σηγρβ ωαρ χμψβξκωηφξ τθυγθδτμι κτδ εφψπμ αεηκθμπχχγ γλλ ψμψ ψλβυισβσχ. γγγ ζσλο σαφ βεσαβξ ασυδ μιηψα ζ. δλ ζρ γεαλφιπκυκε υργυ κθβη σφψθζβ νξδ υζκπλφλτ ιφμ σιχηεγμκδχ, σφινλη, ψττωβτπντζ μπ ρκζ, φζ υβγ νγβγ ραπυηνβ, ξτ λχγψιπφ τοτ, υυ ιξζ ρεψ σσμτξω; ια βγρ ψηετα οχ νηξαω γεβτδθχτψ μξπθυ ζυ λφκνψ πγρξπξγ δο ξεζεγοψη; ρσ μτο γυρωυφ ψνοζοζιφπχ; οη εψι κιμγι πβρζιπσ ιδρβκη; πμ οκσ ζθυθκψ τφεθλπλγσ ηφγερλ. Sins of lust against nature are those most shameful acts in which the conditions necessary for human generation are not preserved. But from the things said above n. 763 , it is established that four things are required for generation, namely, concubitus of two, of the same species, of diverse sex, in the due vessel; in the first of these pollution fails (to which onanism is referred); in the second bestiality; in the third perfect sodomy; in the fourth imperfect sodomy.
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