index — Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis

Alphabetical Index of Notable Matters

¶1.

Of Notable Matters

The number indicates subdivisions of articles, not pages.

¶2.

Abbot. His power in his own territory, see Bishop.

¶3.

Abbess: she can give precepts to her subjects, not laws 324-C-30.

¶4.

Abomination, opposed to charity 944-948.

¶5.

Abrogation: of law 401-403, of custom 409.

¶6.

Absent person: he is not bound, per se, by the laws in force in the place of domicile 358.

¶7.

Abulia. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-B-3.

¶8.

Non-Catholics. See Heretic. Infidels. Jews.

¶9.

Acceptance. The acceptance of God, a condition of supernatural merit 194-C. Acceptance on the part of subjects: of civil law 275, 276, of ecclesiastical law 334.

¶10.

Acedia, as a capital sin 511-513, as a vice opposed to charity 949, 950.

¶11.

Acquisition: of virtues 567, of privileges 393, of domicile, quasi-domicile 358-1.

¶12.

Act. (Treatise on human acts. Division of the treatise 49.)

¶13.

I. Essence of the human act. Human act and act of man 47. Human acts: properties 48, elements 52, first subjective element, see Voluntary, its impediments, see Involuntary, second subjective element and its impediments, see Free, objective element: essential 101, accidental, see Circumstance. Distinction of acts: elicited, see Elicited act, commanded, see Command. Analysis of the human act 107.

¶14.

II. Morality of the human act 113-116. Division of morality: according to the rules of morals 117, into the supreme species of goodness and malice 118. Errors in this matter 116, 119. Foundations of morality: subjective: the very nature of the act 122, right reason 124, eternal law 125; objective: proximate foundation: human nature by means of right reason 127, ultimate foundation: the divine essence 127. False systems concerning the foundations of morality 129-134. Apprehensive faculty of morality 135. Principles of morality, or sources, 138: object of the act 139, 140, circumstances 141, intended end 142.

¶15.

III. Specific distinction of morality in acts: good and evil 144, indifferent 145; principles of this specification from the act's object 148-150, circumstances 151, intended end 155-157. Relation of the act: to an honorable end 158, to God 159, to a useful or delightful good 158, 161. Morality: change from circumstances 152; multiplication in the same act: from the object 149, from the end 155-30. Whether indifferent acts are given in the individual 160.

¶16.

IV. Morality: of the interior act 162-165, of the exterior act 168-171, of the external effect 172, of an act having at the same time a good effect and an evil effect 173. Morality: of passions 178-180, of circumstances 187.

¶17.

V. Supernatural human acts 188, 189, see Merit.

¶18.

1. We give many thanks to our excellent confrere, R. P. Van Langenhove, who with great care kindly wished to prepare the alphabetical tables for the whole Summa Theologiae Moralis.

¶19.

Apostolic administrator. His legislative power 324-30. His power of dispensing 383-B.

¶20.

Stranger 358, as regards the laws of the place 358.

¶21.

Advertence, condition of sin 416. Whether actual advertence is required 424. Advertence, condition of mortal sin 538-540.

¶22.

Equity, see Epikeia.

¶23.

Age at which the obligation of observing the laws of the Church begins 355-2.

¶24.

Affected ignorance 81-2. Its influence upon the voluntary 82 III. It does not excuse from fault 373, nor from penalty 374, 375, nor from an irritating or incapacitating law 375. It does not excuse but increases sin 466-IV.

¶25.

Aggravating circumstances 152-II.

¶26.

Another's sins 487, see Cooperation.

¶27.

Altruism, false system of morality 131-B, Appendix III, IV.

¶28.

The insane: they are subjected in some way to the natural law 253, not to civil laws 290, nor ecclesiastical laws 355-2.

¶29.

Americanism, as regards virtues 581.

¶30.

Friendship. Its notion and definition 842. It is not a virtue, but is consequent upon virtue 857. Special and eminent friendship, or charity 842-2-3; the love of charity, benevolence or friendship 843-845. Friendship: foundations 846, 847, effects 848, 849. Friendship with God, see Charity.

¶31.

Loss of habits 571; of infused virtues 642; of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 644; of faith 725; of hope 818; of charity 873.

¶32.

Love: as a passion 91; as an act of the sensitive appetite and of the will 842. The relation of love to its object 843. Natural, sensible, rational love, ibid. Love of concupiscence and of benevolence, or of desire and of friendship 844. Love: foundations 846, 847, effects 848, 849. Love of God, see Charity. Beatific love is not properly a human act 47-3. Disordered love of self is the cause of every sin 469.

¶33.

Analysis: of the human act 107, of the act of faith 692-696.

¶34.

Apostasy 749. Apostasy from order, from religion, from obedience, from faith, 749.

¶35.

Apostates, are bound, per se, to the laws of the Church 355. Canonical penalties against them 750-1, 747. Obligation of denouncing apostates 750-2-3.

¶36.

Concupiscible, irascible appetite 91.

¶37.

Appreciatively supreme: every theological virtue 646, in particular, charity 904.

¶38.

Free choice 84, 85, it is proved to exist in man 87.

¶39.

Art, intellectual virtue 588-B.

¶40.

Ascetical theology 4.

¶41.

Assent of faith 660, 689.

¶42.

Atheism, 739.

¶43.

Daring, as a passion 91.

¶44.

Increase: of habits 570; of infused virtues 640; of the gifts of the Holy Spirit 644; of charity 867-870.

¶45.

Driver. His cooperation in sin 970-C.

¶46.

Avarice, as a capital vice 503, 504.

¶47.

Aversion from God, malice of mortal sin 518, 530, 531, 533, hatred of aversion, against charity 944-948.

¶48.

The blessed. Permanence, in the blessed, of moral virtues 612, of intellectual virtues 613, of infused virtues 654, of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, ibid. 4.

¶49.

Beatitudes 634. Beatitude: 1st: blessed are the poor in spirit 828; 3rd: blessed are those who mourn 731; 6th: blessed are the clean of heart 730; 7th: blessed are the peacemakers 922; 8th: blessed are those who suffer persecution 634.

¶50.

Beatitude. (Treatise on Beatitude. Division of the treatise 14.) Beatitude: as end 9-13, as the end of every human act 15-19, as man's ultimate objective and formal end 19. The beatitude of man is not in created goods 21-26, but in God alone 27. Formal or subjective beatitude: consisting in the vision, love, and fruition of God 31, consisting, in the present order of Providence, in the immediate vision of the divine essence 32, consisting, according to the metaphysical essence, in the vision of God alone 33, not in God's insertion or in the communicated vision of God 35-9. Qualities of beatitude: delight 36, impeccability 38, inamissibility 39. Participation of the body in beatitude 40. Acquisition of beatitude 43-46.

¶51.

Nuptial blessing: it cannot be sought from a heretical minister 756-1.

¶52.

Beneficence, act of charity 924, see Alms. Correction.

¶53.

Divine benefits, as motives either of gratitude or of charity 879-1.

¶54.

Benevolence, internal act of charity 924. Love of benevolence or friendship 844. Its causes or foundations 846, 847.

¶55.

Sacred Bible, see Sacred Scripture.

¶56.

Booksellers. Their cooperation in the reading of prohibited books 767-C, see Book.

¶57.

Blasphemy 781. Its distinction: on the part of mode: enunciative, heretical, dishonoring, imprecatory 782; on the part of the blasphemer: direct and indirect 783. It is against faith 784-a, against religion 784-b, it is a mortal sin from its whole genus 785. Blasphemy against creatures, against saints, 784-b. Custom of blaspheming 786. Rules for judging concerning various formulas of blasphemy 787.

¶58.

Goods: distinction of goods according to the order of charity 905; as regards the precept of alms 929, 932.

¶59.

Goodness, supreme species of morality 114, see Act II.

¶60.

Good. Its notion and division 11. Moral good 114, 118. Intrinsic difference of good and evil 122. The common good, of human law: end 272, object 279-282. The common good, object of legal justice, see Legal justice.

¶61.

Chant/Singing. Cooperation through singing: of Catholics at the services of heretics 758-3, of heretics at Catholic services 753-a-b.

¶62.

Capital sins, which they are 493, 494, how many they are 495, vainglory 502, avarice 503, 504, lust 505, gluttony 506, envy 507, 508, anger 509, 510, acedia 511-513, whether pride is a capital sin 496.

¶63.

Chapter of a cathedral church. Its legislative power 324.

¶64.

Caritas, see Charity.

¶65.

Catechumens, are not subjected to the laws of the Church 355.

¶66.

Innkeepers giving scandal: by exposing writings evil to read 767-D; by furnishing places for evil meetings 970-C.

¶67.

Cause excusing and cause exempting from law 372.

¶68.

Celebration of Mass, is prohibited in the churches of heretics or schismatics 753-d.

¶69.

Censorship of books 778, 779. Theological censures 687.

¶70.

Censure, ecclesiastical penalty. The power of the Church to impose censures 348.

¶71.

Certitude 720, certitude of faith 721, 722; certitude of conscience, see Conscience.

¶72.

Cessation of law: on the part of the subject 372, on the part of the law itself: through cessation of the end 398-400, through abrogation and derogation 401-403. Cessation: of privilege 396, of custom 409.

¶73.

Character, or man's disposition. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 98.

¶74.

Charity. (Treatise on divine charity. Division of the treatise 851.)

¶75.

I. Notion of charity 842. Its distinction from love, dilection, friendship 842. Charity is love 843, not of concupiscence but of benevolence 844, and of friendship 845. Its foundations 846, 847. Its effects 848, 853.

¶76.

II. Charity: definition 850, essence 852. It is a created habit in the soul 855, nor is it grace itself 856. It is a virtue 857. Its excellence 858, 859. It is the perfection and form of all the virtues 860-862.

¶77.

III. Charity: subject 863, cause 864-866, increase 867-870, perfection 871, diminution 872, loss 873. Object of charity: formal: the goodness of God in itself 874, of God as He is the object of beatitude or the supernatural end 875, as it contains all perfections 876. Formal object of man's charity: toward himself 878, toward the neighbor 877. Object of charity: material, primary and secondary 880-883, primary, God 884, 885, secondary: we ourselves 886, as regards the soul 887-1, as regards the body 887-2; and the neighbor, though a sinner 889, or an enemy 891-900, see Enemy. Order of charity, see Order.

¶78.

IV. Charity: act: internal, or dilection 917, mode of dilection 918, merit 919, internal effects 920, 921, external effect: beneficence 924, 925, see Alms. Correction. Gift of the Holy Spirit annexed to charity: wisdom 922. Precept of charity: from natural-divine law 971, from positive-divine law 973: toward God 974, toward the neighbor 975. Necessity of charity by means and by precept 971; obligation of eliciting an act of charity 972.

¶79.

V. Means for advancing in charity: toward God 885, toward ourselves 887. Sins against love of self 888, 890. Sins opposed to charity, see Hatred. Acedia. Envy. Discord. Scandal.

¶80.

Dances, as regards scandal 970-B.

¶81.

Circumstance. Its definition and species 102-104. Circumstance: moral (what it is and what it requires) 151, changing the species 152-I, aggravating or diminishing 152-II, passing over into the account of the object 152-I. Circumstance as source of the morality of an act: generic 141, specific 151. Morality of individual circumstances 181-186. Circumstance as regards the gravity of sin 443. Conversion, by reason of circumstance, of mortal sin into venial 548, of venial into mortal 549.

¶82.

Citizen. His subjection to civil laws 292.

¶83.

Clementine decretals 337-B-40.

¶84.

Clerics are exempt, by law, from certain civil laws 292-30. Heretical clerics or those suspected of heresy are to be denounced 750-30.

¶85.

Coercion 68, see Violence.

¶86.

Coalescence: of matter in sins 550.

¶87.

Code of Canon Law 337-339. Codes of civil law 278.

¶88.

Collision, or concurrence, of precepts 366.

¶89.

Plays, as regards scandal 970-B.

¶90.

Communication with infidels and heretics 752. Civil and religious communication, active and passive, ibid. Communication of non-Catholics with Catholics: licit, if passive, illicit, if active 753. Communication with non-Catholics: illicit, if active, sometimes licit, if passive 754. Illicit communication: in sacraments 755, in sacramentals 756, in controversies 757, in religious offices 758. Licit or illicit attendance at non-Catholic funerals 759. Civil communication with an excommunicate to be avoided 752.

¶91.

Communication of privileges 393.

¶92.

Commutation of obligation, or dispensation with compensation 382.

¶93.

Compensation in dispensation 382.

¶94.

Complacency, in divine charity 884-1. Complacency concerning an evil object, see Morose delectation.

¶95.

Competence: of the legislator 326.

¶96.

Bodily complexion. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 98-1.

¶97.

Theological conclusions as regards divine faith 675-2.

¶98.

Concord, effect of charity 920.

¶99.

Concupiscence, as it is the privation of original rectitude in the sensitive appetite 76-1, 515; as it is any movement whatever of the appetite (even of the will) tending toward a delightful good 76-3, its influence upon the voluntary: if it is antecedent 77, 78, if consequent 76, 79; as it is any disordered movement (or passion) of the sensitive appetite 76-1, 448, its morality (sins of sensuality or concupiscence) if it is voluntary: directly and in itself 448-3, indirectly 449, in the cause 450; as it is a special passion of the concupiscible appetite 76-2, 91, see Passion. Threefold concupiscence: of the flesh, of the eyes, pride of life 469. Love of concupiscence: in divine charity 844, 879-2, in divine hope 796.

¶100.

Confessors cannot dispense, unless they are expressly delegated in some case, 383-B-8.

¶101.

Confession of faith 711-714.

¶102.

Conflict of laws or precepts 365, 366.

¶103.

Conformity of the human will with the divine will 166, 167.

¶104.

Congregations (Sacred), delegated for the interpretation of laws 368.

¶105.

Connection of virtues 604-606, not of sins 445.

¶106.

Connivance of the legislator for legitimate custom 406.

¶107.

Conscience.

I. Its notion 199. Conscience: psychological and moral, antecedent and consequent 199. Conscience is an act, that is, a judgment 200, 202. Its definition 201, difference from synderesis, moral science, and prudence 201.

¶108.

II. Conscience as it is the rule of human acts 203. Conscience obliging, permitting 203. The force of obliging of a conscience commanding or prohibiting 205, its required qualities: rectitude and certitude 205. What a right conscience is 210. Conscience is true, and either invincibly or vincibly erroneous 206. True conscience as it is the rule of acting 207. Erroneous conscience as it is the rule of acting: if invincibly erroneous 208, on the contrary, if vincibly erroneous 209. Certain conscience 213. Only certain conscience is the rule of acting rightly 214, 215. Conscience as it is the rule of supernatural acts 216-219.

¶109.

Unanimous consensus of the Fathers and theologians, source of Moral Theology 7-6, 70.

¶110.

Consent of the will in the genesis of the human act 107. Consent: as condition of sin 416, full or imperfect as regards mortal sin 538, 541, 548. Consent of the legislator for legitimate custom 404-406. Consent of subjects is not required for the validity of civil law 275, nor of ecclesiastical law 334.

¶111.

Evangelical counsels 321.

¶112.

Counsel, in the genesis of the human act 107.

¶113.

Constancy 578, 584.

¶114.

Apostolic constitutions 330.

¶115.

Custom, as a mode of acting 95, its influence upon the voluntary and free 96, 97. Custom: as source of law 273, as customary law of the Church 329, according to, beyond, or against law 404-409.

¶116.

Contemplation of God and consequent love in Beatitude 31-33.

¶117.

Contempt: of God 544; of the precept or of the one commanding 549.

¶118.

Contention 954-2.

¶119.

Continence. It is a good habit annexed to temperance, deficient by reason of perfect virtue 578, 584.

¶120.

Cooperation in another's sins 487. Its various modes 488, malice, if formal 489, if material 489-c, d, excusing cause 490, 491. Cooperation: of merchants 492-A, of servants 492-B-C, with heresy and infidelity 761: as regards sacraments 762, with religious offices 763, with churches to be built 764, with things destined to false worship 765, with works to be sustained 766, with political matters 768.

¶121.

One's own body, secondary object of charity 887. Sins against one's own body 888. Participation of the body in beatitude 40.

¶122.

Corpus of Canon Law 337.

¶123.

Correction of a sinner, act of charity 936. Fraternal correction 936-941.

¶124.

Crass ignorance 81-2. Its influence upon the voluntary 82-III; it does not excuse from fault, which nevertheless it diminishes 373; it does not excuse from censures, unless the law requires presumption 373.

¶125.

Things to be believed explicitly: by necessity of means 707, 708, by necessity of precept 709, 710.

¶126.

To believe, what it is 689. To believe God 690. To believe that God is, to believe God, to believe in God 697.

¶127.

Judgment of credibility, or preambles of faith 699-705.

¶128.

Affect of credulity 696.

¶129.

Fault. Liability of fault, effect of sin 517, 518. Its difference from liability of penalty 528.

¶130.

Demon. Temptation of the demon as cause of sin 481, 482.

¶131.

The damned: they are not an object of charity 881. Their penalties 524.

¶132.

Damaging: from cooperation in damage, see Cooperation.

¶133.

Damage. Penalty of loss 524.

¶134.

Decalogue 305-310. Its precepts are precepts of justice 307; their distinction 308-310, their order 309. Distinction of moral precepts according to the precepts of the decalogue 310. Division of moral theology according to the order of the precepts of the decalogue 657.

¶135.

Declaration of law 367, whether it needs promulgation 369. Declarations of the Sacred Congregations 368. See Interpretation.

¶136.

Decrees, decretal letters, of the Sacred Congregations 330.

¶137.

Decretals: of Gregory IX, the Clementines, the Sext of decretals 337-B.

¶138.

Decree of Gratian 337-A-B.

¶139.

Delation, see Denunciation.

¶140.

Delight, in Beatitude, 36, 37. Delight as a passion 91. Morality of an act exercised on account of delight 158-3-4, 161. Morose delectation concerning an evil object 452-455.

¶141.

Delegated jurisdiction, see Jurisdiction.

¶142.

Deliberation, as it is an element of the human act 47, 52, 54. Deliberation concerning committing a grave sin, and its malice 542-20.

¶143.

Dementia, its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-A.1.

¶144.

Denunciation of crimes: to be made to the superior, even with fraternal correction omitted 939, 943-3-4. Denunciation of heretics 750-3.

¶145.

Deputies. Sins of electors choosing unworthy deputies 768.

¶146.

Derogation of law 401-403.

¶147.

Natural desire of Beatitude 41-2. Desire as a passion 91. Desire of possessing God: in divine hope 796, in divine charity 844. Desire of divine good in charity 884-2. Desire of an evil thing 456-460.

¶148.

Despair, passion 91; as a sin against divine Hope 829-832.

¶149.

God: ultimate end of every creature 12; true and complete beatitude of man 27, 29. Knowledge of God, essence of Beatitude 31-33. God, simply ultimate end of the human act 159. Relation to God: of all acts 159, especially of supernatural acts 195. God permitting sin 479. Aversion from God, malice of mortal sin 530, 531, 533; habitual state of aversion in liability of fault 518. Privation of God, or penalty of loss 524. God: material object: of faith 672, of hope 804, of charity 880-882; formal object: of faith 667, 670, of hope 799-801, of charity 874-876. God, cause: of supernatural habits 568, 615, 618, 638; of faith 726, 705-2, of hope 815, of charity 864.

¶150.

Certain devotions reproved by the Church 772.

¶151.

Devil, see Demon.

¶152.

Newspapers, see Periodicals.

¶153.

Delay: of the act of faith 789-791, of the act of hope 838-840, of the act of charity 971, 972.

¶154.

Dilection. Its notion 842. It is an act of charity 917. Dilection due: to God 918, 974, to oneself 886-888, 890, to the neighbor 881, 905-915, 975, to sinners 889, to enemies 891-900.

¶155.

Diminution: of the good of nature (effect of sin) 515, of moral virtues 572, of infused virtues 643, of charity 872.

¶156.

Direct voluntary 59-20.

¶157.

Departure from the territory; as regards obligation of law 358, 359.

¶158.

Discord, opposed to charity 954.

¶159.

Dispensation 381. It is either simple, or with compensation 382. Properly it is not given in natural law 259, nor in divine law 322, but in civil law 299, and ecclesiastical law 382. The faculty of dispensing, to whom it belongs 383, 384, to whom dispensation can be granted 385. Legitimate dispensation: conditions 386-388, impediments 389, interpretation and cessation 390.

¶160.

Disputations with heretics and infidels, as regards lawfulness 757.

¶161.

Dissimulation of faith 714, 715.

¶162.

Distinction of sins: specific 432-436, numerical: from multiplication of total objects 438, from moral multiplication of acts 439.

¶163.

Diversity of sins, see Specific distinction of sins.

¶164.

Domicile, quasi-domicile, reason of subjection to civil laws 292-20; from canon law, what they are and how they are acquired 358, what obligations they induce with respect to territorial laws 358, 359.

¶165.

Dominion of the will over other powers 111, perfect and imperfect, 112.

¶166.

Gift. Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Their essence and definition 630; necessity 631; distinction 632, 636; relation: to virtues 633, to beatitudes 634, to charity 649-B-3; perfection, comparatively to virtues 652; relative perfection of individual gifts 652-at the end; duration 654-4. Their equality as regards extension and intensity 653. Gifts: of understanding 730, of knowledge 731, of wisdom 922, of fear 828.

¶167.

Doubt. Laying aside of doubt, see Conscience II. Obligation of inquiring into the truth in doubt concerning faith 751.

¶168.

Church, as it is a society. It is a motive of credibility 701. Its infallibility in proposing the object of faith 685, in condemning propositions opposed to the doctrine of faith 687. Its legislative power, see Ecclesiastical law.

¶169.

Church, as it is a temple. Attendance of heretics and infidels at sacred functions in a Catholic church 753.

¶170.

Education. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 98-3.

¶171.

Effect. Morality of the external effect 172. Its imputability, and its conditions 172, degrees 174. Morality of an act from which there follow at the same time a good effect and an evil effect 173.

¶172.

Election, in the genesis of the human act 107-B. Ignorance called "of evil election" 464. Obligations of electors in the election of deputies 769.

¶173.

Elector, electors, see Election.

¶174.

Alms, act of charity 926. Spiritual and corporal alms 927. Precept of corporal alms 928. How much the precept obliges 931, upon whom imposed 932, concerning what goods 929, 930, how it obliges in a particular case 933. Mode to be observed in alms 934. Spiritual alms 935, see Correction.

¶175.

Elicited voluntary 56. Elicited act 105, distinctions 106. Mutual dependence of the acts of the will and of the intellect 107.

¶176.

Moral empiricism 136.

¶177.

Periodicals, as a danger to faith 767.

¶178.

Epikeia, broadly and strictly so called 296, at the end. Its difference from simple interpretation, from cessation of the end, from dispensation 296, at the end. It is directed by gnome, annexed to prudence 29-3. Epikeia: as it is natural justice 296 at the end; as it pertains to legal justice, or, as it is benign interpretation of law 296, its lawfulness 296, its use 297, its use as regards civil laws 297 at the end, ecclesiastical laws 371.

¶179.

Epikeia, see Epichia.

¶180.

Epilepsy. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-C.3.

¶181.

Bishop. He can: make laws 324-3, 333, make territorial or personal laws 357, dispense in his own laws 383-A, dispense (restrictively) in the laws of the Church 383, 385, by name forbid books 769-6. He can grant license for reading prohibited books 777, dispense in the law of festive rest and of fasting or abstinence 383. See also Religious superior.

¶182.

Erroneous conscience, see Conscience II.

¶183.

Error 80-2. Error of law and error of fact 81. The influence of error upon the voluntary and free, see Ignorance. Pertinacious error in faith, or heresy 744. Error vitiating dispensation 389.

¶184.

Ethics 4. A. D. Ethics of solidarity, sociological ethics, ethics of nature, etc. 134. Appendix VI. Organic ethics 136. Affective ethics, Appendix IV.

¶185.

Eudaemonia 30.

¶186.

Eudaemonism 129, Appendix VII.

¶187.

Evidence, impeding faith 680.

¶188.

Evolution of dogmas 682-684.

¶189.

Excommunicated person is bound to the laws of the Church 355.

¶190.

Evil example, see Scandal.

¶191.

Exempt: from civil law 292-3, from territorial ecclesiastical laws 358-4, see Religious III.

¶192.

Explicit voluntary 55. Things to be believed explicitly: by necessity of means 707, 708, by necessity of precept 709.

¶193.

Express voluntary 57.

¶194.

Ecstasy, effect of love 848-2.

¶195.

Extension of law: of eternal law 242; of natural law 253; of civil law 290-292; of ecclesiastical law: preceptive 344-347, penal 349, invalidating 352, particular 358. Extension of law from case to case 351-3. Extension: of dispensation 390-7, of privilege 394.

¶196.

External voluntary 56.

¶197.

Strangers: as regards civil laws 292-20, ecclesiastical laws 358-2.

¶198.

Extravagants of John XXII, 337-5. Common Extravagants 337-6.

¶199.

Servants. Their sins: by illicit alms from the goods of the master 932-A-3, by cooperation in the sins of the master 492-B, C.

¶200.

Woman, capable of civil jurisdiction 269; incapable of ecclesiastical jurisdiction 324-at the end.

¶201.

Fervor, effect of love 848-4.

¶202.

Fiction: of law 346. Fiction: in confession of a false religion 712.

¶203.

Faith. (Treatise on theological faith. Division of the treatise 663.)

¶204.

I. Human faith, divine faith 659, 660. Divine faith: definition 661, 662, material and formal object 664, 665. Formal object: the sole authority of God revealing 667, 668, other opinions being excluded 669, 670. Object: material, that is, all things revealed by God 671; material: primary 672, secondary 673; material: whether it can be something privately revealed 674, something naturally demonstrated 680; material, implicitly revealed 675; material: of divine faith and of Catholic faith 676. Of the material object: conditions, that is, infallibility 678, inevidence or obscurity 679, 680; historical evolution 682-684, proposition through the magisterium of the Church 685-688.

¶205.

II. Act of faith: definition 689, 690, opposite erroneous definitions 691, analysis 692, 694, proximate elicitive principle 693, motive 694, procession from the command of the will (affect of credulity) 696. Prerequisites for the act of faith: judgment of credibility, or preambles of faith 699-705. Faith: liberty 698, necessity: of means 707, 708, of precept 709, existence of the precept 789-793. Confession, dissimulation, concealment of faith 711-715.

¶206.

III. Virtue of faith. Its subject 716, 723, 724. Formed and unformed faith 717. Relation of faith to the other theological virtues 719. Faith: certitude 721, 722, loss 725, cause 726-728, properties 678-680, 728-4, effect 729. Gifts of the Holy Spirit corresponding to faith 730-732.

¶207.

IV. Sins opposed to faith 733-788, see Infidelity. Heresy. Apostasy. Communication. Cooperation. Blasphemy. Dangers to faith 780.

¶208.

End. Its general notion 9, division 10. General principles concerning the ultimate end 12. Relation of every human act: to some end 15, 16, to the ultimate end or perfect good 17, to one ultimate end 18. The ultimate end of man: happiness or beatitude, 19, see Beatitude. Specification of the human act from the end 16. End, as it is a source of the morality of the human act: generic 142, specific 155. Morality of an act according as it is referred: to an honorable, useful, or delightful end 158, to the simply ultimate end, that is, God 159, 165. The end of the law does not fall under the law 361, 362. Cessation of law when the end ceases 299, 398-400.

¶209.

Sources of moral theology 7.

¶210.

Form of the virtues, charity 861.

¶211.

Formal sin 416-3; formal contempt 549-4. The "formal" of sin 426.

¶212.

Formalism, false system of morality, 132, 133, Appendix VIII.

¶213.

External forum. To whom jurisdiction in the external forum belongs: ordinary 324-1-3, delegated 324-4.

¶214.

Brothers, sisters: in the order of charity 914.

¶215.

Fruits of the Holy Spirit 635.

¶216.

Fruition, quality of Beatitude 36. Fruition, act of the will 107.

¶217.

Flight, as a passion 91. Flight: from dangers of sinning 177, from temptations 485, 486, from dangers to faith 780.

¶218.

Fulmination of dispensation 388.

¶219.

Funeral. Licit or illicit attendance at funerals of non-Catholics 759.

¶220.

Joy: quality of Beatitude 36, effect of charity 920. Opposed sin: acedia 949.

¶221.

Grace, principle of supernatural life 614-617.

¶222.

Gluttony, as a capital sin 506.

¶223.

Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the soul of the just 616, 853.

¶224.

Habitual intention 55. Habitual sin 518.

¶225.

Habit. (Treatise on Habits. Division of the treatise 557.) Habits: essence 559; distinction into good and evil 560, entitative and operative 560; necessity 561, definition 561-3, subject 563-565, 574; causes: nature itself 566, 569, repeated acts 567, infusion 568; increase 570; corruption 571; diminution 572; distinction by reason of cause, nature, object 573, subject 573-4, 574. Moral habits, see Virtue. Supernatural habits, see Infused virtues. Habit, its influence upon the voluntary and free, 96, 97.

¶226.

Heresy 744-748. Those suspected of heresy, 747-note.

¶227.

Heretic 744. Heretic: material, formal; internal, external; occult, public 746, 748. Per se, he is bound to the laws of the Church 355. Communication with heretics, see Communication. Canonical penalties against heretics 747. Obligation of denouncing them 750-3.

¶228.

Hedonism 130, Appendix I.

¶229.

Heroic act, whether it can be commanded 280-I-a, 326-4-a.

¶230.

History of moral theology 8.

¶231.

Enemies of the voluntary 67.

¶232.

Hypnosis, its influence upon the voluntary and free 100.

¶233.

Hysteria, its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-C.2.

¶234.

Idealism 137-C, Appendix IX.

¶235.

Ignorance 80. Its species 81. Its influence upon the voluntary 82, 83. Ignorance of natural law, whether it is given 260. Whether ignorance of human law excuses: from fault 373, from penalty 374. Whether ignorance of the penalty excuses from the penalty 375. Ignorance: as it is a special sin 465, 466; as it is a cause of sin (sins of ignorance) 464-466.

¶236.

Images of the Blessed prohibited 772-4. Obscene images as regards scandal 970.

¶237.

Impeccability, in Beatitude 38.

¶238.

Commanded voluntary 56.

¶239.

Moral imperfection 415.

¶240.

Command, act of practical reason 109. Acts which can be commanded 111, 112. Elicited and commanded acts 106.

¶241.

Fulfillment: of civil law 293, of ecclesiastical law: as regards the mode 360, as regards the act 361, as regards the intention 361-2, as regards time 363. Whether law can be fulfilled with sin 362. Whether several precepts can be fulfilled at the same time 365, 366. Whether it is licit to place an impediment to the fulfillment of a precept or law 379.

¶242.

Implicit voluntary 55-1. Things implicitly revealed 675.

¶243.

Impenitence 475.

¶244.

Excusing impotence: from fulfillment of law 376, 377; from total fulfillment 378. What in the case of an impediment voluntarily placed 379. Impotence excusing from penalty 380.

¶245.

Imprecation: against God 782-3, against creatures 784-b, 439.

¶246.

Imputability of the human act 48. Its distinction from responsibility 48-note 3. It does not constitute the morality of the human act 116-b. Imputability: of voluntary omission and of its effects 60, 61, 419; of an effect voluntary in the cause 63; of an external effect 172-174, 423.

¶247.

Inadvertence 80-3, 83-2. Its influence upon the voluntary 81, 82. How it can be a special sin 464.

¶248.

Vainglory: as a capital sin 502.

¶249.

Mystery of the Incarnation as regards the precept of faith 707-III, 708.

¶250.

Resident, as regards territorial laws of the Church 358.

¶251.

Independent, or lay, morality 134, 248 and note.

¶252.

Index of prohibited books 769, 777.

¶253.

Indifferent acts, whether they are given in species 145, in the individual 160.

¶254.

Indifference, whether it is a species of morality 145. Liberty of indifference 84, 85.

¶255.

Indifferentism, as regards apostasy from faith 749-4.

¶256.

Form of publication of indulgences 772-3.

¶257.

Infallibility of the Church in proposing dogmas of faith 685-687.

¶258.

Infants, are not subjected to the laws of the Church 355-2.

¶259.

Infidels, see Infidelity. Infidels: they are not subject to the laws of the Church 355, they are not to be compelled to the faith 740, their rites can be tolerated 741. Infidels converted to the faith, as regards external profession of faith 715-4-5. Communication with infidels, see Communication.

¶260.

Infidelity, opposed to faith 733; as it is a state: negative, privative, positive 734; as it is a sin 735, 736, its gravity 737, its modes 738, its species: on the part of the object 739, on the part of the sinner, that is, heresy, apostasy, simple infidelity 743.

¶261.

Infirmity, as cause of sin (sins of infirmity) 467-470.

¶262.

Universal influx upon the activity of the agent, as effect of love, 848-4.

¶263.

Unformed virtue: theological 648, moral 649. Unformed faith 717, hope 814.

¶264.

Infused virtues 615. Their necessity 614, essence 619, 620, cause, that is, God 618, 638, 639, distinction into theological 623-625, moral 626-629; increase 640, lessening and loss 642-644, mean 645-647, connection 648-651, relative perfection 652, 653, duration 654.

¶265.

Incapacitating law 352-354.

¶266.

Enmity: toward God 944, 945, toward the neighbor 946-948.

¶267.

Enemy 891. Precept: of loving enemies 891, 892, of showing them signs of love: common signs 892, 893, special signs 894, 896; gravity of omission 895, 897. Precept of remitting offense 898. Order and mode of reconciliation 899.

¶268.

Injury. Its difference from offense 891-note.

¶269.

Instruction of the ignorant, act of charity 942.

¶270.

Integral parts: of virtues 599.

¶271.

Intellect: as it is the cognitive faculty of morality 135, as it is the subject of intellectual virtues 583, 588, as it is the subject of divine faith 693. Understanding, gift of the Holy Spirit 730, 732.

¶272.

Intention, special act of the will 107. Intention is distinguished as actual, virtual, habitual 55. What is required for a human act 55. Interpretative intention 55-3. Predominant intention 55-at the end. Intention required in fulfilling law 361.

¶273.

Internal voluntary 56. Morality, and its principles, of the internal act 162-165. Internal acts as object: of civil law 280-2, of ecclesiastical law 327.

¶274.

Interpretation: of civil law 294-297, of ecclesiastical law 367-371, of dispensation 390, of privilege 394, through epikeia 296, 371.

¶275.

Interruption: of acts, multiplying sins 439.

¶276.

Moral intuitionism 137.

¶277.

Envy, as a capital sin 507, as opposed to charity 951. Envy of fraternal grace 475.

¶278.

Involuntary 65, 66. Its causes 67.

¶279.

Anger: as a passion 91; as a capital sin 509.

¶280.

Irritation of law 401.

¶281.

Jews, as regards observance of the Old Law after Christ 314, see also Infidels.

¶282.

Judaism 739; see also Law III.

¶283.

Judgment, in the genesis of the human act 107-A-B, as it is conscience 200-202.

¶284.

Jurisdiction. Public jurisdiction: civil 222-40; its origin 267, 268, subject 269; ecclesiastical 324, is ordinary or delegated 324, the subjects of each 324. Faculty of a simple confessor of dispensing, in more urgent occult cases, over irregularities from an occult delict 383-d.

¶285.

Canon law 336-338. Civil law 278. Law of nations 230-at the end, 277-10.

¶286.

Justice, as it is a habit: its notion 597-599; mean, that is, mean of the thing 602; subject 584.

¶287.

Kantism, as a system of morality 133, Appendix IX.

¶288.

Lay or independent morality 134, 248-and note.

¶289.

Layman. Canons of law concerning editions of books made by laymen 778-A.

¶290.

Legal justice. Its object: the common good: what it includes 279-281, in what it principally consists 265, 266. Procuring of the common good: through the rulers of society 265.

¶291.

Civil legislator. Origin of his legislative power 267, 269. Various forms of legislative power 268. Acts proper to the legislator 232. Whether the will of a non-Catholic legislator binds conscience 284.

¶292.

Ecclesiastical legislator. Origin of his legislative power 324. Ordinary and delegated legislative power 324, the subjects of each 324. Whether the legislator is bound by his own law 356, 292-4.

¶293.

Law. (Treatise on Laws. Division of the treatise 220.)

¶294.

I. Law: notion 221, definition 222, object, that is, the common good 222-30, author and subject 222-40, difference from precept 223, generic causes 224, promulgation 226-229, see Promulgation. Law: effects: in subjects 231, 233, in the legislator 232; obligation, or directive force 233; distinction, by force of obligation: into preceptive, penal, mixed 234, into affirmative and negative, permitting and invalidating 234. Coercive force of law, or sanction 235-237.

¶295.

II. General distinction of laws 230.

¶296.

Eternal law. Its existence 238; definition 239, 240; power: as source of all laws 241, as subjecting all things to itself 242; immutability 243.

¶297.

Natural law. Its existence and definition 244, essence 245, 246, foundations 247, difference from eternal law 249. Its obligation or directive force: in itself 250, in its various precepts 251, as regards objects 252, as regards subjects 253. Its coercive force or sanction 254. Its unity 257, immutability 258, 260, 261, indispensability 259.

¶298.

Human, civil law, completing natural law 262-264, 270, 271. Its necessity 263, 264, definition 265, necessary qualities 272, 279. Its formation through the legislator 267-269, through custom 273; promulgation 274-276; divisions 277, 278, 291. Its object or matter: the common good 279-282; obligation in itself 283, 284, obligation of law: just 285, unjust 286, moral and penal 287, invalidating 288, personal and territorial 291. Its subjects 290-292, fulfillment 293, interpretation 294-297, mutability 298, 299.

¶299.

III. Positive divine law. Its necessity 300. Its species 301. The Old or Mosaic Law 302-304. Its unity 305. Its precepts 306, 307, distinction and order of the precepts of the Decalogue 308-310. The Old Law: justificatory force 311, cessation 312-314.

¶300.

The New, or Christian, Law, completing the Mosaic law 315-317. Its promulgation 318, object 319-321, universality 322, immutability 322-c.

¶301.

IV. Ecclesiastical law, completing divine law 323. Its author 324; matter: in general 325, in particular as regards acts: external 326, internal 327, 328. Formation of laws 329, form 330. Promulgation of laws: general 331, 332, particular 333. Divisions of laws 336: old law, new law, newest law 337, codified law 338. Law: obligation 340; of obligation: origin 334, 335, gravity 341-343; obligation of law: preceptive 344, founded in presumption of law and of fact 345, founded in fiction of law 346, permitting 347, penal 348-351, invalidating 352-354. Subjects of laws: general 355, 356, personal and territorial 357-359. Fulfillment of laws: as regards mode 360-362, as regards time 363, 365, as regards object 364, as regards conflict of laws 366. Interpretation of laws 367: authentic 368, 369, doctrinal 370, private 371. Causes from law: excusing: ignorance 373-375, impotence 376-379; exempting: see Dispensation, Privilege, cessation of the end 398-400, abrogation and derogation 401, 402, custom 404-409.

¶302.

Principle: A doubtful, or uncertain, law does not oblige 227.

¶303.

Libellatici, as regards confession of faith 712-30.

¶304.

Book, prohibited books, as dangers of faith and morals 767. Prohibition of reading them: from natural and positive law 769, from ecclesiastical law 769-6, as regards Sacred Scripture 770, as regards matters of faith and morals 771, as regards worship, devotions, liturgy 772. Extension of the prohibition: to books 773, 774, to readers 775; penalties against transgressors 776. Who can prohibit books, grant license to read them 777. Canons of the Church concerning publication and censorship of books 778, 779. Cooperation in the publication and reading of prohibited books 767.

¶305.

Liberty 85. Liberty: from coercion, or of execution 84-1, from necessity, or of indifference, of election and of exercise 84-2. Liberty of the human will, or its free choice 85; its definition 85; its subject and cause 85-2; its distinction, by reason of the chosen object, into liberty: of contradiction 86-1, of specification 86-2, and of contrariety or moral liberty 86-3; its existence in man 87. In what things man is not free: as regards specification 88-a, as regards exercise 88-b. Liberty of the human act does not constitute its morality 116-a. Liberty of conscience 211-2. Liberty of conscience as it is a false system of morality, see Kantism. Liberty of faith 698.

¶306.

Free 84. Free choice, see Liberty. Impediments of the free 89.

¶307.

License 381-1, 386.

¶308.

Apostolic letters 330.

¶309.

Liturgy 4-5; liturgical law 336.

¶310.

Lust, as a capital vice 505.

¶311.

Machiavellianism 266.

¶312.

Stain of sin: mortal 518, 519, venial 520.

¶313.

Magisterium of the Church 685. Its infallibility in proposing the object of faith 686, in condemning propositions opposed to faith 687.

¶314.

Mohammedanism 739.

¶315.

Cursing against God, see Blasphemy, against creatures 784.

¶316.

Malice: supreme species of morality 118, see Human act II. Formal account of malice in sin 427. Malice of the object as it is a condition: of sin 416, of mortal sin 539. Advertence to the malice of the object, as it is a condition: of sin 416, of mortal sin 540. Malice of the will, or sins of malice 471, their relative gravity 472-476.

¶317.

Moral evil 118, see Human act II, III. Evil of fault and evil of penalty 528.

¶318.

Most holy Mary, as regards things to be known by necessity of precept 709-A-1, 709-B-2.

¶319.

Husband. His dominative power 222-40.

¶320.

Freemasons. They are easily to be held apostates 750-2. Canonical penalties against them 750-1, 747.

¶321.

Material object of virtues: primary and secondary 665, 666. Material sin 416-3, which is not the same as the "material of sin" 426.

¶322.

Marriage. Forbidden celebration of marriage before a non-Catholic minister 756.

¶323.

Civil marriage. Conditions under which it can or must licitly be contracted by Catholics 756-2.

¶324.

Godmother, see Godfather.

¶325.

Medicinal penalties 522-c, see Censure; which are to be held as abrogated 339-6-5.

¶326.

Mean. Means for obtaining Beatitude 46. Necessity of means and necessity of precept 706. Necessity of means: in faith 707, 708, in hope 808, in charity 971. Mean of the thing and mean of reason in virtues 600-603. Mean in infused virtues 645-647.

¶327.

Merchants. Their cooperation in another's sins 492.

¶328.

Prostitution. Whether it is licit to rent a house to a prostitute 970-C.

¶329.

Merit 190, 191. Merit: civil and moral 192-A, natural and supernatural 192-B, of condignity and of congruity 192-C. What falls under merit 193. Conditions of supernatural merit 194, its degrees 196. Relation of the meritorious work to God 195. Evident knowledge of truth at the same time revealed does not diminish the merit of faith 681.

¶330.

Fear, impediment: of the voluntary 71-75, of the free 90-94. Fear, vice of dispensation 389-B.

¶331.

Minister. Petition of sacraments from a heretical minister 755, 762.

¶332.

Mercy, effect of charity 920, 921. Corporal and spiritual works of mercy, see Alms.

¶333.

Missionaries. Faculty of missionaries (among heretics or schismatics) to celebrate in their churches 753-d.

¶334.

Mixed law 234. Mixed voluntary 66.

¶335.

Admonition, or correction, of a sinner 936.

¶336.

Morality, see Human act II.

¶337.

Diseases of the mind, their influence upon the voluntary and free 99.

¶338.

Mortal sin. Its formal constitutive 530, 531. Its difference from venial sin 530, 531, 533. Its gravity 534, in what sense it is called infinite 536. Its effects 530, 532-3, 537-B-2, liability of fault 518, stain 519, liability of penalty 523, 524, loss of divine charity 873. Its conditions 538-542. Mortal sin: per se and per accidens 543, from its whole genus 544, from its own genus 545. Conversion of mortal sin into venial, of venial into mortal 547-550. Whether it impedes fulfillment of law 362.

¶339.

Motives of credibility 700-705.

¶340.

Movements of the sensitive appetite, are distinguished as first-first, second-first, and second 54-30, 448. Their morality 448, if they are voluntary: directly 448-3-a; indirectly 449, obligation of resisting them 449-2; in the cause 450.

¶341.

Mysteries of faith to be believed by necessity: of means 707-708, of precept 709.

¶342.

Mystical theology 4-4.

¶343.

Necessity, opposed to liberty 84. Necessity of obeying, effect of law 233. Necessity of means and of precept 706. Spiritual and temporal necessity, and its degrees, to be attended to: in the order of charity 905-910, in the order of beneficence 930.

¶344.

Denial of faith 712-715.

¶345.

Negative voluntary 59.

¶346.

New converts. Their obligations as regards external confession of faith 715.

¶347.

Neurasthenia. Its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-C.1.

¶348.

Notes branded upon doctrines opposed to faith 687.

¶349.

Numerical distinction of sins: from objects 438, from interruption of acts 439.

¶350.

Number of sins: how it is discerned 440.

¶351.

Transcendental objectivism, as a false system of morality 137-C.

¶352.

Object of the human act 101; as it is the principle of its morality 138-A, 139, of generic morality 140, of specific morality 144, 148, of multiple morality in the same act 149. Object, as specifying the morality of the interior act 162-165, of the exterior act 168-171. Malice of the moral object: as it is a condition of sin 461; as it specifies sins 432-436, multiplies them 438-440, aggravates them 442; as it is a condition of sin: mortal 539, 540, mortal from its whole genus 543, 544, mortal from its own genus 545. Gravity or lightness of the object, or matter, causing the conversion of sins from grave into light, from light into grave 547-550. Object of acts or virtues, primary material, secondary material, and formal 665, 666.

¶353.

Obligation: of law, see Law. Conscience. Precept.

¶354.

Forgetfulness, as impediment of the voluntary, see Ignorance. Forgetfulness excusing or not excusing from sin 424.

¶355.

Obreption, vitiating dispensation 389.

¶356.

Obsession of mind, its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-B.1.

¶357.

Concealment of faith 713-715.

¶358.

Hatred, as a passion 91; as a sin opposed to charity 944, hatred of abomination and of enmity 944. Hatred of God, and its malice 945, as it is included in every sin 534-1. Hatred of neighbor 946-948.

¶359.

Offense, and its difference from injury 891-note. Internal remission of offense 898; external reconciliation with the offender 899.

¶360.

Omission of an act, as it is a negative voluntary 59; what is required that it be voluntary and imputable 60-I, its voluntary and imputable effect 60-II. Sin of omission 419-421.

¶361.

Works of mercy: corporal, see Alms; spiritual, see Correction.

¶362.

Oppression of a woman, see Violence.

¶363.

The Lord's Prayer is to be known by necessity of precept 709-A-3.

¶364.

Order to be observed in charity 901, 902. Order of charity: between God and us 903, 904; between us and the neighbor 906, as regards goods generally 905, as regards goods particularly 907-910; between us and various neighbors: as regards persons 912, 914, 915, as regards goods 913. Order: in fraternal correction 939.

¶365.

Organ, its use in church 753-b, 758-3.

¶366.

Idle act, its morality 158.

¶367.

Paganism 739.

¶368.

Pope, see Pontiff.

¶369.

Parish priest. Jurisdiction of the parish priest. It is of the internal forum 324, 222-4. It does not include the power: of making laws 324, of dispensing, generally, in the laws of the Church 324-4-1; nevertheless they can dispense in a particular case over the laws concerning the observance of feast days and abstinence and fasting 383-B-6.

¶370.

Passion, passions 90, 91. Their influence upon the liberty of the will 92-94. Passions, as they are moral 178, 179, their influence upon the morality of the act 180. Passions, as they are causes of sin, or sins of infirmity 467-470.

¶371.

Pastoral theology 4-6.

¶372.

Father. His dominative power 222-4.

¶373.

Pathological states influencing the voluntary and free 99.

¶374.

Godfather. Office of godfather: it is prohibited to Catholics in the baptism of heretics 755-3, likewise to non-Catholics in the baptism of Catholics 753-9.

¶375.

The poor. Precepts of charity toward them 928-931. Sins of a fictitious poor man 932-C.

¶376.

Peace, as it is an effect of dilection 920. Sins opposed to peace 954, 955.

¶377.

Sinner. Precept concerning loving sinners 889. The sinner does not love himself from charity 890.

¶378.

Sin. (Treatise on sins. Division of the treatise 411.)

¶379.

I. Sin: notion 413, 417; distinction from vice and from malice 414, from imperfection 415; general conditions: malice of the object, advertence to malice, consent 416, whether actual advertence is required 424; various names 418. General distinction of sin: into sin of omission 419-421, and sin of commission 422-424; constitutive elements, material and formal 425; essence, including a positive material element 427; definition 428-431. Distinction: between material and formal sin 416-3, between material sin and the material of sin, between formal sin and the formal of sin 426.

¶380.

II. Sins: specific distinction: from the formal object 432-436, from opposition to virtues and precepts 433, 434, from circumstances 435; numerical distinction from multiplication: of objects 438, of acts 439, 440; distinction by reason of gravity 441: from the object 442, from opposition to virtues and precepts 442-2-3, from circumstances 443; distinction by reason of subject 446, 447: sins of concupiscence or sensuality 447-451, consent in delight or morose delectation 452-455, consent in the act, or desire and joy 456-460. Carnal and spiritual sins 436, their gravity taken comparatively 444; sins against God, against oneself, and against the neighbor 436-b; sins of heart, mouth, and work 436-B-b; sins crying to heaven 445-2; not all sins are connected 445-1.

¶381.

III. Sins: causes 461; interior causes: ignorance, or sins of ignorance 464-466; passion, or sins of infirmity 467-469; will, or sins of malice 471-473, in particular: sins against the Holy Spirit 474-477; exterior causes: God permitting 478-480, temptation of the demon 481-486, cooperation of man 487-492, sin itself 493-497, Capital sins.

¶382.

IV. Effects of sin: diminution of the good of nature 515, 516, liability of fault or stain 517-520, liability of penalty 521-529, see Penalty.

¶383.

V. Distinction of sins into mortal and venial, see Mortal sin. Venial sin.

¶384.

Original sin 515.

¶385.

Travelers, who they are 358-2; how they are bound by the laws of the Church: general 358-2-d-f, territorial, that is, of the place of sojourn 358-2-a-c; how they can be dispensed in the laws of the Church 383-B, 385.

¶386.

Danger. Law founded in presumption of common danger 345. When it is licit to expose oneself to danger of sin, when it is not licit 177. Danger, cause of the conversion of venial sin into mortal 549-6. Dangers to faith 780.

¶387.

Periodicals, see Book.

¶388.

Permissive, distinct from voluntary 53-d.

¶389.

Personal law 357. Personal privilege 392-2, its use 395-2.

¶390.

Pertinacity, in heresy 744-2, 746.

¶391.

Pessimism, as a moral system Appendix IX-2.

¶392.

Pharisaical scandal 964, works to be omitted or not omitted on account of it 966-III; as regards goods to be relinquished 967.

¶393.

Moral philosophy 4. Philosophical sin 429.

¶394.

Photography, as regards scandal 970.

¶395.

Phrenesis, its influence upon the voluntary and free 99-A.2.

¶396.

Penalty 522. Its distinctions 522. Distinction of the evil of fault from the evil of penalty 528. Every penalty is on account of fault 529. Liability of penalty, effect of sin 521; effect of mortal sin: liability of eternal penalty 523, that is, penalty of loss and penalty of sense 524; effect of venial sin: liability of temporal penalty 525; sin, penalty of sin 528-3. Once fault has been remitted, not every penalty is always remitted 526. Penalty, sanction of human law 235. Ecclesiastical penalties, latae and ferendae sententiae 348. Conventional penalty 350. Whether it excuses from penalty: ignorance of law 374, ignorance of the penalty alone 375. Interpretation of penalties 351, 339-6-5. Vindictive penalty and medicinal penalty 522.

¶397.

Penal law 234: civil 287, ecclesiastical 348-351.

¶398.

Roman Pontiff. His legislative power 324. His power: of interpreting: the law of nature 259, divine law 322-c; of dispensing in the laws of the Church 383.

¶399.

Positivism: moral 121-123.

¶400.

Positive voluntary 59.

¶401.

Power: public and private 222-4. Ecclesiastical power: legislative 323, 324, coercive 348. Dominative, economic power 222-4.

¶402.

Preambles of faith 699-705.

¶403.

Preceptive law 234.

¶404.

Precept. Its distinction from law 222-3-4, 223. Whether several precepts can be fulfilled at the same time 365, 366. Necessity of means and of precept 706. Things to be believed by necessity of precept 709. Precept: of faith 789-790, of confessing faith 711-713, of hope 838-839, of charity 971-975.

¶405.

Predominant intention: in the human act 55.

¶406.

Apostolic prefect, see Apostolic vicar.

¶407.

Religious prelate, see Religious superior. Prelate nullius, see Bishop.

¶408.

Prescription: legitimating custom 406-b.

¶409.

Presumption, as opposed to theological Hope 833-837, to magnanimity 833-note. Law founded in presumption of law, in presumption of fact 345.

¶410.

Presumed voluntary 57. Presumed dispensation, license 386.

¶411.

Pragmatism Appendix VI-D.

¶412.

Privation of mode, species, and order, effect of sin 515.

¶413.

Privilege 391-397.

¶414.

Profession: of faith 711-715; of doctrine dangerous to faith 780.

¶415.

Promise of God: condition of supernatural merit 194-C, it is not the formal object of Hope 800-c.

¶416.

Promulgation: of law 226-229; of natural law 245, of civil law 274, of the Old Law 303, of the Christian Law 318, of ecclesiastical law 331-333, of interpretation of laws 369.

¶417.

Propensities of the soul. Their influence upon the voluntary and free 99-B.2.

¶418.

Propositions opposed to faith. Notes branded upon them 687.

¶419.

Neighbor, object of charity 881-882. Order of dilection between us and the neighbor 906-910, among various neighbors 911, among blood-relatives 914.

¶420.

Necessity of prudence 588, 589. Prudence is the form of the moral virtues 651. Prudence is a cardinal virtue 597-599. Formation of a prudent conscience 215.

¶421.

Boys, girls, before the seventh year, are not bound by the laws of the Church, unless another thing is expressly provided by law 355-2; the impubes are not bound by penalties latae sententiae 355-3.

¶422.

Purgative virtues 629; virtues of a purified soul 629.

¶423.

Quasi-domicile, see Domicile.

¶424.

Quietism 809, 811, 812.

¶425.

Rapture, mystical ecstasy 848-note.

¶426.

Rationalism, as a system of morality 129, 132, 133, Appendix VIII, IX.

¶427.

Real: civil law 291, ecclesiastical law 361.

¶428.

Liability: of fault, see Fault; of penalty, see Penalty.

¶429.

Rebellion 955-2.

¶430.

Reconciliation of an enemy 899, 900.

¶431.

Mystery of Redemption, as object of faith 707, 708.

¶432.

Different regimes of the community, of the State 277-3.

¶433.

Relation: of all acts to God 159, of supernatural acts 195.

¶434.

All religious. Their subjection with regard to books to be published by them 778-B. Canonical penalties against apostate religious 750-2. - Exempt clerical religious. They are subject to the local Ordinary with regard to certain causes expressed in law 357-4-c-i-5. See also Religious superior.

¶435.

Remission of penalties, see Penalty. - Remission of an offense 898.

¶436.

Reparation: of scandal 962. In what way reparation of injury is to be sought before a judge 898.

¶437.

Responsibility of a human act 47-note.

¶438.

Resurrection of the body, necessary for Beatitude 41.

¶439.

Retrotraction: effect of a declaratory sentence of an invalidating law: whether civil 288, or ecclesiastical 352.

¶440.

Private revelations, as object of faith 674, 676-3.

¶441.

Revocation: of law 401-403, of custom 409, of dispensation 390-3, of privilege 396.

¶442.

Rigorism. Historical note concerning it Appendix-IV-3.

¶444.

The untaught. Their sufficient indication of credibility for an act of faith 704.

¶445.

Saints. Blasphemy against the saints 784.

¶446.

Sanction: of law 235-237, 254, of natural law 255, of civil law 287, of ecclesiastical law 348. Sanction does not harm morality 256.

¶447.

Wisdom, intellectual virtue 588; its excellence 608. Wisdom, gift of the Holy Spirit 922.

¶448.

Satisfaction, to be accepted by the offended party 898, to be furnished by the offender 899.

¶449.

Scandal 957; active scandal 958-961, the obligation and modes of repairing it 962; passive scandal 964, the obligation and modes of avoiding it 965-967. More frequent active scandals 968-970.

¶450.

Schism 955, 771-1.

¶451.

Schismatics 955, see Heretics.

¶452.

Science, intellectual virtue 588. Moral science 1-4. Science, gift of the Holy Spirit 731, 732.

¶453.

Sacred Scripture, source of Moral Theology 7-A-1. Canons of the Church concerning editions, versions, and reading of the Bible 770, concerning annotations and commentaries 778-A. Canonical penalties against transgressors 776.

¶454.

Sedition 955-2.

¶455.

The half-mad, the half-witted: with regard to subjection to laws 355-2.

¶456.

Senators, duties or sins of electors in their election 768.

¶457.

Sensualism, or hedonism 130, Appendix I.

¶458.

Burial. Licit or illicit attendance at the burial of non-Catholics 759, 760.

¶459.

Sign. Signs of imperfect advertence to the malice of the object, in sin 540, likewise, of imperfect consent 541. - Signs of dilection toward the neighbor: common 893, special 894; obligations with regard to exhibiting signs of dilection 895-897.

¶460.

Ethic of solidarity 134.

¶461.

Sisters, with regard to charity and justice, see Brothers.

¶462.

The lowest species of sins 432-436.

¶463.

Spectacles, with regard to scandal 970-B.

¶464.

Hope. (Treatise on Divine Hope. Division of the Treatise 798.)

¶465.

The notion of hope 794-796. Definition of theological hope 797. Acts of hope: principal formal object: omnipotence assisting 799, secondary formal object 802; contrary opinions in this matter 800, 801; material object: primary: God to be possessed 804, 805, secondary 806. - Necessity of hope: of means 808, of precept 809; precept: from natural-divine law 838, 839, from positive divine law 840.

¶466.

Hope, as a virtue: is a morally good and honorable habit 810-812, is a theological virtue 813, is a supernatural virtue 815. Unformed hope 814. Its subject: proximate 816, remote 817. Its infusion and loss 818. Its certitude 819. Gift of the Holy Spirit annexed to hope, i.e. fear of God 820-828. - Errors against the necessity and perfection of Hope, or Quietism 809, 811, 812.

¶467.

Hope, as it is a passion 91.

¶468.

Holy Spirit. Gifts of the Holy Spirit, see Gift. Sins against the Holy Spirit 474-476. Charity is not the Holy Spirit Himself 855.

¶469.

Spontaneous 54-1.

¶470.

State. Its proximate end, i.e. the temporal happiness of the whole society 265. The happiness of the State, or the common good in which it consists and how it is obtained, see Legal justice. The State is ruled by civil law 265.

¶471.

State of grace: required for supernatural merit 194-B-6.

¶472.

Stoicism 132, Appendix VIII.

¶473.

Subjects of law: of natural law 253, of civil law 290-292, of ecclesiastical law 355, of particular ecclesiastical law 358, 359.

¶474.

Subjective parts of the virtues 599.

¶475.

Moral subjectivism 121.

¶476.

Subreption, in the petition: of a dispensation 389.

¶477.

Suffrage. Obligations or sins of electors in casting a vote 768.

¶478.

Pride, as cause of sins 499-501.

¶479.

Superfluity: of life, or of state, with regard to almsgiving 929, 930.

¶480.

Superior: how he is bound by his own laws 292-4, 356; how he ought to correct subjects 936.

¶481.

Religious superior. Superiors to whom there belongs, by common law: power of jurisdiction 222-4; legislative or dominative power 324-4; power of dispensing in the laws of the Church 383-B; faculty of granting or denying to subjects permission to read prohibited books 777-and note; faculty of granting permission for publishing books 778-B.

¶482.

Superioresses have: dominative power, not jurisdiction 324 at the end.

¶483.

Suspected of heresy, and canonical penalties against them 747-note; obligation of denouncing them 750-3.

¶484.

Suspicion concerning the grave malice of the object is a sufficient cause of mortal sin 540.

¶485.

Symbol of faith 688, to be known and believed by necessity of precept 709. The three more celebrated symbols 688.

¶486.

Synderesis 199-note, 200-a, 588. Its distinction from natural law 246, from conscience 201.

¶487.

Tacit voluntary 57.

¶488.

Temples of non-Catholics. What is lawful with regard to entrance into them 758, with regard to their construction 764. Faculty of missionaries, from a graver cause, to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass in them 753-d.

¶489.

Time, as it is a circumstance of a human act: its influence upon the morality of an act 186. The time at which a promulgated law begins to oblige 332, must be fulfilled 363. Time required for legitimate custom 405.

¶490.

Temptation to sin 483. Temptation of the devil 481, 482, interior temptation 484. In what consent to temptation is had 484. Malice of rashness in temptation 485. Remedies against temptations 486. Computation of time in observing ecclesiastical law 363.

¶491.

Tepidity 949.

¶492.

Territorial law: civil 291, ecclesiastical 357.

¶493.

Witnesses in the baptism of newly converted persons 715-5. The office of witness in a Catholic marriage is prohibited to a non-Catholic 753-c; likewise it is prohibited to a Catholic in a marriage before a non-Catholic minister 756-3.

¶494.

Theology 1, 2. Moral Theology. Its: definition 3; relation to speculative theology 2, to other disciplines 4; general division 5, method 6, sources 7, history 8. Special Moral Theology 656, its division 656, 658, its method 657.

¶495.

Theological virtues 623-625.

¶496.

Fear, as passion 91, 820. - Fear of God 821; filial, servile, initial 822-826. - Filial fear, gift of the Holy Spirit 828. The fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom 827.

¶497.

Tradition, source of Moral Theology 7-2.

¶498.

Taxes. Whether a law imposing taxes is merely penal 287.

¶499.

Most Holy Trinity is: to be believed by necessity of means 707-II, III, 708; to be believed by adults to be baptized 708.

¶500.

Sorrow, as it is a passion 91. Sorrow concerning a good thing 455-B. Sorrow concerning the good of the neighbor: envy 507, 951. Sorrow concerning spiritual good: acedia 511-513, 949.

¶501.

The safer course must be taken in practical doubts and in doubts concerning the validity of an act or the necessity of means 215.

¶502.

Tyrant, whether he is to be obeyed 286-b.

¶503.

Union, effect of love 848-1, 849. Union in divine Charity 853.

¶504.

Use active and passive in a human act 107. Use of privilege 395.

¶505.

Wife. Her alms 932.

¶506.

Wanderers 358-3. They are bound by laws, they are subject to the Ordinary and parish priest of the place of actual sojourn 358-3.

¶507.

Vainglory 502.

¶508.

Venial sin. Its distinction from mortal sin, and its formal constitutive element 530, 531. Its inordination with respect to the ultimate end 531, 533-4. Its effects: stain 520, disposition to mortal sins 533, liability of fault 520, liability of penalty 525. - Venial per se and per accidens 543, venial from its own genus 546. Conversion of mortal sin into venial, of venial into mortal 547-550. - Its existence 551-555.

¶509.

Truth, divine veracity: formal object of faith 667.

¶510.

Garments of infidels, unlawful use of them for hiding the faith 712-5, 714-5.

¶511.

Vicar Apostolic, see Bishop.

¶512.

Vicar Capitular, see Bishop.

¶513.

Vicar General can dispense, in certain causes, from the laws of the Church 383-B.

¶514.

Vindicative penalty 522.

¶515.

Violence 68; cannot be brought upon the will as regards the elicited act, can be brought upon it as regards the commanded act 69; destroys the voluntary and makes the involuntary 70. To what an oppressed person is bound 70-4.

¶516.

Violent, see Violence.

¶517.

Man, see Husband.

¶518.

Virtual: intention 55-2.

¶519.

Virtue. Its definition 576, 577 [the original prints 757]; it is a principle perfective of a power 578, for what reason virtues are distinguished: in the natural order: into virtues in a qualified sense, and virtues simply and properly so called 579-A, in the supernatural order: into unformed virtues, and virtues formed by charity 579-B; the material and formal element of virtues 580. - The subject of virtues, i.e. the powers of the soul 582, virtues which are: in the intellect 583, in the will 584, in the sensitive appetite 585. - Distinction of virtues 587: intellectual virtues 588-590; moral virtues: their: definition 591, necessity 592, specification 593-596; cardinal virtues 597-599. The mean of virtues 600-603. - Of virtues: connection 604-606, comparative perfection 607-611, duration 612, 613. - Supernatural virtues, see Infused virtues. - Acts of virtues as they are objects: of natural law 252, of the old law 307, of Christian law 319-321, of human law 279-282, of ecclesiastical law 325-328.

¶520.

Directive force, or obligation, of law 233, see Law I.)

¶521.

Force, see Violence.

¶522.

Supernatural life 614-616.

¶523.

Vice 414; its material and formal element 580; capital vices and sins 494-498; restraint of vices by civil laws 280-1.

¶524.

Willed. Its distinction from the voluntary 53-c, 61. The willed: actual, virtual, habitual 55, merely interpretative 58. That which is willed naturally, principle of the movements of the will 88.

¶525.

Voluntary 53. Its distinction from the natural, the violent, the willed, the permissive 53. Its distinctions: by reason of the end, into perfect and spontaneous, necessary and free 54; by reason of intention, into actual, virtual, habitual 55; by reason of principle, into elicited and commanded 56; by reason of manifestation, into express, tacit, presumed 57, merely interpretative 58. - Positive and negative voluntary 59-1, direct and indirect 59-2; conditions of the negative voluntary in itself and in its effect 60, 61; voluntary in itself or in the cause 62; conditions of the voluntary in the cause 63, 64, voluntary in the cause relative to morality: of an external effect 172, of a double effect: good and evil 173. - Impediments, or enemies, of the voluntary 67. - Free voluntary, see Free.

¶526.

Pleasure, see Delight.

¶527.

Wounding, effect of charity 848-5.

¶528.

Zeal, effect of love 848-3. Zeal for the divine glory, in charity 884-3.