Index of Subjects

The marginal numbers in this index are clickable links to the corresponding sections in the translation. The Arabic number indicates the marginal number.

Absolution: its formula 237; it cannot be given by letters 238; nor to an absent person 239; nor by telephone 239; when conditioned absolution is licit 240; if the penitent after absolution confesses a grave sin omitted from forgetfulness 240; in the absolution of the dying what is to be attended to 292; when it is to be given, deferred, denied 391; when the habitual can be absolved 393; when the relapsed can be absolved 395; when absolution is to be deferred to the relapsed 396; when those in an occasion can be absolved 399, 400; see Habitual Sinner, Relapsed, Occasionary.

-- of an accomplice see Accomplice.

-- general see Indulgence in the article of death.

The Sick: whether outside danger of death they can receive Holy Communion not fasting 157; as to indulgences 323; their confessions can be heard without license of the parish priest 30.

Altar: necessary for the celebration of Mass 211; privileged 324; in what sense a privileged altar must be fixed 324; Gregorian 326.

The Insane: what is required so that those who after the use of reason have become insane can receive the sacraments 41; whether the Eucharist can or ought to be given to them 134.

Application of Mass see Mass.

Article of death: concerning the indulgence in the article of death see Indulgence.

Assistance see Matrimony.

Attention: external, internal 19; in the administration of the sacraments external attention suffices 19; for the valid reception of the sacraments none is required 41; what sin voluntary distraction is in the confection of the sacraments 19.

Attrition: what it is 247, 250; its motives 250; its effects 251.

Dawn: how it is to be computed in the celebration of Mass 203; when it is permitted to celebrate before dawn 204.

Banns see Proclamation of Matrimony.

Baptism: what it is 55; of desire and of blood, solemn and private 55; effects of baptism 56; necessary to all by a hypothetical necessity of means 57; in infants it can be supplied by martyrdom 57; in adults also by baptism of desire 57; to be conferred by infusion 61; how infusion must be made so that it certainly avails 61; conferred on one enveloped in the afterbirth is invalid 61; conferred over hairs, over a head covered with an ulcerous scab or with filth is valid 61; conferred on one existing in the mother's womb is doubtful 61; conferred by way of anointing is invalid 61; what baptism conferred in the name of Jesus is 63.

-- water of baptism: when it must be consecrated 60; what must be done if it appears full of sediment 59; if it is lacking 60; to be consecrated with recent oil 60.

-- form: what it is 62; what words are essential 62; valid, invalid, doubtful, ambiguous forms 63.

-- repetition: when baptism of a heretic converted to the faith must be repeated 74; when baptism conferred privately must be repeated 75.

-- place: outside the case of necessity it is a church or public oratory 82.

-- matter: remote valid matter 58; remote licit matter 59; proximate matter 61.

-- minister: ordinary and extraordinary minister of solemn baptism and of private baptism 64; order to be observed among diverse ministers 65; outside necessity only the parish priest or his delegate baptizes licitly 64.

-- ceremonies: those prescribed in the Ritual must be employed 81; what sin their omission is 81; whether the name of some saint must be imposed 81; they must be supplied if baptism was conferred privately 83; which ceremonies must be supplied 83.

-- sponsors: how many can licitly be employed 77; what is required so that someone validly be a sponsor 78; so that he be a sponsor licitly 80; their office 79; they contract spiritual kinship 79; a Catholic cannot be a sponsor in baptism to be conferred by a heretic 80; caution to be used in rejecting the unworthy 80.

Subject of baptism: infants of Catholics are to be baptized as soon as possible 66; what sin it is to defer baptism too long 66; children of non-Catholics are not to be baptized unless there is probable hope of Catholic education 67 ff.; outside danger of death it is not permitted to baptize infants of infidels against the will of the parents 68; aborted fetuses are to be baptized 70; fetuses not yet born are to be baptized in danger of death 71; monstrous births are to be baptized 72; a sufficiently instructed adult must be baptized as soon as possible 73; children of non-Catholics using reason must be baptized if they ask for baptism 73; whether an infidel deprived of the senses can be baptized 73.

Blessing: what it is and how many kinds there are 52; constitutive and invocative 52; the power of blessing belongs to the Church 49.

-- papal: in the article of death how often and by what rite it can be given 329.

-- nuptial: what it is 655; whether spouses are bound to receive it 655; to whom it is to be granted 657.

Beneficed cleric: he is bound from justice to satisfy the burdens of Masses 195; ordinarily by himself 195; for what causes he can omit a Mass owed 195.

Bigamy: it is licit 516.

Bination: only in a case of necessity can the ordinary permit it 206; when a case of necessity is present 206; for the second Mass it is not permitted to accept a stipend 207.

Candle see Light.

Reserved case: what it is 355; what sins are usually reserved 356; by reason of themselves, by reason of censure 358; who can reserve sins 359; how many cases ordinaries can reserve 359; papal and episcopal cases 360; conditions required so that a sin be reserved 361; whether a sin committed with ignorance of reservation is reserved 362; who can absolve from episcopal cases 363; when a simple confessor can absolve 364; whether pilgrims can be absolved 364; who can absolve from papal cases 366; when a simple confessor can do so 366; under what conditions 366.

Ceremonies of baptism see Baptism.

-- of confirmation see Confirmation.

-- of Mass see Mass.

Sacramental character: what it is, in which sacraments it is imprinted, what it effects 3.

Dances: whether they are licit 420; of masked persons 420; whether absolution can be denied to those unwilling to avoid them 420.

Chrism: what it is 86; it cannot be consecrated by a simple priest 86.

Lord's Supper: how many Masses it is permitted to celebrate on this day 200; if a feast of precept falls on it 200.

Frequent Communion: what it is 158; the Church commends it 158; what disposition is required for it 159.

Accomplice: whether a sin which cannot be declared without manifestation of the accomplice must be accused 285; it is not permitted to ask the name of the accomplice 287; in a base sin 369; one's own accomplice in a base sin cannot be absolved 370; when one's own accomplice can be absolved validly, when validly and licitly 371.

Composition see Tax.

Condition in the sacraments: a condition concerning the future makes a sacrament invalid 25; when a condition can and must be added 25; whether it must be expressed in words 25.

Condonation of Masses see Mass.

Confessor: whether he can command things which are not otherwise precepted 385; when he can absolve from episcopal cases 364; when from papal cases 366.

-- of religious women: he needs special jurisdiction 350; any monastery whatever must have its ordinary and extraordinary confessor 351, 352; he is not appointed except for three years 351; who cannot be a confessor 351, 352; all religious women must present themselves to the extraordinary confessor, even if they do not confess 352; special and designated confessors 353.

-- soliciting see Solicitation.

Obligations of the confessor: whether and how much knowledge he must have 382 f.; concerning what things he must teach the penitent 384; which penitents he must admonish concerning obligations 385; which penitents and concerning what things he must question 386; with what diligence he must question them 386; he must judge concerning sins 388; he must have a probable judgment concerning disposition 389; when he must absolve the penitent 391; he is bound to correct defects admitted in confession 401 ff.; when he is bound to restitution because of an error committed in confession 405; he is bound to keep, see Seal.

Confession: what generic confession is 230; in a case of necessity it is valid 230; a generic confession of venials only is illicit 231; how confession of venials is to be instituted 265; what sacramental confession is 267; it must be true 269; secret 270; whether confession through an interpreter or by writing is necessary 270; it must be vocal 271; when it is licit by writing 271; whether it is permitted to divide confession 272; whether the Church can prescribe confession of venials 273; general 437 ff.; as to indulgences see Indulgence.

Integrity of confession: it is precepted 272; material and formal 272; what things are necessary for valid absolution 272; what is required for it 273; doubtful sins are not required for it 278; nor aggravating circumstances of sins 280; whether it suffices to accuse a recent sin as formerly committed and already remitted 281; causes excusing from it 282 ff.; whether a sin must be accused which cannot be declared without manifestation of the accomplice 285; whether a multitude of penitents excuses from integrity 286; the dying are excused from integrity 292.

Necessity of confession: before Holy Communion 140; whether one having a reserved sin must confess before Holy Communion 368; see Penance.

-- repetition: invalid confession must be repeated 290; causes of invalidity on the part of the confessor 291; on the part of the penitent 291.

Confirmation: what it is 84; when it was instituted 84; its effects 85; conferred with sacred oil 86; whether a bishop is bound to confer it 90.

Ceremonies of confirmation: which are to be observed 94.

-- form: what things in it are essential 88.

-- matter: remote valid 86; remote licit 86; proximate 87.

-- minister: ordinary, extraordinary 89; whether only the supreme pontiff can delegate a priest for confirming 89; obligation of confirming 90.

-- sponsor: required 95; who can validly and licitly be a sponsor 96 f.; when religious can be sponsors 97.

-- subject: who can validly, who licitly receive it 91; whether we are bound to receive it 92; conditions for receiving it validly and licitly 93.

Matrimonial consent see Consent of matrimony.

Custom of sinning: what it is 392; when it is considered contracted 392.

Habitual sinner: whether he is to be absolved 393; if he frequently refuses to confess 393.

Contrition: what it is 247; acts necessary for its essence 247; perfect 243; its effect 249; imperfect 250; its motives 250; its effects 251; see Attrition. Perfect contrition is necessary by necessity of means and precept 252; when it is necessary 252; it must be true, not merely estimative or virtual 253; supernatural 254; universal 255; supreme 256; when it must be elicited so that absolution may avail 257; whether it must be elicited with the intention of confessing 258; whether one suffices for individual absolutions 259; see Sorrow.

Conversion: what acts it comprises 241; necessary for the remission of sins 241; see Remission.

Cross: it is not permitted to celebrate without a cross with an image of the crucified 211.

Delegation for matrimonial assistance: who can delegate, who can be delegated 649; whether general delegation suffices 649; whether chaplains need delegation 649; whether it expires by the death of the one delegating 649.

Denunciation of solicitation: a soliciting confessor must be denounced 373, 376; who must denounce him 377; the solicited person cannot be absolved unless he or she wills to denounce 378; he incurs excommunication if he does not denounce within a month 378; what if he denounces through calumny 378; causes excusing from the obligation of denouncing 379; mode of denouncing 380.

Deacon: when he can baptize 64; by what rite he must dispense the Eucharist 125; whether he contracts irregularity if without the commission of the parish priest he solemnly baptizes or distributes Holy Communion 64, 126.

Matrimonial dispensation: what the power of the supreme pontiff is 606; tribunals through which he dispenses 607; what the power of the ordinary is 608 f.; what the power of the parish priest and confessor is 610 f.; without cause it is invalid 613; what canonical causes there are 614; what non-canonical causes 615; how it is to be sought 616; in ordinary form, of nobles, of the poor 616; what things must be expressed in the supplication 617; whether it avails if there is an error in the supplication 619; concerning the tax to be paid 618; granted in commissory form, in gracious form 621; who is its executor 622; how it is to be executed if it is granted for the external forum 623; if it is granted by the Penitentiary 624.

Disposition: what judgment concerning the disposition of the penitent is necessary 389; from what signs the judgment can be formed 390.

Dissimulation of the sacraments: what it is 38; from a just cause it is licit 39.

Distraction: voluntary distraction in the administration of the sacraments does not exceed venial sin 19.

Divorce: as to the bond see Indissolubility of Matrimony.

-- as to habitation: separation by mutual consent: perpetual 668; temporary 669; separation from a cause of one party: perpetual 670; temporary 671.

-- civil: whether it is permitted to the judge to pronounce a sentence of divorce 673; whether it is permitted to spouses to seek it 675; whether it is permitted to advocates to conduct a cause of divorce 676.

Sorrow for sins: for venial sins, how it ought to be prepared 265; when it must be elicited so that absolution may avail 257; whether it must be elicited with the intention of confessing 258; whether one suffices for two absolutions 259; whether it is permitted to confess venials without sorrow 265; sorrow concerning the frequency of venials suffices 265; see Contrition.

Domicile: as to ordination 463.

Church: what it is 198; of itself it is permitted to celebrate only in a consecrated or blessed church 199.

Effects of the sacraments: by itself and by accident, primary and secondary 4; whether the effect of sin must be declared in confession 277.

Bishop: who is the proper bishop as to ordination 463; what is required so that he can ordain another's subject 462; so that he can ordain in another diocese 475.

Error: common and private 346; in common error the Church supplies jurisdiction 346.

Eucharist: it is a sacrament and sacrifice 98; its definition 99; what grace it confers when received under each species 100; when grace is conferred on the recipient 101; how long Christ remains present 102; its multiple effects 104; whether one species can be consecrated without the other 103; the species are frequently to be renewed 128.

Dispensation of the Eucharist: at what time it can be dispensed 129; in what place 130; by what rite it must be dispensed to the healthy 131; by what rite to the sick 132; what must be done if a sick person vomits the sacred host 132; where, when, and to whom regulars can dispense the Eucharist 127.

-- form: what the form of consecrating bread is, and what things in it are essential 119; what the form of consecrating wine is, and what things in it are essential 120; how it must be pronounced 121; valid, doubtful, invalid forms 122.

-- matter: the remote matter is wheaten bread and wine of the vine 105; what is required so that bread be valid matter 106; that it be licit matter 107; that wine be valid matter 108; that it be licit matter 109; water is to be mixed with the wine 110; the matter to be consecrated must be physically present 111; it must be determined 112; what is required for licitly consecrating matter 113; what matter is consecrated by force of the intention of celebrating 114; whether drops of wine adhering to the chalice either interiorly or exteriorly are consecrated 115; whether crumbs of bread adhering to the host or separated from it are consecrated 115; whether a ciborium left outside the corporal is consecrated 115; when particles to be consecrated must be placed on the altar 116; how much matter can be consecrated 117.

-- minister: who is the minister of consecration 124; who is the ordinary and extraordinary minister of dispensation 125; what power is required for licitly dispensing it 123, 126; by what rite a deacon must dispense it 125; where, when, and to whom regulars can dispense the Eucharist 127.

-- necessity: it is not necessary by necessity of means, but of precept 136; when the divine precept urges 137; when the ecclesiastical precept 136.

-- subject: of valid reception 133; of licit reception 134; in how many ways the Eucharist can be received 133; why it is not given to infants 134; whether it must be given to the insane 135; whether it can be given to those destitute of the senses 135; who must receive it 136; the substantial disposition as to the soul is the state of grace 139; the accidental disposition is devotion 139; the precept of confessing obliges all priests as soon as possible 140; when it is permitted to celebrate without a previous confession 141; the required disposition as to the body is decent dress 143; cleanliness 144; whether menstrual flow, involuntary pollution, or use of matrimony impede communion 144; natural fast see Fast.

Examination of conscience: its necessity for confession 288; what diligence is to be used in it 289; how grave negligence can be known 288.

-- of spouses: by whom and how it is to be instituted 550.

Excommunications: what they are, to whom and how they are reserved, pp. 785 ff.

Exorcism: what it is 53; solemn and simple, public and private 53; the Church has the power of exorcizing 49; solemn exorcism may not be performed without license of the ordinary 54; unless the fact of possession is certainly established 54; private exorcism can be performed by all 54; greatly commended to priests 54.

Familiars of regulars: who they are 348; with what jurisdiction they can absolve them 348.

Familiarity: licit, illicit 418; of betrothed persons 419.

Friday in Parasceve: celebration of Mass outside a case of necessity is prohibited 201; what if a feast of precept falls on it 201.

Faith: whether it must be elicited before confession 264.

Fetus: aborted fetuses are to be baptized 70; those not yet born are to be baptized in danger of death 71.

Form of the sacraments: what it is 11; it must be pronounced together with the application of the matter 13; by the same minister who applies the matter 14; its pronunciation must be vocal 16.

Change of form: substantial, accidental 15; an error of the minister which does not change the sense of the form does not make the sacrament invalid 15; the value of an ambiguous form depends on the intention of the minister 15.

-- interruption: interruption of syllables more easily changes the sense than interruption of words 16.

-- repetition: to repeat without cause either the whole form or one or the other word is a sin 16; scrupulous persons who repeat the form without cause do not always sin 16.

Fruit of Mass see Mass.

Heretics: when heretics converted to the faith are to be baptized again 74; heretics cannot be sponsors 78; whether heretics can be absolved 295; whether Mass can be applied for them, whether living or dead 181.

Hermaphrodites: who are so called; whether they can enter matrimony or receive orders 575.

Ignorance: whether it excuses from incurring reservation 362.

Impediments of matrimony: who can establish them 513, 559; whether they can be introduced by custom 559; whom they bind 560; prohibiting, diriment 556; whether it is permitted to enter matrimony with a doubtful impediment 557; public, occult 556; what obligation there is of revealing them 554.

-- prohibiting: how many there are 560; impediment of catechism and of crime 560.

-- vow: what vows impede matrimony 561; what sin one commits who, bound by such a vow, enters matrimony 561; to what he is bound 561.

-- mixed religion: by what law it impedes matrimony 562; who can dispense in it 562; under what conditions 563; when mixed matrimony is licit 564.

-- legal kinship: what it is 565; nature of the impediment 566.

-- diriment: how many there are 568.

-- age: what age is required for valid matrimony 569 ff.

-- impotence: what it is 571; how many kinds there are 572; how far it diriments matrimony 573; concerning matrimony entered with an impotent person 574.

-- bond: what it is 576; what certitude concerning the free state is required 577.

-- disparity of cult: what it is and how far it diriments matrimony 578; what if there is doubt concerning the value of baptism 579.

-- sacred order: how far it diriments matrimony 580.

-- solemn vow: what vow diriments matrimony 581.

-- abduction: what it is 582; how far it diriments matrimony 583; it is indispensable 582.

-- crime: what crime diriments matrimony 584; whether those ignorant of the impediment contract it 584; what conditions are required for contracting the impediment 585 ff.; when the impediment is multiplied 588.

-- consanguinity: what it is and how many kinds there are 589; its line 590; how its degrees are to be computed 593; names of blood relatives 594; how far it diriments matrimony 591 ff.; when it is multiplied 595.

-- affinity: what it is, whence and between whom it arises 597, 598; its line, degree, multiplication 598; names of relatives by affinity 599; how far it diriments matrimony 600.

-- public honesty: what it is, whence and between whom it arises 601; how far it diriments matrimony 601; whether it arises from clandestine, civil matrimony 601.

-- spiritual kinship: what it is 602; whence and between whom it arises 603; when it is multiplied 603; whether it arises from private baptism 603.

-- legal kinship: what it is 604; how far it diriments matrimony 604.

Impediments of ordination see Irregularities.

Imperfection: what it is 229; it is not sufficient matter of confession 229.

Imposition of hands: in confirmation it is necessary 87; in ordination it must be done by physical touch, but mediate touch suffices 459; in ordination the imposition of hands of the presbyters is not required 459.

Indulgence: what it is 311; in one way it is granted to the living, in another to the dead 312; indulgences cannot be applied to the living 312; those granted to the living have an infallible effect, not likewise those granted to the dead 313; personal, real, local 314; plenary, partial 315; whether we can gain the same indulgence more often in a day 315; who can grant 316; conditions required for gaining indulgences 317; conditions required for gaining indulgences for the dead 318; works necessary for a plenary indulgence 319; Easter Communion avails for gaining indulgences which require communion, except the jubilee 320; what visit to a church is required 321; prescribed prayers must be recited orally 322; indulgence granted in the customary form of the Church 323.

-- of a privileged altar: what it is 324; whether its effect is infallible 324; whether it differs from other indulgences 324; conditions required for gaining it 325.

-- in the article of death: one indulgence and several titles 328; to whom it can be applied 329; conditions on the part of the priest 329; on the part of the dying person 329; when it is to be applied 329.

-- of the jubilee see Jubilee.

Infants: of what sacraments they are capable 41; whether and when they must be baptized 66 ff.; whether exposed infants must be baptized 76.

Infidels: whether they sin by deferring baptism 73; whether the dying destitute of the senses can be baptized 73; whether Mass can be applied for them 176.

Intention: what it is 19; actual, virtual, habitual, interpretative 20; clear, determined, explicit 22; absolute, conditioned 24; in the administration of the sacraments virtual intention is required 21; determined 23; at least implicit intention of doing what the Church does 23; in the reception of the sacraments at least habitual implicit intention is required 41.

Intention of Mass: what a second intention is 174; it is permitted to exchange the intention of Mass with another 192; see Application.

Interpellation of an infidel spouse: why it is prescribed, how far necessary, its object, its formalities, its dispensation 522.

Interstices: what interstices are to be observed in ordination 476; who can dispense in them 476.

Irregularities: what irregularity is 479; its subject, what it prohibits, what it effects, its ignorance, how it is multiplied and contracted 480; how it differs from a simple impediment of order 498.

-- from defect: from defect of birth 481; its cessation 482; from defect of body 483; its species 484; what defects of soul induce it 485; from defect of sacrament 486; from defect of reputation 487; who are infamous 488; from defect of lenity 489.

-- from delict: conditions for contracting it 490; defection from faith 491; baptism received from a non-Catholic 492; attempted matrimony 493; homicide, procuring abortion 494; mutilation, attempted suicide 495; exercise of the medical or surgical art 496; abuse of order 497.

Repetition of sacraments: which cannot be repeated 26; when it can or must be done 27.

-- of baptism induces irregularity 26; see Baptism.

-- of extreme unction see Unction.

Natural fast: precepted before Communion 145; in what it consists 145; one who doubts whether he is fasting can communicate 145; the time of midnight is to be computed physically 146; according to any clock whatever ordinarily well directed 146; according to true and mean time 146; how it is violated 147 ff.; what causes excuse 151 ff.; it is permitted to give Holy Communion not fasting to a sick person not dangerously confined, at least for satisfying the paschal precept 157; dispensation is granted from the precept of the sacramental fast 145; how it is to be sought and interpreted 157.

Jubilee: what it is 330; how it differs from another plenary indulgence 330; ordinary and extraordinary, how they differ 330; required conditions 331; faculties which are usually granted to confessors 332; concerning the use of these faculties 333; indulgences and faculties which are suspended during the holy year 334.

Jurisdiction: what it is 337; it can be exercised only over a subject 339; it must be granted by the superior of the penitent 339; it is required also for absolving from venials 339; ordinary and delegated 337, 341; to whom ordinary jurisdiction belongs 340; in how many ways it can be delegated 338; how jurisdiction ceases 342; with what jurisdiction those sailing at sea are absolved 343; when the Church supplies it 344; doubtful and probable jurisdiction 346; whether its use is licit 346; as to religious women 350; see Danger, Religious Men, Religious Women.

Restriction of jurisdiction: in how many ways it can be done 354; see Reservation.

Bill of repudiation: what it effected 501.

Letters: testimonial letters required for ordination 471; dimissorial letters required for ordination 472.

Light: to celebrate without light is a grave sin 211; to celebrate with one light is venial 211; two candles of wax must burn during Mass 211; it is not permitted to celebrate with candles of tallow 211.

Imposition of hands see Imposition.

Matter of the sacraments: what remote and proximate matter are 11; outside the case of necessity it must be certain 12; it must be applied together with the form 13; by the same minister who pronounces the form 14.

Change of matter: substantial, accidental 15.

Matrimony: what it is 501; when and how instituted 501; how it differs from other contracts 501; its ends 503; its goods 504; entered through a procurator 633; entered under a condition 634; under a condition which is opposed to its substance 635; whether copula is required for its essence 626; as it is a sacrament 505; the sacrament does not differ from the contract 506; its matter and form 507; its ministers 508; its subject 509; its effects 511, 639 ff.; its division 512; morganatic 512; of conscience 512; attempted 512; of St. Joseph 635; the power of the Church over it 513; the power of civil authority over it 514 ff.; mixed 658 ff.

-- civil: what it is, how many kinds there are 677 f.; how far it is licit 679; how far it is valid 680; whether a magistrate can assist at civil matrimony 681.

Necessity of matrimony: how far it must be asserted 502.

-- consent: what it is 625; its necessity 626; its properties 627 ff.; presence of the contracting parties 633; conditioned consent 634 ff.; concerning conditions against the substance of matrimony 635; concerning defects of consent 636 ff.; error 636; force and fear 637.

-- individuality: in what it consists 632.

-- unity: in what it consists 516; perfect, imperfect 516; to it are opposed polyandry, polygyny, and bigamy 516.

-- indissolubility: internal, external 517; ratified matrimony of the faithful can be dissolved 518 f.; consummated matrimony of infidels 520 ff.

-- celebration: at what time, by what rite, and in what place it must be done 653, 654, 657; how mixed marriages are to be celebrated 658; whether it is permitted to approach a heretical minister 659; concerning the unworthy 657; concerning inscribing matrimony 660.

-- revalidation: what it is and how many kinds there are 661; what a confessor must do who discovers an invalid matrimony 661; how it is to be done if the matrimony is null because of defect of consent 663; if it is null because of defect of form 664; if it is null because of defect of capability 662; see Sanation in the root.

Dissolution of matrimony see Divorce.

-- proclamation: its end 551; it is to be done under grave obligation 551; how many times, when, where, by whom it is to be done 552 f.; who can dispense from it 553; what a just cause of dispensing is 553.

-- assistance: active, passive 656; who must assist 644; whether a putative parish priest or intruded parish priest can assist 644; conditions of valid assistance 645; of licit assistance 646; who must assist at marriages of wanderers 648; see Delegation. What assistance is to be furnished to public sinners 656; in mixed marriages 658.

-- witnesses: 650.

Lying in confession: whether it is always a grave sin 269.

To administer a sacrament: under a condition concerning the present or past it is permitted 25; under a condition concerning the future it is not permitted 25; a sacrament of doubtful value must be administered under condition 25; in the state of sin, when it is a grave sin 32 f.; according to the Roman Ritual 29; who can do so licitly 30 f.; how great the obligation of pastors is 34; how great that of non-pastors is 35; when a grave obligation is present 34 f.; it is not permitted to administer the sacraments to the unworthy except from a just cause, but never to one incapable 36; for what causes it is permitted to administer a sacrament to the unworthy 36 f.

Minister of the sacraments: principal, secondary; ordinary, extraordinary; consecrated, non-consecrated; public, private 17; what attention is required 19; see Attention; what intention is required see Intention; he ought to inquire into the dignity of the recipient 36; who is unworthy 43; it is not permitted to ask sacraments from an unworthy minister except from a just cause 43.

-- of Mass: a male minister is required under grave obligation 211; if a minister is lacking, a woman can respond to the celebrant from afar 211.

Mass: what it is 162; it is a true sacrifice 162; Communion is required not for its essence, but for its integrity 163; in the consecration of one species the essence of sacrifice is not had 164; its fourfold end and effect 165; various offerers 166; both Mass and the offering priest can be considered in three ways 167; how it remits sins 170; for whom it can be offered 175; whether for infidels or for excommunicated persons, whether living or dead 176; whether for deceased infidels, for catechumens 176; manual Masses, after the manner of manual Masses, founded 186; a sacrifice begun must be completed 213; what Gregorian Masses are, whether they are licit 327; someone can assist at several Masses at the same time 171.

Reduction of Masses: who can reduce Masses 193; by reduction the faithful do not suffer detriment 193.

Condonation of Masses: what it is 194; only the supreme pontiff can condone Masses 194; when condonation is granted 194; twofold effect of condonation 194.

-- application: what it is 174; public, semi-public, occult 174; whether it avails "according to the mind of the Blessed Virgin" 177; by whom it must be made 174, 177; whether the fruit of a Mass applied to no one remains in the treasury of the Church 174; when it must be made 177; of two applications which one avails 179; for him who will first give a stipend 179; for a living person who is believed dead 179; the application of a requiem Mass made for a living person avails 179; how often it must be made for the people 181; whether it must be made by the pastor himself 182; on what day and in what place 182; one who must apply in honor of some saint is not bound to say a votive Mass 184; when a Mass owed from a stipend must be applied 187; it is permitted to exchange the application of Mass 192.

-- celebration: in the state of sin it is sacrilege 32; when it is permitted in leavened bread 107; how often it is precepted by reason of priesthood 180; by reason of office 181; what the obligation of celebrating is by reason of stipend 183; by reason of benefice 195; by reason of obedience 196; by reason of promise 197; in what place it must be done 198, 199; whether it is permitted to celebrate under the open sky, on a ship 199; on what days it is permitted to celebrate 200; at what hour of the day it is permitted to celebrate 203; how often on the same day it is permitted to celebrate 205; in celebration, to omit a rite can be grave 209; it is not permitted to add a rite in celebration 210; it is not permitted to celebrate except on an altar 211.

-- stipends see Stipend.

Fruits of Mass: what they are 168; produced ex opere operato 169; meritorious, impetratory, propitiatory, satisfactory 170; how each is produced 170; general, special, most special, ministerial 171; how each is applied 171; they are not of infinite value 172 f.; one who assists at several Masses at the same time receives the fruit of all 171; the fruits of Mass can be divided 178.

-- minister see Minister.

Interruption of Mass: it must be celebrated without interruption 212; essential interruption is illicit 212; accidental interruption from a just cause is licit 212.

Roman Missal: the typical edition must be used in celebration 208; it is not permitted to celebrate without a missal 211.

The dying: they can ask for sacraments even from an excommunicated person or heretic 43; they are excused from the integrity of confession 292; who cannot be absolved 293; whether heretics can be absolved 295.

The dying destitute of the senses: what intention is required for validly receiving the sacraments 41; they can be absolved under condition 292.

The mute: they are bound to confession 271, 283; as to indulgences 322.

Those sailing at sea: by what jurisdiction they are absolved 343.

Spiritual necessity of neighbor: extreme, grave, common 34.

The possessed: exorcism must be employed only over those who are certainly such 54.

Midwives: to be carefully instructed concerning the mode of baptizing 75; how they are to be examined concerning baptism conferred 75.

Occasion of sin: what it is 397; how it differs from the danger of sin 397; remote and proximate 398; voluntary and necessary, in being and not in being 398; particular 418 ff.

Occasionary: whether he can be absolved in a free proximate occasion 399; in a necessary proximate occasion 400.

Consecrated oil: threefold 86; to be employed in the consecration of baptismal water 60.

Moral works: of how many kinds they are 223.

Oratory: what it is 198; public, semi-public, private 198; of itself it is permitted to celebrate only in a consecrated or blessed oratory 199; who can grant license of a semi-public oratory 199; only the supreme pontiff can grant license of a private oratory 199.

Ordination: what defects committed in it must be supplied 458; time of ordination 474; place of ordination 475; title of ordination 473; whether there is an obligation of reciting prayers or saying Masses imposed in ordination 478; impediments of ordination 479 ff.

Order: its definition 448; number of orders 439; tonsure is not an order 451; minor orders are not sacraments 452; what power they confer 452; whether major orders are sacraments 453; what power they confer 453; what effects order produces 450.

Matter and form of order: what it is in minor orders 455; the supreme pontiff determines it 454; what it is in major orders 456 f.; things to be observed as to imposition of hands 459; as to instruments to be touched 457, 460.

Minister of order: of valid ordination 461; of licit ordination 462; whether a priest can be delegated for conferring minor orders 461; who is the proper bishop of the one to be ordained 463; it is not permitted to confer an order with a lower order omitted 477; it is not permitted to confer two sacred orders on the same day 476.

-- subject: who can validly receive orders 464; who can licitly receive them 465 ff.; whether the one to be ordained must be in the state of grace 465; whether confirmed 465; what knowledge is required for each 469; what age is required for each 468; title of ordination required 473.

Bread: what kind of matter it is of the Eucharist see Eucharist.

Parish priest: whether he can assist at the matrimony of a public sinner 37; to minister viaticum pertains to the parish priest 126; how often he must apply for the people 181; whether he himself, on what day and in what place, must apply 182; assisting in matrimony see Matrimonial assistance.

Sponsors of baptism see Baptism.

-- of confirmation see Confirmation.

Mortal sins: they are necessary matter of confession 224; they must be declared in the lowest species 273; all and individual 274; what the particle "about" added to the number of sins signifies 275; their external act must be declared 276; but not their effect 277; doubtful sins are not necessary matter 278.

-- venial: they are free and sufficient matter of confession 227; generic confession of venials is valid but illicit 230 f.; whether it is permitted to confess venials without sorrow 265; it suffices to grieve concerning the frequency of venials 265; whether the Church can command their confession 273.

-- remitted: they are sufficient matter of confession 229; directly and indirectly remitted 224; indirectly remitted sins are necessary matter of confession 282.

-- reserved: see Reservation, Cases.

Sinner: public, occult 37; sacraments are to be denied to a public sinner 38; sacraments are to be denied to an occult sinner if he asks occultly 37; what is required so that a public sinner can be admitted to the Eucharist 37.

Pilgrims: by what jurisdiction they are absolved 339; whether they can be absolved from reserved cases 364.

Danger of death: in danger of death the Church supplies jurisdiction 345; every reservation ceases 345; a simple priest, an approved priest being present, can absolve from all sins and censures 345; one absolved from a reserved censure must present himself if he recovers 345.

Capable person: for entering matrimony 631; for entering betrothals 532.

Penitent: disposed, indisposed, doubtfully disposed 389; the disposed person of himself must be absolved 391; absolution can be deferred even to the disposed 391; the indisposed cannot be absolved 391; the doubtfully disposed can be absolved only from a just cause 391; see Absolution, Confessor.

Penance as virtue: what it is 215; general and special 215; what is required for its essence 215; the purpose of not sinning is contained in it 215; its material and formal object 216; the precept does not oblige immediately after sin, but neither only at death 217; it is necessary for obtaining pardon of sins 241; and indeed formal penance 241.

Penance as sacrament: its definition 218; its institution 219; it is necessary by necessity of means and precept 220; when the divine precept obliges 221; the ecclesiastical precept 220; its parts 222; its effect 223; whether it can be formless 260.

Matter of penance: necessary 224; an adult rebaptized under condition is bound to confess sins committed before baptism 225; sins committed in baptism itself are doubtful matter 226; free matter 227; certain and doubtful matter 228; what must be done if the penitent confesses only doubtful matter 228; sufficient and insufficient matter 229; when sins accused in general are sufficient matter 230; proximate matter 233; acts of the penitent are probably a necessary condition of absolution 233.

Form of penance: what it is 235; essential and rubrical, preceptive and directive 235; what words are essential 236; whether the whole rubrical form must always be said 237; it must be pronounced by voice 238.

-- minister: he is only a priest 335; he needs power of order and jurisdiction 336; his obligations see Confessor.

Pollution: whether it impedes Holy Communion 144.

Polyandry: it is repugnant to the primary end of matrimony 516.

Polygamy: simultaneous and successive 516.

Polygyny: it is repugnant to the secondary end of matrimony 516.

Power of remitting sins: granted to the Church 219; it is judicial power 219.

Privilege of the altar: what it is 324; local, personal 324, 189.

-- Pauline: what it is 520; when matrimony is dissolved through it 520; conditions required for dissolution 521 f.; whether the faithful party can also enter religion 523.

Purpose: what it is 261; necessary for obtaining pardon 261; it must be firm, universal, efficacious 262; an implicit purpose suffices 263; whether it excludes fear of relapsing 262; whether its defect can be gathered from relapse 262.

Relapsed: who is so called 394; from frailty and from evil will 395; whether he can be absolved 395; whether it is better to defer absolution to him 396.

Reduction of Masses see Mass.

Regulars: where, when, and to whom they can dispense the Eucharist 127; to whom they can confer extreme unction 439.

Religious women: sisters and nuns 349; concerning the confessor of religious women 350; concerning the ordinary and extraordinary confessor 351, 352; concerning special and designated confessors 353; see Confessor.

Religious men: they cannot be sponsors in baptism 80; by whom they can be absolved 348; concerning confessors of novices 348.

Remission of sins: condition required for it 241; of mortal sins 249; of venials as to guilt 243 ff.; as to punishment 246; ex opere operantis 243 f.; ex opere operato 245.

Repetition of form see Form.

-- of sacrament see Repetition.

-- of extreme unction see Unction.

Reservation of cases: what it is 355; the Church has power of reserving cases 356; end of reservation 357; mode of reservation 358; whether ignorance excuses from incurring reservation 362; when reservation ceases 364; see Cases.

Revival of sacraments: what it is, what sacraments revive, what disposition is required for revival 8; whether penance can revive 260; whether extreme unction revives 431.

-- of merits: effect of the sacrament of penance 223.

Roman Ritual: it did not have to be introduced, but where it has been introduced, it must be observed 29.

Rubrics: essential and sacramental; preceptive and directive 29; preceptive rubrics of themselves oblige under grave obligation 29; what rubrics are preceptive 208.

Holy Saturday: only the solemn sacred rite may be celebrated on this day 202; it is permitted to distribute Holy Communion 202.

Sacraments: why they are to be treated in moral theology 1; their definition 2; effects 3, 4; what grace sacraments diverse in species produce, what grace diverse in number 3; mode of effecting 5; their number 6; distinction 6; their division 7; whether and which revive 8; their essential parts 9; whether a sacrament confected by several ministers avails 14; those conferred under a condition concerning the present or the past avail 25; those conferred under a condition concerning the future do not avail 25; repeatable and non-repeatable 26; when they can or must be repeated 27; to whom sacraments are to be denied 36 f.; it is never permitted to simulate, but from a just cause it is permitted to dissimulate 39; who can receive 40; it is not permitted to ask from an unworthy minister 43.

Sacramentals: what they are 44; in what sense they were instituted by the Church 44; transient and permanent, reserved and not reserved 45; they differ from sacraments 44; minister and subject of sacramentals 46; their effects 48; how they produce effects 50; use of sacramentals is not precepted, but greatly commended 54.

Eucharistic sacrifice see Mass.

Sacrosanctae: its effect 323.

Sanation in the root: what it is 665; who can grant it 665; conditions required for obtaining it 666; how it is to be sought 667.

Satisfaction (penance): what it is 296; sacramental and non-sacramental 296; vindicative and medicinal 297; in what sense it is a part of the sacrament of penance 222; its effect 298; obligation of imposing satisfaction 299; what penance is to be imposed 300; for what causes a lesser one can be imposed 301; when it is to be imposed 302; works to be imposed for penance 303; incongruous penances 304; whether it must be accepted and fulfilled under grave obligation 305; when it obliges under grave obligation 306; when it must be fulfilled 307; how it must be fulfilled 308; one who fulfills it in the state of sin satisfies 298; who can change it 309; how it can be changed 310.

Confession certificate: when it must be given, when denied 417; when by its denial the seal is violated 417.

Cesarean section: it must be done when the pregnant mother is dead 71; who must perform it 71.

Half-witted: whether Holy Communion is to be given to them 135.

Sacramental seal: what it is 406; how many kinds of obligation it has 407; whence it arises 407; it is not permitted to use a probable opinion in the matter of the seal 407; the obligation of the seal ceases if the penitent has given license of speaking 408.

Subject of the seal: the confessor is bound to the seal 409; all who receive knowledge of confession 410; when one who reads another's written confession is bound to the seal 410.

-- matter: essential, accidental; direct, indirect 411 ff.; sins themselves 411; when circumstances which are manifested for declaring sins 412; when imposed penances 412; defects of the penitent, his virtues, absolution given or denied 413, 414; when the scrupulosity of the penitent 413.

-- violation: it can be violated directly and indirectly 415; when it is violated by use of knowledge of confession 416; direct violation does not admit smallness of matter, indirect violation admits it 415; when by a denied confession certificate it is violated 417; whether a confessor seeking counsel violates the seal 417.

Simulation of sacraments: what it is; formal and material 38; never licit 39.

Solicitation in confession: what it is 373; when it is considered done in confession 375; under what conditions it is to be denounced 374; see Denunciation.

Spectacles: which are licit, which illicit 421.

Hope: whether it must be elicited before confession 264.

Betrothals: what they are 525; unilateral promise 526; conditions of valid betrothals 528 ff.; whether those entered from fear avail 530; between impeded persons 532, 538; their form 531; how they are divided 534; between impubes 532; through a procurator 536; against the will of parents 536; under condition, if the pope dispensed 538, 540; with a non-Catholic person 538; their effects 539; to what occult betrothals bind, those entered under condition 533, 540; how they can be dissolved 541; when they are dissolved by law itself 542 ff.; when they can be dissolved 545 ff.; what defects the betrothed must manifest 546; whether they can be dissolved by their own authority 548; to what one is bound who unjustly dissolves them 549.

Stipend of Mass: whence it arose 183; it is permitted to demand it 183; only one for one Mass 184; it induces a grave obligation of justice 184; how much it can be 185; who must apply from a stipend for a living person satisfies by saying a requiem Mass 184; one who must apply in honor of some saint is not bound to say a votive Mass 184; when a Mass owed from a stipend must be said 187; how many stipends can be accepted at once 188; whether it is permitted to commit celebration to another while retaining part of the stipend 191; it is not permitted to give stipends to booksellers and merchants, etc. 190; remaining stipends are to be handed over to the ordinary at the end of the year 188; under what conditions stipends of Masses can be handed over to others 189 ff.; stipends are to be noted in a special book 186.

Sterility: what it is, how it differs from impotence 599.

Superiors: whether they can command the application of Mass 196.

Deaf-mutes: whether they are capable of the Eucharist and absolution 138; as to gaining indulgences 322; whether they can enter betrothals 532.

Reception of a sacrament: valid, licit, worthy, fruitful 10; invalid and illicit, how great a sin it is 10; what is required for valid reception 41; what is required for licit reception 42; no attention is required for valid reception 41; what disposition is required for licit reception 42.

Tax (composition) for matrimonial dispensation: what it contains and when it must be paid 618.

Witness of matrimony: who can be one and how he must assist 650; whether he licitly assists at civil matrimony 681.

Theater see Spectacles.

Treasury of the Church: what it is 311; whether a Mass not applied remains in the treasury of the Church 174.

Title: various titles for an indulgence in the article of death 328; distinction between personal titles and a universal title 328; titles by which someone becomes a subject as to jurisdiction 339; titles by which someone acquires his own bishop 463; canonical title 473; see Error.

Tonsure (first): it is a disposition to orders 451; its effects 451.

Extreme unction: its definition 428; its primary and secondary effects 429, 430; how it produces health of body 430; when it produces an effect 431; how it is to be conferred if there is danger in delay 437; how it is conferred on several at the same time 438; whether it must be ministered 441; whether it must be received 446.

Matter of extreme unction: valid remote matter 432; licit remote matter 433; proximate matter 434; how the anointings are to be made 435.

-- form: what it is 436; what words are essential 436; in a case of necessity 437.

Minister of extreme unction: who can validly, who licitly confer it 439; to whom regulars can confer it 439; how it is to be administered 440; whether he must administer it 441; when it must be administered under condition 445.

-- subject: who can validly receive it 442, 443; who can licitly receive it 444; when it can be repeated 447.

Viaticum: when the divine precept urges 137; one who receives sacrilegiously does not satisfy the precept 138; whether he is bound who communicated shortly before or on the same day 138; whether viaticum may be administered several times 138; by what rite it must be ministered 132; whether it is permitted to carry it with covered head, on horseback, sitting in a carriage 132; whether it is permitted to carry it secretly 132; to whom regulars can minister 127; what must be done if the sick person vomits the sacred host 132.

Wine: what kind of matter it is of the Eucharist see Eucharist.

Visit of a church: what is required for gaining indulgences 321.