index — Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis
Alphabetical Index of Notable Matters
Abbot. His power in his territory, see Bishop: II), III).
Absent person is absolved: invalidly from sins 447-2°, validly from censures 681-D-3°-d.
Absolution: form of the sacrament of Penance 417-4, 441. It is not the whole essence of the sacrament 437-4. It must be indicative, not deprecative 442, 443. Its signification 444. Things required for its validity: as to words 445, as to mode: vocal 446-A, made to one present 446-B, 447-3°, without a condition concerning the future 446-C. Its invalidity if it is made: by letters, through an intermediary 447-1°, by telephone 447-6°, with a condition concerning a future contingent 81-3°. Its ritual formula 669. The condition to be used is: "if you are capable," not: "if you are disposed" 618. Absolution: to be granted from justice 614, to be denied to one incapable or unworthy 615, to be deferred for one doubtfully disposed 616, 617, to be denied or deferred by reason of the condition of penitents: see Penitent. Absolution in the article of death 447-5, 652, how often to be repeated 655-3. Absolution of an accomplice see Accomplice. Absolution from reserved matters see Reservation. II. General absolution or papal blessing 673-I-a. General absolution or apostolic blessing in the article of death 708.
Non-Catholics. See Heretic. Infidels.
Annotation of baptism, confirmation, matrimony, see Inscription.
Adultery, with promise or attempted matrimony, or the impediment of crime 898, 975-A-c, likewise with killing of the spouse 899, see Crime. Dispensation from this impediment 924-C-e. Adultery of the other party: licit cause of imperfect divorce 966; required conditions 966, depriving of the right of asking the debt 961.
We give many thanks to the excellent confrere, R. P. Van Langenhove, who with great care was willing to make the alphabetical tables for the whole Summa of Moral Theology.
Advocate. His cooperation with civil divorce 977-B-2°-3°, C, D-2°-3°, 978.
Altar 389-A. Fixed, movable, fixed-in-place altar, ibid.; sacred stone with relics of saints, ibid.; precept of celebrating on a consecrated altar, ibid., and Notes a-c; prohibition of placing bodies of the dead beneath the altar, ibid., notes; exsecration of altars, ibid. Ornaments of the altar 389-B. Privileged altar 676. Mass to be celebrated on a privileged altar 378-4°-b.
Antimensia (of the Greeks) 389-A-note b.
Apostates are bound, of themselves, to the laws of the Church 861. They are barred from the office of sponsor: in baptism 171-3, in confirmation 195; from the office of witness in the celebration of matrimony 845-2. When dead, public application of Mass is denied to them, but not private application 356.
Application of form to matter in the sacraments 14, 15. Application, in the sacrifice of the Mass: of the general fruit 350-1°, 351, 354; of the most special fruit 350-3°, 351; of the special fruit 350-2°, 352, 356; how and when it is to be made by the celebrant 349. What in the case: of double application 353-1°, of anticipated application 353-2-4. For whom it is licit or not licit to apply 356. Application to be made by reason: of office 365-369, of benefice 370, 372, of stipend 373-379, of obedience and vow 382, of promise 383-2. Application of indulgences see Indulgence.
Assistant (priest) to one celebrating Mass 389-E-note c.
Assistance of the pastor, or Ordinary, or delegate, in the celebration of matrimony 845. Conditions of assistance: valid 846, licit 847. Assistance from delegation 848. Assistance of witnesses, in the juridical form of celebration: ordinary 845-2, extraordinary 849. - Assistance in the contract of betrothal 832.
Unleavened bread, matter of the Most Holy Eucharist in the Latin Church 218-3. Antiquity and reasonableness of this custom 219. Unleavened bread is not required for the validity of consecration, ibid. Faculties conceded by law concerning distribution or reception of Holy Communion in unleavened or in leavened bread, ibid.
I.) Baptism: definition 112, various names 113, institution by Christ 115-117; remote matter 120: what kind for validity 121, for liceity 122, what is to be held as valid, invalid, doubtful 121; proximate matter 123: what kind for validity 124, for liceity 125; form 126-129: words required for validity 127, changes of words by which the form becomes invalid or doubtful 127, 129-2, things required for the liceity of the form 128, form prescribed in the Greek Church, ibid., simultaneous application of matter and form 129, 14-note 1.
III.) Minister of Baptism 136; minister: ordinary 137, extraordinary 138, of private baptism 139. Order to be observed among ministers 139-2°. Several ministers baptizing at the same time 140. Witnesses of baptism 141-I. Sponsors, and their obligations 171. Baptism: subject 142-163, ceremonies 169, place and time 170, inscription 172.
IV.) Baptism: non-repeatability 132, conditional repetition 164-168, conditional repetition in the impediment of disparity of cult 887. Distinction of Baptism from the sacrament of Penance 428, 429, 463-B. Its valid but illicit reception is matter of the sacrament of Penance 436-2. Errors concerning Baptism: institution 115, matter 119, necessity 133, subject 147.
Blessing: of vestments and utensils of Mass 389-B-D; of the holy Oils 181, 692; solemn blessing of nuptials 791, 852-B, C, 853-2; simple blessing of nuptials 852-C-at the end. Nuptial blessing: cannot be sought from an excommunicated or personally interdicted minister 110-A; when and to whom it is to be imparted, when omitted 852-B-C.
Causality of the sacraments, see Sacrament III.)
Precautions, see Cautions.
Celebration of Mass, I.) Days. Commendation of daily celebration. Excepted days 387. Hour. The discipline in force today. Exceptions, especially on the night of the Nativity of the Lord 387-B. How often in a day. Grave prohibition of celebrating several times in a day, with excepted days and the case of bination 387-C. Time to be spent on Mass 387-D. Days on which the Mass for bridegroom and bride is prohibited 852-B-6°-c.
II.) Place: regular 388; exceptional: private oratory, private chapel of cemeteries (with the permission of the Ordinary), domestic oratories (by indult of the Apostolic See), 388-1°; outside the regular place, upon a sacred stone 388-2°, on a portable altar 388-3°. What is licit for those sailing at sea 388-4°. Celebration in temples of heretics or schismatics is prohibited 388-4°; likewise in an exsecrated, violated, or interdicted church 388-4°.
III.) Requisites for celebration: the altar and its adornment 389, chalice with accessories 389-C, sacred vestments 389-D, the serving minister 389-E. What concerning: a priest celebrating in another church 388-5°, an assisting presbyter 389-E-2-c. Rites to be observed under grave or under light obligation 386, 390.
Censure, an ecclesiastical penalty. Its definition 681. The Church's power of issuing censures 681-A, ordinary power and delegated power 681-A. Of censures: subject 681-B, object 681-C. Reservation of censures, see Reservation. Absolution from censures 681-D, 597-C, to be premised to absolution from sins 669-note 4, conditions of absolution 681-D, absolution in the internal and external forum 681-D, formula of absolution 681-D-at the end. Species of censures: excommunication 682, suspension 683, interdict 684.
Wax candle, in Confirmation 193-4, in the ordination of an acolyte 729-4°. Wax candles in the celebration of Mass 389-B-3°-4°-a, in the exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament 393-3°.
Cleric. Meaning of the name 730. Translation of a layman, by first tonsure, to the clerical state 730. Existence of the clerical state 715-1°. Privileges and obligations of clerics 730. Major clerics are subject to the impediment of order 890; canonical penalties against major clerics attempting matrimony 893.
Ecclesiastical celibacy, obligation arising from reception of the subdiaconate 729-3°; it arises immediately from the vow annexed to the subdiaconate, ibid., 890, and at the same time from ecclesiastical law, ibid. Conditions for contracting the obligation 890. Its obligation in the Eastern Church 889.
Natural kinship, or carnal kinship, see Consanguinity.
Spiritual kinship, effect: of Baptism 171-5-B, of Confirmation 195-at the end. It is a diriment impediment of matrimony arising from Baptism, not from Confirmation 907. It exists between the baptized person - and the baptizer and the one lifting up 908. Conditions required that it exist 908. It does not exist, under the New Law, between the parents of the baptized person - and the baptizer and sponsor 908-C, nor between the baptized person and an unbeliever baptizing 908-B. Multiplication of the impediment 908-at the end.
II.) Subject of Communion 270. Requisites, in an adult, for valid reception: intention 270. Dispositions required for fruitful reception: on the part of the soul: besides faith, proof of the state of grace 271, or sacramental confession 271-273, instruction and discretion 275, reverence and devotion 276; on the part of the body: becoming dress 279, cleanliness 280, fast 281. Foods and drinks, as to breaking the fast 282, causes excusing from the fast 283, 284, privilege of the sick 283-5°, of priests 283-6°, 284. Malice of sacrilegious Communion 274.
III.) Necessity of Communion: as to reception: real 291, in desire 292. Necessity from precept: divine 293, 294, ecclesiastical, or obligation of Paschal Communion 295, in order to matrimony 837-II-c. Communion under one or under both species, as to necessity or opportuneness 297-299. When Communion under the species of wine is licit for laymen 300.
IV.) Minister for administering Communion: ordinary 336, extraordinary 337. Minister of Viaticum, see Viaticum. What is licit for clerics below the deacon, or even laymen 338. Required jurisdiction or permission of the minister 339, 340. Rite of dispensation as to time, place, defects occurring 392.
Communities, or colleges or societies: as they can be subjects of ecclesiastical interdict 684-A-5.
Accomplice. Revelation of an accomplice, made to a confessor 526. Inquiry concerning the name of the accomplice, forbidden to the confessor 526-3. Cases of licit inquiry, ibid. - Absolution of an accomplice in a base sin 631-638; complicity: by reason of the person of the accomplice and by reason of the base sin 632, required qualities of the sin 633. Complicity does not restrict but removes the confessor's jurisdiction over the accomplice 634, renders absolution invalid 634. Absolution of an accomplice in the article or danger of death 631, 635. What danger of death is 635-B. Canonical penalties against a delinquent confessor 636, when they are or are not incurred 636. Absolution of the delinquent 636-at the end, 638. What the confessor must do lest he absolve an accomplice 637.
Condition. Administration of the sacraments under condition 84, 85-3. Repetition of baptism under condition 164, likewise of sacred ordination 722. Sacramental absolution under condition 446-C, whether it is valid 618. The condition "if you are capable" is to be preferred to the condition: "if you are disposed" 618-C. Condition in the contract: of betrothal 835, matrimonial 801. Conditions against the substance of matrimony 801.
Confessor. I.) Minister of the sacrament of Penance, and his power of order and power of jurisdiction 568. Distinction of each power 569. Relation of the confessor's power to the power of the keys 570. Necessity, for the validity of the sacrament: of the power of order 572-574, of the power of jurisdiction 576-578. Jurisdiction of the confessor, see Jurisdiction. Reservation. Special faculties of the confessor, see Jurisdiction.
His obligations in the act of confession 607: to question the penitent 608, 609, to pass judgment concerning his sins and dispositions 610, to instruct and admonish him 611, to indicate suitable remedies to him 612, to propose to him, if indisposed, suitable motives of contrition 613. Obligations as to absolution: as to the absolution itself, see Absolution; by reason of the various condition of penitents, see Penitent. Obligations as to imposing satisfaction, see Satisfaction. Special obligations: to admonish the sinner guilty of a reserved sin 599-3-4, to admonish the solicited person that he denounce the solicitor 642-C, to admonish onanists 957, to admonish spouses seeking divorce 970, 979.
His sins from abuse of the sacrament, see Accomplice. Solicitation.
III.) Prudence of the confessor: in permitting: the first Communion of children 275-6°, frequent Communion 289; in treating one suspected of reticence 610-2; in inquiring, in a case of necessity, concerning the name of an accomplice 526-3; in dismissing his accomplice wishing to confess to him 637; in procuring the denunciation of a soliciting confessor 645; in treating habitual sinners and relapsers 660, 661, 662; in imposing sacramental satisfaction 549, 550; in absolving from a reserved sin 599-3-5; in absolving under condition 619; in observing the seal 630-3-5; in inquiring concerning the impediment of crime 901-5; in judging concerning the impediment of impotence 880; in declaring the nullity of matrimony 927; in questioning and admonishing concerning the malice of onanism 958; in instructing the penitent concerning the conjugal debt 962; in treating spouses separated by divorce 970, 979.
Confession, part of the sacrament of Penance 507. Its divine institution and necessity 509, 510; its utility 509-III. Precept of confession: divine 512, ecclesiastical (concerning annual confession) 513. Definition of confession 514. It is an act of the virtue of penance 515. Its required qualities 517. Vocal confession, and its necessity 518, 519. Integrity of confession, formal and material, and its necessity 521; integrity: as to the sins themselves 522-A, 527; as to the sins': number 522-B, lowest species 522-C, circumstances 522-D; as to doubtful sins 522-D, 523. Causes excusing from material integrity 525: ignorance or forgetfulness 525-A, physical impossibility 525-B, moral impotence 525-C, danger of defamation: of the one confessing himself 525-C, of another person 526. Fidelity or sincerity of confession 529-531. Effect of confession 532.
Confirmation. (Treatise on the sacrament of Confirmation. Division of the treatise 175.) Of Confirmation: notion, definition, various names 173, 174; institution by Christ 177, 178; matter 180: remote 181, proximate 182; form 183; effect 184; sign only, reality, reality and sacrament 46. Its: minister: ordinary 186, 188, extraordinary 187, 189; subject 190; necessity 191; necessity in order: to Sacred Ordination 738-4°, to matrimony 837-II-3-b; non-repeatability 185-2; ceremonies 193; time and place 194. Sponsors 195. Errors concerning its institution 176.
Conjugal debt. It is not of the essence of matrimony 773, 774-A, 777-5°. Its liceity 763-764, 937. Its liceity or illicitness: from the manner 938; from the end intended 939-941; from circumstances: of person 943, of position 944, of place 945, of time 946, of bodily condition 946-1-3. Liceity or illicitness of acts in order to the debt 949, 952. Illicitness of such acts: if solitary 950-952, if mutual 951, 952, 956-5. Abuse of the conjugal debt 954: onanism 954; its malice: in itself 955, in its effects 957; sodomy improperly so called 956; of the debt: exercise in a non-natural manner 956-2, exercise in the time of agenesia 956-3, interruption 956-4-5. Of rendering the debt: obligation 960, 961-1°-6°, cessation of the obligation 961. Petition of the debt: in the case of a vow of chastity 943-2°, in doubt concerning the validity of matrimony 943-3°, in the case of onanism 955-2°-5°, in the case of sickness 946. The debt rendered, of itself, does not impede Holy Communion 280-2°.
Killing of a spouse, impediment of matrimony, see Crime.
Consanguinity, diriment impediment of matrimony 903. Computation of degrees according to canon law and civil law 903. Multiplication of consanguinity 905-2. Invalidation in the direct line 904, in the collateral line 905. Power of the Church as to dispensation 906-2-3. Impediment as to unbelievers 906-4.
Consecration, the action confecting the Eucharist 206-C. Words of consecration as constitutive of the Sacrament 245. Consecration made by virtue of the words 226. Special questions: as to the intention of the one consecrating 212-3°, as to hosts placed on the altar without the priest's knowledge 212-3-b, or left outside the corporal 212-3-d, as to drops of wine adhering to the chalice 212-3-f, 215-3, as to the consecration of one matter without the other 213; whether such consecration licitly takes place for giving Viaticum 214. Consecration, as it is the essence of the Sacrifice 315, see Mass.
Consent: consent of parents for entering betrothals 835-3°. Consent, form and matter of Matrimony 787, 788; its necessity 796, 797, 798; its object 797; its required qualities 799; its expression 800; its conditioned form 801; its vices 802-807; as efficient cause of matrimony 798-1-2; whether it can be supplied 798-3. Consent: to be renewed for the convalidation of matrimony 930, 931; not to be renewed, if it has persevered, in sanation in the root 934.
Contrition. Its: notion 474, necessity of means and of precept 475, definition 476; it is an act of the virtue of penance 477. Its: object, namely fault 478, 479; its required qualities: true and internal, formal and explicit 481, supernatural 482, highest appreciatively, not intensively 483, universal 484. Contrition must be referred to absolution 489, precede it 491, be morally joined to it 490-492. It is also required in the baptism of adults 144.
Perfect and imperfect contrition 493. Efficacy of contrition, outside the sacrament but with the desire for it 494, 495. Various opinions of theologians concerning the virtue from which it must arise 496-3, charity 496-5, the perfection of charity 496-1, 505, the formal motive cause of charity 496-4. Effects of contrition: as it is part of the sacrament 504-1, as it is an act of virtue 504-2. Whether the sacrament of Penance can be at once valid and formless 506. Sense of the adage: from attrite one becomes contrite 503.
Convalidation of matrimony 927. It takes place either by simple convalidation or by sanation in the root 928. Simple convalidation: in the case of a diriment impediment 930; its conditions: cessation of the impediment 930-A, renewal of consent 930-B. Convalidation: in the case of defective consent 931, in the case of defect of form 932. Sanation in the root 933. Its effects: convalidation, retrotraction 933-A. Dispensation from renewing consent 933-B. Conditions of dispensation on the part of consent 934. Offices of the confessor: in convalidation 927, in sanation in the root 935.
Cohabitants (of religious), see Alumni.
Copula, see Conjugal debt.
Crime. Irregularities from crime, or delict 744. Crime: diriment impediment of matrimony 897: from adultery with promise or attempted matrimony 898, from adultery with killing of a spouse 899, from killing of a spouse alone 900. Impediment: it is dispensable 901-1, does not bind unbelievers 901-2, ignorance of it does not excuse 901-3. Its multiplication 901-4.
Debt, see Conjugal debt.
Defects. Whether they fall under the sacramental seal 625-C. Defects of confession, to be repaired by the confessor 629. Defects excusing from material integrity of confession 525. Irregularities from defect 743. - Defects occurring in the celebration of Mass 391, in the dispensation of Holy Communion 392-D.
Delation, see Denunciation.
Delegated jurisdiction, see Jurisdiction.
Delegation of a priest: for administering Confirmation 187, 189; for hearing confessions, see Jurisdiction; for conferring minor orders 734; for assisting at the celebration of Matrimony 848 (which cannot be done for assisting at betrothals 832). Delegation of a deacon for administering: solemn baptism 138, Holy Communion 337. Delegation of a cleric for issuing a censure 681-A.
Devil, see Demon.
Diaconate, major order and sacrament 729-2°. Required age 739-2°, knowledge 739-3°. Deacon, extraordinary minister: of solemn baptism 138, of the dispensation of the Most Holy Eucharist 337. He is not minister of Extreme Unction 700-2. What blessings he can give 110-4. It is not proved that he sins mortally if, existing in the state of mortal sin: he ministers at solemn Mass 77-5, dispenses the Most Holy Eucharist 77-3; nor does he become irregular if he baptizes solemnly without delegation 138. He should wear a stole in receiving the Most Holy Eucharist 279-5°.
Dispensation from irregularity 742. - Dispensation from matrimonial impediments 918: power of the Supreme Pontiff and Sacred Congregations 919, 920; of the local Ordinary 921; of the pastor, delegated priest, confessor 922, 923; of one having an indult 922-B, 923. Causes of dispensation 924: "canonical" causes 924-A, "rational" or "non-canonical" causes 924-B; obreption and subreption in the exposition of causes 924-C. Of dispensation: petition 925, what things are to be expressed in the supplicatory libellus 925, execution 926, see the individual dispensable impediments (857, D).
Disposition to grace, effected by the sacraments, or "reality and sacrament" 46, 48; it is a cause of the reviviscence of the sacraments 57-III-c, 58. - Dispositions required in the sacraments': minister 76, subject 96; especially as to: Baptism (of adults) 144; Eucharist: dispositions of soul 270-277, and of body 278-285; Penance 656. Signs, as to the penitent, of sufficient or insufficient disposition 617-A, of doubtful disposition 617-B, of indisposition 615.
II.) Imperfect divorce. Its legitimate causes 964-968. Necessary dispensation of the Holy See, if it is done because of entrance into religion or the clerical state 968, 969. Necessary sentence of the Ordinary if it is done for other motives 969. Rights and obligations of the innocent party 969-2-3, education of offspring 969-4.
Church, as it is a temple. Grave prohibition of celebrating Mass in an exsecrated church 388. Things to be observed by a priest about to celebrate in another church 388 at the end. Church to be visited for gaining indulgences 674-C-3. Church, place of ordination 736-F, of celebration of matrimony 853-B.
Bishop. I.) His power of order 731. He is ordinary minister: of Confirmation 186, 188; of Order 735, 736; he is minister, by apostolic mandate, of episcopal consecration 736-A. Reserved to the Bishop are: consecration of chrism 181, blessing of the oil of the sick 692-3, constitutive consecrations and certain blessings 108, 110. He can choose a confessor for himself 583-A-1°, grant certain indulgences 673.
II.) Bishop, as local Ordinary. (The things placed here regard all Ordinaries of places.) He can, by right reserved to himself, baptize solemnly 137, give permission of solemnly baptizing: to a priest 137, and to a deacon 138. He can: delegate a deacon for dispensing the Most Holy Eucharist 337, give permission for bination 387-C-2, permit exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament 393-3, tax Mass stipends 375; he is bound to celebrate Mass for the flock 366. He can, by ordinary jurisdiction, receive confessions of subjects 580, approve and delegate confessors 581, 582, in particular, confessors of religious women 589; proceed against a confessor accused of solicitation 645. He can give the papal blessing with plenary indulgence 673-a. He can grant dimissorial letters for seculars, even for major orders 735-B, confer first tonsure and minor orders 734-1°, and, presupposed the power of order, major orders 735-B-4 note, permit exorcism 729-5°. He can: assist, as qualified witness, at the contract of betrothal 832, judge concerning the sufficiency of the cause for dissolving betrothals 834-6°, dispense from the proclamation of banns 841, from the customary form of proclamations 839-B, assist at matrimony 845, 846, 847, delegate a priest for assistance 848, permit the solemn nuptial blessing 853, prohibit, in certain cases, matrimony 860, dispense, in urgent necessity, over matrimonial impediments 921-3°.
III.) Bishop, as Ordinary. (The things placed here regard all Ordinaries, even of places.) He can, from ordinary jurisdiction, dispense, and give permission for dispensing, the Most Holy Eucharist 339, watch over the discharge of Masses 381, designate one privileged altar 673-I-b. He can issue censures 681-A, reserve cases and censures 595, delegate priests subject to himself for hearing confessions of subjects 581-b, dispense in certain irregularities 742. See also Religious superior.
II.) The sign only of the Eucharist. Its remote matter 211; requisites for consecration's: validity, on the part of both matters 212, in particular, on the part of the bread 216, 217, on the part of the wine 220; liceity, on the part of both matters to be consecrated together 213, 214, in particular, on the part of the bread 218, 219, on the part of the wine 222, 223. Its form 224; of the form: essentials 225, instrumental power 226; form of consecration: of bread 227-229, of wine 230-232.
III.) Reality and sacrament of the Eucharist: true, real, and substantial presence of Christ 234-240; by transubstantiation 241-245; under the species of bread and wine: remaining 246-248, without a subject 255-257; under each species 249; by force of the words, or also by concomitance 250; under the whole species 251; after the manner of substance 252, 253. Apparitions of Christ in the Eucharist 254. Cessation of the real presence 258-260.
IV.) The reality, or effects, of the Eucharist: primary, that is, union with Christ through grace and charity 261, 266; secondary, in general: spiritual nourishment 262; in particular: preservation from sins 263, obtaining of glory 264, remission of punishments 267. Impediments of grace 265. Eucharist: reception, see Communion; reservation and exposition 393.
V.) Eucharist as it is a sacrifice, see Mass.
Exempt: see Religious III.)
Exomologesis 424-B-note, 507-5°.
Extreme Unction. (Treatise on Extreme Unction. Division of the treatise 687.) Its: notion and names 685, definition 686, existence 688, 689, unity 690, institution by Christ 691, remote matter 692, proximate matter 693, 695, form 694, effects 697-699. Of this sacrament: sign, reality, reality and sacrament 696. Its minister, as to validity 700, as to liceity 701. Obligation of ministering from justice 702-I, from charity 702-II. Its subject 704, conditions required in him 705. Of the sacrament: commendation 706, repeatability 707; its rite and ceremonies 703. Apostolic blessing in the article of death 708. Errors against the existence of the sacrament 688.
Special faculties of confessors, see Jurisdiction III.)
Household members of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, as to the choice of a confessor 583-A-2. Household members of religious, see Alumni.
Leavened bread, see Unleavened bread.
Internal and external forum 569. Jurisdiction in the internal forum, to whom it belongs: ordinary 580, delegated 581. Effects, as to the external forum, of absolution from reserved things which is given in the internal forum: in the case of danger of death 585-4°-5°, for a religious using the privilege of choosing a confessor 588-A, in the case of urgent necessity 597-C, by a confessor ignorant of reservation 597-C-3, by a confessor knowingly absolving without due faculty 599-5. Dispensation over matrimonial impediments: in the external forum 918-921, in the internal forum 922, 923. Execution in each forum, of dispensation in commissory form 926.
Heretic. Baptism of heretics under condition 168-and note, the same baptism in order to matrimony: to be contracted 887-A, already contracted 887-B. Baptism of their children, without the knowledge or against the will of parents 151. They can confer baptism of necessity 139. Examination of baptism conferred by them 168. Forbidden to them are: the office of sponsor in baptism 171-3, in confirmation 195, and the office of witness in the celebration of matrimony 845-2. Private application of Mass for them is licit 356-2°. What is licit as to their: absolution in the article of death 653, extreme unction 705-5. Canons of the Church concerning their matrimonies: as to juridical form 850, as to liturgical form 852, 853-B-2, as to impediments generally 861, as to the impediment of mixed religion 867, 868, and of disparity of cult 886. Heresy of one party as a motive of imperfect divorce 967.
Host. Required qualities of hosts for consecration: valid 217, licit 218, 219. Licit use of a smaller host, if a larger one is lacking 218-3. Whether hosts are consecrated: placed on the altar without the celebrant's knowledge 212-3-b, left outside the corporal 212-3-c, shut in a ciborium, or pyx, covered 212-2. It is licit to consecrate hosts brought after the canon has already begun 215-5, but not after the consecration has been completed 215-5, nor is it licit to remove consecrated hosts before the communion of the celebrant 320-6-7. How hosts are to be consecrated which are mixed with hosts already consecrated 215-2. Reservation of consecrated hosts, and their renewal 393-1. Canonical rules to be observed in the distribution of Holy Communion 392-D.
Ignorance. Whether ignorance excuses: of reservation, from reservation; of censure, from censure 593-b; of irregularity, from irregularity 742; of a matrimonial impediment, from incurring it 862, cf. 901-3. Ignorance: vitiating matrimonial consent 804. Ignorance: excusing from material integrity of confession 525.
Impediments of matrimony. Their: definition 856, essence, under the New Law 856-at the end, generic divisions 857. Impediments: prohibiting and diriment 856-5, 857-B, dispensable and indispensable 857-D. Power of the Church to establish impediments 858, 859. Power of the Supreme Pontiff 860. What the local Ordinary and pastor can do 860. Who are subject to impediments 861. How an unknown, impossible to observe, doubtful impediment obliges 862. Prescribed inquiry concerning impediments 836. Offices of the pastor: in the examination of the betrothed 837, in the proclamation of banns 839, in doubt concerning the existence of some impediment 842-A, when a certain impediment is detected 842-B. Obligation of the faithful to reveal impediments 840.
Dispensation from impediments, see Dispensation.
Prepubescent persons, see Minor.
Indissolubility of matrimony 815. It is intrinsic and extrinsic 815. It arises from natural law 816, from divine law 817. Indissolubility, from divine law, of ratified and consummated matrimony 818; dissolubility of legitimate matrimony even consummated in favor of the faith, or from the Pauline privilege 819-821. Dissolubility of ratified only matrimony 818-B.
Indulgence. I.) Its notion 671. Power of the Church to grant indulgences, and their value in each forum 671. Various divisions of indulgences 672. Conditions of concession: power of the one granting 673-I; just cause 673-II; due form 673-III, form of publication 673-III-3, form of application 673-III-3-a; conditions of obtaining: as to the person 674-A, as to prescribed works 674-B, as to commutation of works 674-D, as to multiplied obtaining 674-E. Interpretation: of concession 674-III-3-c, of the faculty of granting, and of its use 673-III-3-b, c. Cessation of indulgences 675.
Defamation, see Reputation.
Infant, see Minor.
Unbelievers: they can confer baptism of necessity 139. Whether their children are validly and licitly baptized, without the knowledge or against the will of parents 149, 150. The Sacrifice of the Mass is licitly applied privately for them 355, 356. Their matrimonies: are subject to the law of unity 814, are also ruled by civil law 825, are dissoluble in favor of the faith, or from the Pauline privilege 819-821. Matrimony of an unbeliever with a believer is ruled by canon law 826; to what impediments the unbelieving party is subject when baptized 861.
Integrity of confession, see Confession.
Intention. Intention of the minister, in the sacraments 80. Required conditions: on the part of the intention itself 81, on the part of its object 81-4. Insufficiency of external intention 82. Intention "of doing what the Church does" 81-4, 83. Illicitness or liceity of conditioned intention 84, 85-3, 618-C, 801. Intention of one receiving the sacraments 92. Required conditions: of the intention itself 93-A, of its object 93-B; merely interpretative intention does not suffice 93-3.
Repetition: of Baptism, under condition 164; of Holy Communion and Viaticum, on the same day 294; of Viaticum, in the same infirmity 296; of invalid confession 629, of absolution for the dying 655; of Extreme Unction 707; of Sacred Ordination, under condition 721, 722; of consent, in the convalidation of matrimony 930-B.
Supplementary oath: in ordination 740-F-note b, in betrothals 839-C-2-c, 842-A-1°, in matrimony 836.
II.) Jurisdiction in the internal, or sacramental, forum 568. Its distinction from the power of order 569. Its relation to the power of the keys 570. Its definition 569-3. Its concession by ecclesiastical superiors 576, 577; necessity of concession for the validity of the sacrament 577, 578. Its distinction into ordinary and delegated 579; to whom it belongs: ordinary 580, delegated 581; canons of the Church concerning jurisdiction to be delegated: to religious 581, to priests traveling by sea 582-5. Of jurisdiction: condition, that is, approbation of the priest 582-1, 583-D; extension 582-2, 583-A; mode or form of concession 582-3; revocation and suspension 582-4; subject 582-5; cessation 583-C. Supplying of jurisdiction by the Church 584; supplying in danger of death 585, in the case of common error 586, in the case of doubtful jurisdiction 586-B. Limitation of jurisdiction as to religious 588, as to religious women 589, 590. Restriction of jurisdiction as to reserved things, see Reservation.
III.) Connected faculties: of a simple confessor. His faculties usually granted in the time of Jubilee 680-B-C; faculty of absolving: in a determined case, from reserved sins 597-B-2; in more urgent cases, from censures latae sententiae 597-C; faculty of dispensing, in more urgent occult cases, over irregularities from occult delict 742-3-b, likewise of dispensing over matrimonial impediments 922, 923-3, 923-5-c. Faculty: of an exempt regular confessor, of absolving from cases reserved in religion 588-A; likewise, of a regular confessor, of dispensing from irregularities from occult delict 742-3-a; likewise, of a confessor of a mendicant order, of absolving from cases reserved to the Ordinary by law 598-B-2; likewise, of the Canon Penitentiary, of pastors and missionaries, as to cases which the Bishop has reserved to himself 598-A-2-3.
Oath, see Supplementary oath.
Layman, extraordinary minister: of Baptism 139, of Holy Communion 74-3, though not regularly nor of Viaticum 338-2; cases in which it is licit for him to receive the Eucharist under the species of wine 300. One ministering baptism in the state of mortal sin is not proved to sin mortally 77-1. Confession formerly made to laymen 573, 574-4.
Lenity. Irregularities from defect of lenity 743-6°, 744-4°-note a.
Lust in the use of marriage, see Conjugal debt.
Husband. His obligations and rights in the use of matrimony, see Spouses. His offices of piety toward his wife 972.
Masons. They are excommunicated 682-B-c; if notorious, they cannot fulfill the office: of sponsor in Baptism 171-3-4, nor in Confirmation 195, nor of witness in matrimony 845-2; if baptized in the Catholic Church, they are bound to the form of canonical matrimony 850. Enrollment in a masonic sect does not constitute a strict impediment of matrimony 867-3, 871.
I.) Matrimony, as it is in the office of nature. Its: origin 752-755; precept: there is some natural precept 756, 757, which of itself does not oblige individual persons 758, 759, but is directly imposed upon the community of the human race 760, 761; honesty, in itself 762-764, to be placed after virginity preserved from a motive of virtue 765-767; ends: essential 769, accidental 770, 771; essence 772: essence in becoming, or consensual contract 773-775, essence in fact of being, or bond 776; properties 777.
II.) Matrimony, as it is a sacrament. Its elevation to the dignity of a sacrament 779, 780, 783. Institution of the sacrament by Christ 781, 782. Inseparability of the sacrament from the contract 785, 786. Matter and form of the sacrament 787, 788, 791. Its minister 789, 790. Its efficient cause, that is, consent 796: of consent: necessity 796-798, object 797, required qualities 799, expression 800, which can be conditional 801; vices of consent: fiction 803, ignorance 804, error of law 804-3-A, of fact 804-3-B, force and fear 806. Of the sacrament: effects: natural 793, supernatural 794; sign, reality, reality and sacrament 782-2°; properties: unity 810-814, see Unity, indissolubility 815-822, see Indissolubility. Matrimony enjoys the favor of law 808, 943-3°.
III.) Of Matrimony: government: by the Church 823, 824; by civil power 823, 825, 827, 828, as to mixed matrimonies 826; celebration: betrothals 830-835, see Betrothals; examination of the betrothed 837; proclamations 838-841, see Banns; offices of the pastor 842, 843; juridical form to be observed: ordinary 844, 845: for validity 845, 846, for liceity 847; assistance of a delegated priest 848; who are bound to the juridical form 850; extraordinary juridical form 849; forbidden celebration of matrimony before a non-Catholic minister 868-2, 870; liturgical form 852-853. Inscription of matrimony 854. Matrimony: of conscience 749-B-3, morganatic, ibid.
Civil matrimony 975. It is distinguished as: obligatory, facultative, subsidiary 975. Those who contract it: validly, non-Catholics; invalidly, Catholics; sins and censures of these 975-A. Conditions under which it can or must licitly be entered by Catholics 975-B. It can be subject to sanation in the root 934-1°. Cooperation of the civil magistrate and witnesses 975-C. Stipulations of civil law concerning it 976.
Godmother, see Sponsor.
Medicinal penalties, see Censure.
Military service, see War.
Minister of the sacraments: principal 73, secondary: ordinary, extraordinary 74. For the validity of a sacrament there is not required, in the minister, either faith or sanctity 75, but there is required: power 74; intention 80, its qualities 81; "external" intention does not suffice 82; implicit intention suffices 81-2, 83; predominant intention 83-5°. For the liceity of a sacrament there is required, in the minister: state of grace 76-78, attention 85-2; grave sin of one ministering: without the required intention 84-1°, under an occult condition, extrinsic or intrinsic to the sacrament 84-2-3; doubtful cases excusing from at least grave sin 84-A-C. Obligation of ministering, if the minister has care of souls 86, if he does not have it 87. Obligation of denying the sacraments 88, 89, 90-2. Simulation and dissimulation of the sacraments 90. Their petition from an unworthy minister 79.
Minors. I.) Minors, who by canon law are called: infants or little children 142-4. To them are conferred: validly and licitly Baptism 147 and Confirmation 192; validly, not licitly, Eucharist 270, 275 and Order 737. Canons of the Church: concerning infants to be baptized: of Jews and unbelievers 149, 150, of heretics and schismatics 151, of Catholics 148, 152; concerning exposed infants 166, an infant to be baptized in the mother's womb 153, 154; concerning the impediment of disparity of cult, as it is contracted by infants baptized in the Church 886.
II.) Minors, who by canon law are called prepubescent, both boys and girls 874-3°. After having attained the use of reason they are bound by the law of Paschal Communion 295. What is licit for them as to Holy Communion and Viaticum 275, as to confessions 649, as to Extreme Unction 704. Canons of the Church, as to them, concerning latae sententiae penalties 681-B, concerning the impediment of age 874, of disparity of cult 886.
I.) The nature of sacrifice in the Mass, see Sacrifice. Name and definition of Mass 308. Of the Mass: existence 311, 312; matter, or victim offered 313, 314; essence, that is, consecration 315, 316, with communion of the species for integrity 317, 318. The Sacrifice of the Mass: is essentially representative of the bloody immolation of Christ 321, represents it symbolically and mystically by the separation of the species 322, or sacramentally 322-3°, is offered by this very unbloody or symbolic immolation 323; it is not a truly new immolation, nor does it make a new victim 324-1, 2; it is substantially one sacrifice with the Sacrifice of the Cross, modally twofold 324-3; it is the same, as to substance, with the sacrifice of the Supper, though it differs from it accidentally 324-4.
III.) Of the Sacrifice: principal minister 326-329; secondary minister 330-333; in what sense the Church and the faithful are called offerers 334; minister of the dispensation of the Eucharist, see Communion. Obligation of celebrating: from priesthood 363, 364, from pastoral office 365-369, from simple benefice of founded Masses 370-372, from obedience and vow 382, 383, from stipend, see Stipend. Requisites for celebrating licitly 384: fast 281-285, cleanliness of body 280, state of grace 271-274, observance of ceremonies and rites 385, 386, see also Celebration of Mass.
Mixed religion, impediment of matrimony 867. Conditions for obtaining dispensation 867, 868. - Mixed matrimony 867. Regularly there are to be omitted: proclamations of banns 838-at the end, and all sacred rites 852-C. Obligations of the Ordinary or pastor 869, 871. Obligations of the contracting parties themselves 868. Sin of those contracting illicitly 869-b. Canonical penalties against them, if Catholics 870.
Nuns, see Religious women.
The dying. Rules for acting with them: in administration of the sacraments 93-B; in particular: of Baptism 145, of the Eucharist 94-3-a, 277, of Penance, as to confession 525-B, as to absolution 447-5°, 652, 655-3°, as to absolution of a heretic or schismatic 653, of Extreme Unction 705. Faculty of dispensing the dying from matrimonial impediments, granted: to the Ordinary 921, to the pastor and confessor 922, 923.
Death. Danger of death, permitting: Baptism for adults 145, Eucharist: for a child 275, for one not confessed 272, for one not fasting 283. Danger of death, taking away every reservation of cases and censures 585, permitting absolution of an accomplice 635, excusing from material integrity of confession 525-C, excusing from proclamation of banns 836-a, from the canonical form of matrimony 849-B. Danger of death: as a cause of dispensation in matrimonial impediments 921, 922, as a condition of Extreme Unction 704-4. Apostolic blessing in the article of death 708.
Natural children, see Illegitimate.
Neoconverts. Their baptism under condition and confession 168. Their baptism under condition in order to matrimony 887. Canons of the Church concerning those converted from heresy or schism, as to the juridical form of matrimony 850, as to the impediment of disparity of cult 886; converts from infidelity: are simply impeded from order until they have been sufficiently proved 745-6°; by which matrimonial impediments they are bound 861-2-b, under which conditions they can use the Pauline privilege 819-2°.
Medals. Mode of enriching them with indulgences 673-III-3-a, b. Medals which can be worn in place of a scapular 679-5°.
Nuptials. Forbidden time for their solemn celebration 843-A-3. Their solemn blessing, see Blessing.
Obligation of a vow, see Vow.
Occasion, occasionary, see Penitent.
Occult sinner, as regards sacraments to be granted or denied 89. Power of dispensing from irregularities arising from an occult delict 742-3. Occult matrimony 749-B-3. Occult impediments of matrimony 857-E. Dispensation over occult impediments, granted by the Ordinary of the place 921, by the pastor or confessor 922, 923.
One to be ordained. Conditions required in one to be ordained for ordination: valid 737, licit 738. Qualities and endowments required in him: divine vocation 739-1, canonical age 739-2, due knowledge 739-3, congruent morals 739-4, title of sustenance 739-5. Dispositions of canon law concerning their: examination 740-A, publications 740-B, gradation 740-C, interstices 740-D, spiritual exercises 740-E, testimonial or dimissorial letters 740-F, profession of faith 741. Special instructions very recently given, for clerics 740-G-I, for religious 740-G-II. Canonical penalties against those improperly approaching 741-2-3. Prayers imposed by the Bishop on those ordained 741-4.
Ordainer, or proper Bishop, of the secular ordinand 735-A, of the religious ordinand 735-A-b. Delegated ordainer, dimissorial letters having been presented beforehand 735-B. Delegation, by Pontifical commission, of a priest to confer orders lower than the presbyterate 734. Delegation, by law, of a priest to confer minor orders 734-1°. Canons of the Church concerning testimonials to be brought to the proper Bishop 740-F, concerning dimissorial letters 736-D, 735-B, concerning dimissorials to be granted by a religious Ordinary 735-A-b, 735-B-4, 740-F-II, concerning ordination: time 736-E, place 736-F.
Order: notion 710, definition 711, existence 714, institution by Christ 716. Its matter 717-719, 721. Its form 720, 721. Of Order: sign, reality, reality and sacrament 715-3°, its effects: grace 723, character 723-B, 732-2. Distinction of orders 725, 726; major orders 728; tonsure is not an order 730, the individual orders are sacraments 727-A, they constitute one sacrament of Order 727-B; power and acts of the individual orders 729, 732-4. Supereminence of the episcopate 731, see Episcopate. Of Order: ordinary minister: for validity 733, for liceity 735, 736, extraordinary minister 734; see Ordainer. Subject of Order, see One to be ordained. Of Order: non-repeatability 724-2; repetition under condition 721, 722. - Errors concerning the institution and essence of Order 713.
Easterners, see Rite.
Pope, see Pontiff.
I.) Jurisdiction of the pastor. It includes: the faculty: of solemnly baptizing 137, also of delegating another priest 137, or a deacon 138; the faculty of dispensing, in his parish, the Holy Eucharist 339, and likewise of committing this to a deacon 337; ordinary jurisdiction, for his territory, in the sacramental forum 580; the faculty of absolving subjects, during the whole Paschal time, from cases which the Ordinary reserved to himself 598-A-3, also outside the diocese 599-2; the faculty of delegating a priest who is to assist at matrimony 848; the faculty of dispensing, in a case of urgent necessity, from matrimonial impediments 922, 923-II-3. - It does not include: the power: of issuing censures 681-A, of subdelegating sacramental jurisdiction 583-E, of establishing strictly so-called matrimonial impediments 860, of dispensing from proclamations of banns 841.
II.) Offices of the pastor: to administer the sacraments 86; to take care that little children be baptized as soon as possible 148; to celebrate Mass for the flock 366; to recommend frequent communion 289; to watch lest children receive the Holy Eucharist unduly 275, 296-3; to take care that the sick receive Viaticum 296-2, likewise Extreme Unction 702; to hear confessions 601; to make public proclamations of those to be ordained 740-B; to instruct and examine betrothed parties 836, 837, to proclaim banns 838, 839, to investigate impediments and collect necessary documents 842, 843; to note in a special book: baptism received 172, confirmation conferred 196, the contract of matrimony 854, 926-C.
III.) Offices reserved to the pastor of themselves: to confer solemn baptism 137; to carry the Eucharist publicly to the sick 339-2, likewise Viaticum, whether publicly or privately 339-4; to administer solemn communion to children 296-4; to discharge the obligations of founded Masses of his church 372-2; to administer Extreme Unction 701, 702; to assist at betrothals 832; to assist at Matrimony 845, 847; to give the solemn nuptial blessing 852-B. Blessings reserved to the pastor 110-A-2.
Travelers, how they are held by censures issued by the Bishop of the place 679-B. By whom they may be: baptized 137-2, absolved sacramentally 582-5, absolved from reserved things, in the place of origin: sins 597-B, censures 597-C-2. Who is their proper pastor for: betrothals 832, proclamations 839-C, matrimony 847.
Penalty. Remission of penalties: through Baptism 130, through the Sacrifice of the Mass 347-2, through Penance 461-465, 565, through indulgences 671. When guilt has been remitted, every penalty is not always remitted 463. - Vindictive penalty and medicinal penalty, see Censure. Medicinal penalties in sacramental satisfaction 553.
Penitent, as the subject of the sacrament of Penance 647. Requisites, in the penitent, conditions for receiving the sacrament: validly 648, and fruitfully 656; requisites: in children 649, in the half-mad 650, in the deaf-mute 651, in the dying 652, in dying heretics and schismatics 653, in the apparently dead 654.
II.) Penitents: customary, or habituated in sin 657; conditions required for contrition had by them 657-I-3; incontinent and intemperate persons 657-4, customary but not recidivist 658; as regards absolution 659; recidivists 658: formal and material 658, as regards absolution 659-B-C; offices of the confessor concerning them 660-661; occasionaries. Occasion of sin: remote and proximate 664-A, absolute and relative 664-B, continuous and interrupted 664-C, voluntary and necessary 664-D; obligation of removing occasion 665, 666; absolution to be granted or denied 667; means for removing occasions 668.
Penance. (Treatise on Penance.)
I.) Penance, as it is a virtue. Division of the treatise 394. Definition of penance according as it is either an act or a habit 395. It is a special virtue, one, connected with justice 396. Its material object, materially primary and formal 398, its remote object, or personal sin 399. Its relation to other virtues 401, and distinction from them 402-404. Its mean 403-I. Distinction of the acts of penance by reason of the end 400. Acts of penance: elicited acts, that is, contrition, confession, satisfaction 405; commanded acts 406. Of penance: subject: proximate, that is, the will 408, remote, that is, every man capable of sin 409, 410; necessity: of means 411, 412, of precept 413, 414; necessary duration 451-2.
II.) Penance, as it is a sacrament. Division of the treatise 418. Of the sacrament: necessity 416, definition 417. Power, whose effect it is, that is, power of the keys 419; of this power: conferral by Christ 421-424, extension 423, exercise under the form of a judicial act 422-B-3°, 426, distinction from the power of baptizing 422-B-3°, use in the primitive Church 424-C, 425.
III.) Of the sacrament: existence 427, 428, distinction from baptism 429. Its: remote matter 432: necessary 433, sufficient 434; proximate matter: which is not imposition of hands 437-3, nor the judicial sentence alone 437-4, nor confession alone 437-4-c, but is the penitent's contrition, confession, and satisfaction 438. Its form, that is, absolution, see Absolution.
IV.) Of the sacrament: institution by Christ 448, necessity, in reality or in desire 449, necessity for proving the state of grace before the celebration of Mass or Holy Communion 272, 273, repeatability 450, 451. Its effect 452, from the work worked 456-3°: deletion of mortal sins 453-456, of venial sins 460, remission of penalties 461-465, reviviscence of virtues 466, reviviscence of merits 467-470. The sacrament's sign only, reality, reality and sacrament 430. Sacrament valid and at the same time unformed 506, 533.
VI.) Errors concerning Penance: as it is a virtue: essence 407, necessity 411; as it is a sacrament: existence 420, 427, necessity 449, 464, efficacy 420, 423, proximate matter 437, necessity of contrition 475, 494, efficacy of attrition 497, necessity of confession 508, necessity of satisfaction 535, 538, efficacy of absolution 439, 444, 456-3, necessity: of power of order 571, of power of jurisdiction 576.
Polyandry, see Polygamy.
Polygamy: successive or simultaneous, polyandry or polygyny 810. Simultaneous polygamy is repugnant to natural law 811, polyandry: to its primary precepts 811-A, polygyny: to its secondary precepts 811-B, likewise to divine law 812. Successive polygamy is licit and is a true sacrament 813. Simultaneous polygamy is prohibited even to unbelievers 814.
Roman Pontiff. His power of ruling the Church 732-6. His jurisdiction in both forum 569. His power: of ruling the marriages of baptized persons 824, 826, of establishing matrimonial impediments 859, 860, of dispensing in them 919, 920, of dispensing in a ratified only matrimony 818-B. To the Supreme Pontiff: reserved cases 594, reserved censures 594: excommunications 682-B-a-c, suspensions 683-B, interdict 684-B-1; reserved episcopal consecration 736-A, ordination 736-B, reserved blessings 110.
Precept as regards the sacraments 102, of baptism 133, 143, of communion 293-295, of confessing sins before communion 271-272, of confessing as soon as possible for celebrants without previous confession 273, of observing the natural fast before communion 281-284, of penance 413-416, of confession 511-515, of matrimony 757-760, of observing in the celebration of matrimony the juridic form 845 ff., and the liturgical form 852, of celebrating Mass 363 ff., see Mass III.) Whether there is a precept of confirmation 191, of extreme unction 706.
Apostolic prefect, see Apostolic Vicar.
Religious prelate, see Religious Superior. - Prelate nullius, see Bishop II.) III.)
Presbyter, see Priest.
Offspring, see Children.
Promise of future matrimony, see Betrothals. Promise of matrimony in the impediment of crime 898.
Boy, girl, see Minors II.)
Quasi-domicile, see Domicile.
Regulars, see Religious IV.)
Religious. I.) Religious men. The vesture and office of sponsor in Baptism and Confirmation 171-4, 195-at the end. Their faculties: as regards Masses at midnight on the Nativity of the Lord 387-5, as regards exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament 393-3; as regards choice of confessor 588. Their exemption from the right of the pastor as regards Extreme Unction 701-3.
III.) Religious clerics, exempt. Concerning them, as regards ordination: proper Bishop 735-A-b, dimissorial letters 735-A-b, 735-B-4; 740-F-II, title of ordination 739-5-B-2, publications 740-B. They receive jurisdiction and approbation for hearing confessions from the Ordinary of the place 581-a, 582-1, 583-D, and at the same time from their own superior for his subjects 581-b; they can absolve from reserved things in their own religion 588-A-1; they are bound to observe the diocesan tax for Mass stipends 375-3.
IV.) Religious regulars: besides the things said in I) and III), can dispense from irregularities arising from occult delict 742-3-a; give the papal blessing with plenary indulgence 673-a. - Mendicant regulars can dispense in vows not reserved 865-at the end; likewise absolve from cases reserved to the Ordinary by law 598-B-2. See also Religious Superior.
Remission of sins through Baptism 130. - Remission, through Penance: of mortal sins 453-456, of venial sins 457-460. - Remission of sins: through perfect contrition 494-496, 503, 505, through attrition with the sacrament of Penance 499, through Extreme Unction 697, 698, through the Eucharist 263, through the Sacrifice of Mass 347, 348. The Church has the power of remitting sins 420-426. Remission of sins in the Old Law 416-I-3. - Remission of penalties, see Penalty.
Reservation of cases: I.) What it is 592. What sort of power of reserving cases belongs to whom 592. Reservation of sins: sins and censures 593. Of reservation: end 593, effect: reservation affects the confessor, censure affects the penitent 593-a. Cases reserved to the Supreme Pontiff 594. Power of Ordinaries concerning reservation: of sins 592, 595, of censures 595-B, 599-I. Qualities of sin: that it be reservable 596, that it can be reserved 596-5-a, b, that an attached censure be incurred 596-5-c; effect, as regards reservation, of ignorance 593-b. - Cessation of every reservation in danger of death 597-A, 586, outside danger of death: as regards sins 597-B, as regards censures 597-C.
II.) Faculties of absolving: from reserved censures 681-D; from censures reserved to the Ordinary by law 598-B, from cases which the Ordinary reserved 598-A; see also Jurisdiction III.) Conditions of absolution 681-D. Direct or indirect absolution 599-5. Absolution: given by a confessor who is ignorant of the reservation 597-C-3; given to a penitent who omitted declaration of a reserved sin in confession 599-6; to be given with the burden of recurring to the superior, under penalty of reincidence 597-C; value of absolution given: in the external forum, for the internal forum; in the internal forum, for the external forum 681-D-note. Absolution from censures to be premised before absolution from sins 669-4. Obligations of the confessor concerning them 599-3, 4. Canonical penalties against confessors unduly absolving 599-5.
Revalidation, see Convalidation.
Rite. Catholics of Oriental rite may, for the sake of devotion, receive Holy Communion in the Latin rite 219, but not Viaticum unless necessity urges, ibid. Canons of the Church concerning their promotion, in the Latin rite, to sacred orders 732-3, 736-C. Form and canonical tenor of matrimony when they contract with Catholics of the Latin rite; they are not bound when they contract among themselves 850; likewise as regards their betrothals 832. Sacramental rites, see Ceremonies.
Rubrics, see Ceremonies.
Priest. His dignity 724. He is the secondary minister of the sacraments 74; extraordinary minister: of Confirmation 187-189; of Ordination, by delegation, for conferring some minor orders 734. He, by priesthood, is bound to celebrate 363. Priest assisting at Mass 389-E-at the end, at Mass which is celebrated on a ship 388-4.
I.) Of the sacraments: name and notion 3, definition 5, 6. Sacraments: are in general signs 5-A, 7; they are conventional symbolic signs 9, 10, which consist of things and also words 11, that is, matter and form 12. Matter: is an exterior thing and its use 13-3; is distinguished: remote and proximate 13-4; form are words 12, which are consecratory 32. For the validity of a sacrament there is required the union of matter and form 14, and the minister making it with intention 15. Determination of matter and form was made by God 16, through Christ the mediator 17, 18. Mutation of either is to be avoided 19, essential or accidental 20, having the malice of sacrilege 22. Use of either in doubt about their validity 23.
III.) Of the causality of the sacraments, from the work worked 30-33; causality as it is: accidental 42-A, moral 42-B, 43, instrumental dispositive 45, 46, instrumental perfective and physical 48, whether it is intentional or real virtue 49; of causality: origin 50-52; condition, that is, absence of fiction and obex 56, 57; time 57; reviviscence 57-c, 58.
IV.) Of the sacraments: instituting cause: God 68, Christ 69-72; ministering cause, see Minister; recipient cause, that is, subject 91; requisites, for validity: capacity of the subject 91, intention, at least implicit habitual 93-95, merely interpretative intention does not suffice 93-A-3, nor the intention of salvation alone 93-B; requisites, for liceity, dispositions of the subject 96, 97.
Sacrifice. Its name and notion 302. Definition of sacrifice strictly so-called 303. Essence of sacrifice: external oblation, made to God, of a sensible thing, signifying internal oblation of the soul to God 303, 304-1; the formal constitutive of sacrifice in the reason of act is in the external reason of sacrifice 304-3; the formal constitutive of sacrifice as it is the immutation or destruction of the thing offered 303-3, 304-7; destruction of the thing offered: what sort constitutes sacrifice 303-3, destruction becomes sacrificial through positive signification 304-4, the significance of positive institution 304-5. Different species of sacrifice 305. Sacrifices of the Old Law 305. Twofold sacrifice of the New Law: bloody sacrifice on the cross 306; unbloody sacrifice in the Eucharist, its perpetuity, its fruits 307, see Mass.
Sacrilege, in unworthy: administration of the sacraments 76-78, 84, reception 97. Sacrilegious communion 274; through it the precept of Paschal Communion is not satisfied 295-6-b, nor the precept of Viaticum 294-3. Sacrilegious confession: how much an absolution given to censure avails 599-6; through it the precept of annual confession is not satisfied 513-3.
Satisfaction, act of penance 405. Satisfaction, part of the sacrament of Penance 534. Satisfaction: in purpose, in reality 534; sacramental, extra-sacramental 534; of congruity, of condignity 537. It is an act of the virtue of penance, annexed to justice 536. Its necessity: in itself 535, in order to the validity and integrity of the sacrament 539. Grave obligation of the confessor to enjoin, regularly before absolution, sacramental satisfaction 540-542. - Conditions of sacramental satisfaction 543: in satisfactory works 544, in the one satisfying: for himself 545, for another 546, 548-I-3, for the dead 547, 548-4-6. - Due quantity of sacramental satisfaction and its qualities 549: by reason of sins 550-1, by reason of penalty still to be paid 550-2, by reason of the penitent's faculty 550-3, by reason of the work imposed 552, 555-557, by reason of the medicine to be furnished 553; causes for lessening satisfaction 551, 554. - Satisfaction: accepted and supplied 558, 559; to be fulfilled: mode 560, 563, to be fulfilled, causes excusing 561; effect 564-567. - Satisfaction to be imposed on one absolved from censure 599-4, 597-C-1-g.
Schismatics. Canonical effects of their condition, see Heretics.
Those deprived of their senses: as regards reception of the sacraments, see The dying.
Separation, see Divorce.
Sacramental seal 621. From what laws it arises 621. Its obligation: from religion, from justice 622, from every and only sacramental confession 623. Who are bound to the seal 624, what things fall under the seal 625. Sacrilege in violation of the seal 622, violation of the seal: direct, indirect 626; by words 627-A, by deeds 627-B. Canonical penalties against those violating the seal 630. Danger of violating the seal: removes, in some determinate case, reservation of a sin 597-B-2°; excuses from material integrity of confession 525-C-3; permits dispensation from a matrimonial impediment of occult delict 922-A-2-d; excuses from the obligation of revealing impediments of matrimony 840-5.
Simulation, in the sacraments, see Fiction.
Solicitation to base things 640. Requisites: on the part of the solicitation itself 640, on the part of its connection with the sacrament 641. Obligation of denouncing 642; those who must be denounced 642-A, to denounce those who ought to denounce 642-B; obligation of the confessor who heard the person solicited concerning the obligation of denunciation 642-C; obligation in a case of doubtful solicitation 644. Canonical penalties against those soliciting 643-A, 646, against those negligently denouncing 643-B, in false denunciation before ecclesiastical judges 643-C-a, before superiors 643-C-b. Mode of making denunciation 645.
Lowest species of sins must be declared in confession 522. - Eucharistic species, see Eucharist III.) In the Sacrifice of Mass, the species are part of the thing offered 313, as there is not offered bread or wine 314. Communion under both species is not necessary for all the faithful 297, and the Church did not illicitly take it away or not grant it under both species 298. Communion under one species does not confer less grace 299, 297. Communion under the species of wine, in certain cases, is permitted to laymen 300.
Betrothals. Their name and definition 830, 831. Their canonical form 832. Their effects 833, 835-1, 4. Legitimate causes of dissolving betrothals 834. Void betrothals: under condition, with apposition of conventional penalty, under earnest money 835-2; with parents unaware or unwilling 835-4. Proclamation of betrothals, see Banns.
Betrothed parties 830. Their obligations 833, 835-4. Their right to dissolve betrothals 834. Examination of betrothed parties to be performed by the pastor 837. Cautions to be furnished by betrothed parties in a case: of mixed religion 867-at the end, of disparity of cult 888; what is to be done, as regards both impediments, in a case of doubtful baptism 887. Cessation, for betrothed parties, of reservation of sins 597-B-1, of censures 597-C. Dispensation, which can be granted to them, in a case of urgent necessity, over matrimonial impediments 921, 922, 901-1°. Mass for bridegroom and bride 852-B-at the end.
State or civil power as regards matrimony: cannot rule the matrimony of the faithful 824-2, 827, nor as regards civil effects 824-3, 859; can rule the marriages of unbelievers 825, and perhaps the matrimony between faithful and unbeliever 826. It cannot absolutely and perpetually prohibit marriage or impose sterilization 755-6. State: as regards civil matrimony 975, 976, as regards civil divorce 977, as regards civil separation from bed and habitation 978.
State of grace: is not required for validly confecting and ministering the sacraments 75, but is required for their licit confection and ministration 76-79, likewise for licit reception of the sacraments 96, especially: of the Most Holy Eucharist 271-274, 333, of sacred ordination 738-I°; is required for gaining indulgences 674-A.
Stipend of Mass 373; its liceity and origin 373; its title, that is, sustenance of the priest 375; its taxation, by decree of the Ordinary of the place, or by custom of the place 375, 1-2, 376; obligation of justice arising from a stipend 377; obligation to be fulfilled: as regards person, number, time, place, quality, and other circumstances 378, 379. Canons of the Church concerning inscription of stipends 381. Trafficking and commerce with Mass stipends prohibited 380. - Whether it is licit for a priest: to accept stipends: for a second and third Mass on the day of the Nativity, on the day of All Souls, for a second Mass in bination 374-2, for the very special fruit 350-3; whether it is licit to negotiate stipends for Masses imposed by the consecrating Bishop 741-I-d. Whether it is licit to accept: a stipend for a Mass before it is applied 379-A-I, for a Mass already owed by another title 379-A-2, one stipend for celebration alone, another for application of the same Mass 379-A-4; a double stipend for the same Mass 379-A-3; to accept, even if one is an exempt religious, a stipend above or below the diocesan tax 375-3, 376. - To whom priests are bound who owe one Mass from a stipend and nevertheless omitted to celebrate 377; who lost a stipend without fault 379-C; who interrupted Gregorian Masses 378-4-g. - What delay of Masses to be celebrated is permitted 378-3, 379-E, F. - What is prescribed as regards a stipend received by the consecrating Bishop 381-2, 3, or to be bestowed on another priest 378-I; whether it is licit to retain part of such stipends 380-2.
Religious superior. I. Superiors to whom belongs the faculty: of granting a license to celebrate outside a church or oratory 388-2, of designating one privileged altar 673-I-b, of imposing on a priest subject to himself the celebration of Masses 382-2; jurisdiction for administering: the Eucharist 339-I, Viaticum 339-4, Extreme Unction 701-3; jurisdiction for hearing confessions of subjects 580-2, 588; power of granting sacramental jurisdiction to subjects 581-b, 582; power of absolving subjects from censures reserved to the Ordinary by law 598-B; power of reserving sins 592, 595-A-2, 3; power of issuing censures 681-A, 595-B; faculty of dispensing from irregularity arising from occult delict 742-3.
Time: for conferral of baptism 170, for conferral of confirmation 194, for dispensation of Holy Communion 392-A, for fulfillment of the Paschal precept 295-5, for celebration of Mass 387, for celebration of Masses owed by stipend 378-3, for conferral of sacred orders 736-E, for proclamation of banns 839-A. Time in which the solemn blessing of nuptials is prohibited 852-B, 853. Forbidden time: impediment of matrimony today removed 853.
Testimony, or certificate, of confession 630-4. Testimonies to be brought by those to be ordained to the Bishop 740-F. - Testimonies to be brought by betrothed parties to the pastor 837-II-3-b.
Unity, property of matrimony 809. Opposed to it is polygamy 810. Simultaneous polygamy is repugnant to natural law 811, to whose primary precepts polyandry is repugnant 811-A, to secondary precepts polygyny 811-B. Permitted, in the Mosaic law, was polygyny 812-3; obligation, in the evangelical law, monogamy 812, 814. Liceity of successive polygamy 813.
Usurpation of sacred order induces irregularity 724-7. Usurpation of ecclesiastical goods is punished with excommunication 682-B-b-10.
Sacred vessels and accessories, in Mass, their use, their consecration or blessing, their execration 389-C.
Venial sin, free but sufficient matter of the sacrament of Penance 434. Its remission: through fervent charity 457, 459, 460-2, 4; through penance 399-2, 457, 1-4, without a new infusion of habitual grace 458; through the sacrament of Penance 460, 435; through the Eucharist 263, through Extreme Unction 698. Remission of one venial sin without another 460-3. Requisites: attrition 457, 460, 484-3, and purpose 488-4. Venial sins alone do not impose the obligation of Paschal confession 513-2. How venial sins impede the fruit of Holy Communion 265.
Veracity, see Truthfulness.
Viaticum. Its obligation from divine precept 294; the precept is not satisfied by sacrilegious communion 294-3; the precept does not bind the sick person who received Communion on the same day 294-I°. Requisites in the recipient: intention 270, instruction and discretion 275; fasting is not required 283; how often it can be repeated 296; to whom it must be denied 277. Its minister, ordinary 339-I°, 2°-4; obligation of ministering, even with danger to life 86. Whether, in a case of necessity, a priest or deacon can administer Viaticum to himself 338-I°, and likewise to clerics or others, or laymen 338-2. Whether a priest, to furnish Viaticum, can celebrate not fasting 284-3, consecrate one matter 214. - Mode of carrying and rite of administering Viaticum 392-C-3; it is administered illicitly under the species of wine 300, or, outside urgent necessity, in a rite diverse from one's own moribund rite 219; defects to be guarded against 392-D-4.
Apostolic Vicar: as regards jurisdiction in both forum, see Bishop II,) III.)
Vicar Capitular: as regards ordinary jurisdiction in both forum, see Bishop II,) III.); a reserved case 692 is excepted.
Wine, remote matter of the Eucharist 211. Its requisite qualities: for validity of the sacrament 220, 221, for liceity 222. Very grave obligation of admixing to wine for consecration a very small quantity of water 222-4°, 223. Whether drops of wine adhering to the chalice are consecrated 215-3. Defects in Mass occurring concerning the matter of wine 391-C.
Man, see Husband.