index — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Volume I: Alphabetical Index of Matters
which are found in the first volume of the Manual of Moral Theology.
The pages are not indicated, but the marginal numbers.
A
Abbreviation of life, when licit, 113.
Abomination, how it is opposed to charity, 564.
Aboulia, a morbid state, 93.
Abrogation of law, what it is, 270; how it happens, ib.; abrogation of custom, 282.
Acatholics, see Heretics, Schismatics, Infidels.
Acceptance of a law on the part of the people, whether it is necessary, 203.
Acedia, what it is, 433; its malice, 434; its daughters, 435; its remedies, 436.
Acquisition of a privilege, 265; of virtues, 456 sqq.
Act, what it is, 26; those acts are not human acts which are elicited by the vegetative power, by those who lack the use of reason, nor first-first acts or acts of man, ib.; a human act and a moral act are materially the same, 28; divisions of human acts, 29 sqq.; genesis of the human act, 34; principles of the human act are cognition and will, ib. and 53 sqq.; whence the morality of acts is to be taken, 99; the sources of morality are the object, 111, circumstances, 114, end, 120; there does not exist in the individual an indifferent human act, 127; whether the external act and the event influence the morality of the human act, 132 sqq.; merit of human acts, 136 sqq.; whether internal acts can be commanded by human law, 182; heroic acts, 184.
external, of itself does not increase morality, but only accidentally, 133.
internal, whether the Church can command them, 183.
Stranger, who he is, 193.
Advertence required for a human act, 36; divisions, ib.; for mortal sin, 37, 365; whether the inadvertence of a customary sinner excuses from sin, 47.
Building of a heretical church, or of another thing destined for illicit uses, when it can be done, 620.
Equiprobabilism, what it teaches, 341; its arguments, 347; its difficulties, 348.
Equity, see Epikeia.
Age, at which the obligation of observing laws begins, 189.
Affected ignorance, whether it lessens the voluntary, 46; it increases fault, 42.
Alphonsus, St., his authority in moral theology, 7; he defends the system of equiprobabilism, 341.
Ambition, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, 413.
Insane persons, to which laws they are subject, 151, 153, 187.
Love, what it is and of how many kinds, 551; its causes and effects, ib.; whether love of happiness and beatific love are perfectly human acts, 27; love as a passion is the root of all the other passions, 74.
Analysis of the human act, 34; of the act of faith, 486.
Maidservant, see Servants.
Apostasy from the faith, what it is and how it is distinguished from heresy, 512; apostasy from the faith, from orders, from religion are distinguished, ib.; apostasy to the Masonic sect, 513; apostasy from the faith: its penalties, 517.
Free choice, see Liberty.
Architect, whether he can construct buildings destined for a depraved end, 620.
Associations of workers, 523.
Craftiness, insofar as it is opposed to prudence by excess, 635.
Audacity, as it is a passion, 82.
Increase of infused virtues, 475; of faith, 493.
Driver, whether he can transport someone to a brothel, 619.
Avarice, its notion, 416; its malice, 417; daughters, 418; remedies, 419.
B
Beatitudes, what they are, 455.
Beatitude of man, what it is and in what it consists, 21 sqq.; how it can be obtained, 24.
Acatholic Bibles, to kiss them, 526.
Bookseller, whether he can sell depraved books, 623.
Blasphemy, insofar as it is opposed to the profession of faith, 520.
Ecclesiastical goods, what they are, 36.
C
Cremation of corpses, see Cremation.
Blindness of mind is a sad effect of lust, 420.
Privilege of the canon, violated, 541.
Singing in heretical churches, whether it can be done by Catholics, 526; whether it is licit to employ heterodox singers in our churches, 524.
Capital vices, 406.
Chapter, how it is punished when it appeals to a future general council, 530.
Charity, what it is, 551 sq.; as it is a theological virtue, it has God as its primary object, 552; its formal object quo, 554; it includes three acts, 555; it is true friendship with God, 556, and consequently effects the destruction of mortal sin, 557; its properties, 558; its excellence, 559; how it is the form of the virtues, ib.; its necessity, 560; when the act of charity must be elicited, 563; the vices opposed to the charity of God are hatred and acedia, 564 sq.; charity extends also to ourselves and to our body, 566 sqq.; sins opposed to charity toward ourselves, 568; extension of charity to neighbor, 570 sqq.; to enemies, 571 sqq.; order of charity with respect to the persons to be loved, 579; with respect to the goods to be loved, 583; works of charity, 587 sqq.; sins against charity of neighbor, 604 sqq.
Casuistic moral theology, what it is and how it is to be employed, 9.
Innkeeper, his cooperation in drunkenness, in eating forbidden foods, in depraved gatherings, etc., 622.
Cause exempting and excusing from law, see Excuse and Exemption.
Caution, as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Certitude, what it is and of how many kinds, 324 sqq.; what kind is required for acting licitly, 326 sqq.; how that certitude is to be obtained when doubt exists, 331 sqq.
Surgical operation, whether it must be undergone to save life, 567.
Dances, when they are illicit, 615.
Circumcision now cannot be employed licitly as a religious ceremony, 5, but only for the sake of health, 511.
Circumspection, as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Circumstances are sometimes a source of morality, 116; their number, 118; division, 119.
Civil law, what obligation it induces, 286; its object, 290; civil law concerning taxes to be paid, 291 sqq.; concerning military service to be performed, 296 sqq.
Coercion, see Violence.
Thoughts about an evil thing, see Morose delectation.
Collision of obligations, 236.
Colorable title, what it is, 61; it suffices for legitimate prescription, 61.
Residence, what is required to obtain domicile or quasi-domicile, 193.
Communication with heretics and infidels is one thing civil, another religious, 522; religious communication is either positive or negative, either formal or material, ib.; civil communication with heretics is not of itself prohibited, 523; likewise negative religious communication, 524; yet there are several exceptions, ib.; active formal communication in sacred things is never licit, 525; material communication in sacred things is sometimes licit, 526 sq.
System of compensation, as a moral system, 344, 351.
General and particular councils, their legislative power, 178.
Sacred Congregation of the Council, 170.
Concupiscence is taken either as passion in general or as a special passion, namely desire, 71, 76; antecedent concupiscence increases the voluntary, but lessens the free, 89.
Connection of virtues, what it is and what kind it is, 464 sqq.
Confessor, how many sins he commits, existing in the state of mortal sin, who hears several confessions, 380.
Roman Congregations, their offices and authority, 167 sqq.; their decisions in matters of faith, 519.
Spouse, see Woman.
Conscience, its diverse acceptations, 302; its difference from synderesis, moral science, prudence, natural law, 303; its divisions, 304; whether it is licit to follow an erroneous conscience, 307; lax conscience: its cause, 315; its remedies, 316; perplexed conscience, 317; scrupulous conscience, 318; signs of a scrupulous conscience, 320; causes, 321; remedies, 322; certain conscience, 324; it alone is the right rule of morals, 326; doubtful conscience, 328; it is never licit to act with a practically doubtful conscience, 330; means for resolving doubt, 331 sqq.; education of conscience, 353 sqq.; remorse of conscience caused by sin, 392.
Conscription of soldiers, 297.
Consent of the legislator required for introducing legitimate custom, 278; consent required for mortal sin, 366; signs of imperfect consent, ib.
Evangelical counsels, what they are, 162; gift of counsel, 450.
Counsel, as a gift, 450.
Consistorial Congregation, 168.
Custom, what it is, 272; of how many kinds it is, 274; conditions required for legitimate custom, 276 sqq.; effects of legitimate custom, 279 sqq.; its cessation, 282.
Formal contempt of law, 207; of precept or of one commanding, 371.
Contention, what kind of sin it is, 414.
Contract, force and fear in a contract, 71.
Contumely against God, see Blasphemy.
Cooperation in sin, in how many ways it can happen, 617; it is either material or formal, ib.; material cooperation is sometimes licit, 618, but formal cooperation never, 619; evil cooperation in religious and political matters, 620; evil cooperation of servants, 621; of innkeepers, 622; of merchants, 623.
One's own body is to be loved with true charity, 567; sins against this charity, 568.
Fraternal correction, what it is and how it differs from paternal and judicial correction, 599; its obligation, 600; when this obligation arises, 601; manner of correction, 602; when he is to be corrected who sins materially from invincible ignorance, 603.
Corruption of officials in defrauding taxes, 295; in breaking out of prison, 301.
Crass ignorance, see Ignorance.
To believe, see Faith.
Credibility, see Motives.
Excessive credulity, 509.
Cremation, Catholics who call in an acatholic minister in the cremation of a corpse are suspected of heresy, 526, 4(c).
Worship, whether it is licit to be present at acatholic worship, 526 sq.
D
Condemned theses, see Propositions.
Decalogue contains the secondary principles of the natural law, 153; how it must be known by all, 501.
Declaration, see Interpretation.
Defrauding of taxes, 295; of military service, 300.
Delectation, insofar as it is a passion, 78; morose delectation, what it is, 395; its moral character, 396; specific malice, 397; distinctive criteria, 398.
Uncovering of a woman's breast, scandalous, 613.
Denunciation of a sinner, when it must be made with fraternal correction omitted, 602.
Deposit of faith, what it is, 485.
Deserter from military service, how he sins, 301.
Desire, as it is a passion, 76; desire of an evil thing: its morality, 403; whether it is licit to desire an evil on account of a good effect, 405.
Slothfulness, see Acedia.
Desperation, what it is as a passion, 81; as a vice against theological hope, 548; its malice, ib.; its causes, ib.; its remedies, ib.
Desuetude abrogating a law, 281.
Newspapers, see Periodicals.
Love, see Charity.
Discord, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, 414; insofar as it harms charity of neighbor, 604.
Dispensation, what it is and how it differs from epikeia, license, declaration, and privilege, 238; divisions, 239; author of dispensation, 240; the Supreme Pontiff, 241; bishop, 242; regular superior, 243; pastor, 244; regular confessors, 245; subject receiving dispensation (pilgrims, exempt religious, the one dispensing himself), 247; conditions required for dispensation, 251 sqq.; defects of dispensation, 255; its cessation, 259; its interpretation, 262.
- in irregularities, 245.
Disputation with heretics, 526.
Dissimulation and concealment of faith, 507.
Distinction of sins, specific, 373; numerical, 376.
Docility, as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Dogmas necessary to be known by necessity of means and of precept, 495 sqq.
Domicile, what it is, 193; what quasi-domicile is, ib.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit, their notion and number, 445 sqq.; their relation to the virtues, beatitudes, and fruits of the Holy Spirit, ib.
Doubt, what it is, 328; of how many kinds, 329; how practical doubt is to be resolved, 331 sqq.; whether a doubtful law obliges, 333; in doubt one must stand for that for which presumption stands, 334; in doubt the condition of the possessor is better, 335.
Duration of virtues, 471.
E
Ecclesiastical law, see Law.
Education of one's own conscience, how it is to be obtained, 353 sqq.
Disordered egoism is some sign of hysteria, 96; it is a sin against love of self, 568.
Almsgiving, its notion, 588; its obligation, ib.; when the precept of giving alms obliges, 590; quantity of alms to be given, 595; who can give alms, 596; manner of giving alms, 597.
Depraved periodicals, whether it is licit to sell them, 624; to publish announcements or articles in them, ib.
Epikeia, when it is licit to employ epikeia in laws, 231; epikeia properly so called cannot be employed in the natural law, 156, nor in an invalidating law, 233.
Bishop, his legislative power, 179; his power of dispensing in laws, 242.
Error, what it is, 39; how it influences the voluntary and the morality of an act, 45 sqq.; error in dispensation, 256; how an erroneous conscience obliges, 307 sqq.; pertinacious error in faith is heresy, 514.
Eubulia, as it is a potential part of prudence, 633.
Eudaemonism, as it is a system of morality, 101.
Examination of conscience of the unlearned, 47.
Excuse from law, whether it is licit to posit causes excusing from law, 237.
Exemption from law, whether it is licit to posit causes exempting from law, 237; exemption from law granted to children, 189; to pilgrims, 194.
Ecstasy is an effect of vehement love, 551.
External act indeed does not increase morality of itself, but it is to be declared in confession, 133 sqq.
F
Faculties granted to confessors, 245; delegated to bishops and superiors general of religious orders do not expire by the death of the indultary, 264.
Servants cannot give alms from the goods of the master, 596; their cooperation in the sins of the master, 621.
Foolish persons, see Insane persons.
Woman, see Women.
Legal fiction, what it is, 220.
Faith, the various significations of this name, 478; what theological faith is, 479; proximate and remote subject of the act of faith, 480 sq.; object of faith, 482 sq.; symbols of faith, 485; profession of faith, ib. and 504 sqq.; analysis and genesis of faith, 486; properties of faith, 487 sqq.; its divisions, 491; unformed faith, 492; increase and loss of the virtue of faith, 493 sq.; its necessity of means and of precept, 495 sqq.; faith in desire, or faith broadly so called, does not suffice, 497 sqq.; objects necessarily to be believed, 499; when a man is bound to elicit acts of faith, 500 sqq.; concealment and dissimulation of faith, 507; vices opposed to faith, 508 sqq.; doubting in faith, 520; dangers to faith, 521 sqq.
End, its definition, 15; divisions, 16; end and good are materially the same, 19; God is the ultimate end of man, so that man is bound to tend toward God and glorify him, 20; in the attainment of this end alone consists the ultimate beatitude of man, 21; end as a source of morality, 120 sqq.; the end does not justify the means, 124; man is bound in all his acts to set before himself an honorable end, and cannot licitly act for pleasure alone, 125; when a law ceases on account of the total cessation of its end, 271.
Sources of moral theology, 5 sqq.
Form of all virtues is charity, 559.
Fortitude, as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, 452.
Freemasons, see Masons.
Fraternal correction, see Correction.
Fraud, what it is, 418; it is sometimes a daughter of avarice, ib.; fraud in taxes, 295; in evading military service, 300.
Frequenting an acatholic church, 527; acatholic schools, 528.
Fruits of the Holy Spirit, 454.
Cosmetic paint, whether it is licit, 538 and 613.
Flight, insofar as it is a passion, 77.
Funeral, whether it is licit to be present at funerals of acatholics, 526; those who request a funeral from an acatholic minister are suspected of heresy, ib.
G
Joy, as it is a passion, 78; sinful joy, 399; how it is specified, 400; joy over an act of marriage, whether past or future, 401.
Genesis and analysis of the human act, 34; of the act of faith, 486.
Gnome, as it is a potential part of prudence, 633.
Gluttony, as a capital vice, 425; from its genus it is a venial sin, 426; its daughters, 427; its remedies, 428.
H
Habits, what they are, 438; of how many kinds they are, 439; in which powers they are found, 440; their origin and increase, 441; their diminution and corruption, 442; their influence on the morality of a human act, 90.
Heresy, its notion, 514; divisions, 515; malice, 516; ecclesiastical penalties, 517.
Heretic, penalties against heretics, 507; how they can be absolved, 517; how heretics and their descendants are irregular, 517; when it is licit to enter heretical churches, 527; to construct them, 620.
Inheritance, hereditary propensions, 90 and 439.
Heroic act, when it can be commanded by law, 184.
Hypocrisy is a daughter of pride, 414.
Hysteria, what it is and its characteristic signs, 96; its influence on the morality of acts, 97; its cure, 98.
I
Boasting, what it is, 414; it is a daughter of pride, ib.
Fixed ideas greatly diminish the voluntary, 95; how they are caused and removed, ib.
Ignorance, what it is, 39; its divisions, 40 sqq.; its influence on human acts, 45; whether ignorance of the natural law is possible, 157 sq.; ignorance of the mysteries of faith, 499.
Images and obscene statues, insofar as they are to be removed on account of scandal, 614.
Impotence, what kind excuses from positive law, 236 sq.
Prepubescent persons are not subject to some human laws, 190. Cf. also Infants.
Inadvertence of a customary sinner, whether it excuses from sin, 47.
Inequality of sins, 363; of virtues, 467 sqq.
Vainglory, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, 414.
Mystery of the Incarnation, whether it must be believed explicitly by necessity of means, 499.
Inhabitant, who he is, 193.
Inconsideration in acting, insofar as it arises from lust, 420; insofar as it is opposed to prudence, 634.
Inconstancy often arises from lust, 420.
Indifferent acts, whether they exist in species and in the individual, 128 sqq.
Infants, who they are, 188; whether they are subject to laws, 189; it is not licit to provoke them to transgress the natural or divine law, 151.
Infidels, what positive and negative infidelity is, 509; malice of infidelity, 510; communication with infidels, 511; infidels are not subject to ecclesiastical laws, 187.
Unformed faith, 492; hope, 538.
Enemy is to be loved from charity, 571; therefore every hatred of enmity and every desire of vengeance must be put away, 573 sq.; at least common signs of love are to be shown to an enemy, 575; reconciliation is to be sought, 577.
Inquiry necessary for resolving practical doubt, 331.
Intellect, insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, 448; insofar as it is an intellectual virtue, 457; insofar as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Intention in the genesis of the human act, 34; intention necessary for the fulfillment of a law, 223.
Internal act, whether it can be commanded by human law, 182 sq.
Interpretation of law, what it is, 227; of how many kinds it is, 228; rules to be observed in the interpretation of law, 230; of dispensation, 262; of privileges, 266.
Interruption, there are as many sins as there are evil acts of the will morally interrupted, 378.
Envy, its notion, 421; its malice, 422; its daughters, 423; its remedies, 424; envy of fraternal grace is a sin against the Holy Spirit, 360.
Involuntary, what it is and how it is distinguished from the non-voluntary, 56.
Anger, what it is as a passion, 84; as a capital vice, 429; malice of anger, i.e. of irascibility, 430; its daughters, 431; its remedies, 432.
Invalidating law, 213 sqq.
Jews are not to be violently impelled to the Catholic faith, 511; yet they can be compelled not to hinder Catholic worship, ib.; civil communication with them today seems licit, 523.
Juridical fault, what it is and when it induces an obligation of restitution, 92, 98.
L
Lax conscience, see Conscience.
Laxism, as a moral system, what it teaches, 343; its defenders, ib.
Reading of depraved books induces grave danger to faith, 530.
Legislator, how he is subject to his own laws, 191 sq.; his consent necessary for valid custom, 278; a civil legislator can transfer the dominion of subjects, 286.
Law, what it is, 142; its four acts, 145; its divisions, 146; what eternal law is and how all other laws must be derived from it, 149 sq.; what natural law is, 151; its existence, 152; its object, 153; its properties, 154; how it is immutable and indispensable, 155; how it can be unknown, 157 sq.; positive divine law of the New and Old Law, 159 sqq.; how dispensation can have force in this law, 164; authors of human law (ecclesiastical), 166 sqq.; object of human law, 181 sqq.; who are subject to human law, 186 sqq.; promulgation and acceptance of law, 200 sqq.; obligation of human law, 205 sqq.; what penal law is and how it obliges, 209 sqq.; invalidating law: its notion, 213; its effects, 214 sq.; law founded on a false presumption, 216 sqq.; manner and time for fulfilling law, 221 sqq.; interpretation of law, 226 sqq.; cessation of law, 234 sqq.; dispensation, 238 sqq.; privilege, 263 sqq.; civil law and its obligation, 284 sqq.
Human liberty (free choice), what it is and of how many kinds, 50; its existence is proved, 51; liberty so called of conscience, 302; liberty of worship, 511; penalties against violators of ecclesiastical liberty, 510.
Free, what it is, 50; of how many kinds it is, ib.; how it is distinguished from the voluntary, 49.
Depraved books cause vehement danger to faith, 530; cooperation in editing and disseminating depraved books, 623.
Renting a house to prostitutes and other depraved persons, when it is licit, 622.
Sacred place, what it is, 545.
Lust, strictly taken and directly willed, is a mortal sin from its whole genus, 420.
M
Stain of sin, what it is, 392; what kind of stain is produced by venial sin, 393.
Teacher in acatholic schools, 529.
Malice of sin, in what it formally consists, 359; what sins are called sins of malice, 360.
Notorious Masons cannot be admitted as sponsors in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation, nor be granted ecclesiastical burial, 513.
Grave and light matter in sin, 364.
Material sin must be avoided insofar as is possible, 153, 344, 351.
Physician cannot employ less safe remedies while safer ones are left aside, 333; a physician unjustly freeing someone from military service, 300.
Mean of thing and of reason in the virtues, 462; necessity of means, 494.
Memory, as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Mendicant poor who are fictitious, how they sin, 598.
Mendicant religious orders, their privileges with respect to diverse dispensations, 243 sqq.
Merit of a human act, what it is, 136; of how many kinds it is, 137; conditions required for merit, 139; what we can merit, 140.
Fear, what it is, 67; its divisions, 68; its influence on the morality of human acts, 69; positive laws are not accustomed to oblige under grave fear, 70.
Military service prescribed by civil law, how it obliges, 296; how fraudulent withdrawal from military service to be performed induces an obligation of restitution, 300.
Mercy, what it is, 587; corporal and spiritual works of mercy, ib.
Morality, what it is, 99; false opinions concerning the norm of morality, 100 sqq.; divisions or species of morality, 109; its principles or sources are object, circumstances, and end, 110 sqq.; morality of the external act and of the subsequent event, 132 sqq.
Mortal sin, what it is, 361; its existence, 362; required conditions, 364; mortal sin from its genus and from its whole genus, ib.; effects of mortal sin, 392.
Motives of credibility, what they are, 486.
First-first movements of sensuality are not venial sins, 26.
Women, when their adornment furnishes scandal, 613.
Mysteries of faith to be believed, 499 sqq.
N
O
Object is the principal source of morality, 112; how it specifies sins, 373.
Oblivion which excuses from sin, 45, 365.
Obreption of dispensation, 256.
Concealment of faith, 507.
Hatred, insofar as it is a passion, 75; insofar as it is a vice against charity of God, 564; against charity of neighbor, 573; it often arises from envy, 423.
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, 167.
Omission, sin of omission, 360.
Works of mercy, 587.
Workers, with respect to interconfessional associations, 523.
Opinion, notion, 328; the confessor is not a judge of opinions, 352.
Lord's Prayer, whether it must be known by all, 501.
Natural and supernatural order, what it is, 25; all human acts must be referred to the supernatural order, and consequently a merely philosophical sin cannot exist, ib.
- of charity, with respect to the persons to be loved, 579 sqq.; with respect to the goods to be loved, 583 sqq.
Organ, a heretic can temporarily exercise the office of organist in a Catholic church, 524, but a Catholic cannot in a heretical church, 526.
Adornment of women, 613.
P
Pastor, what he can do concerning relaxation of ecclesiastical law, 244.
Passion is taken in either the Aristotelian or the Platonic sense, 72; according to Aristotle there are eleven passions, 73; influence of the passions on the voluntary, 85.
Pathological states, how they influence the voluntary, 91 sqq.
The poor, whether they have a strict right to alms, 589; fictitious poor, how they sin, 598.
Sin, its diverse names, 357; its definition, 358; its formal constitutive element, 359; its divisions, 360; how sins are distinguished specifically, 373 sqq.; numerically, 376 sqq.; causes of sins, 382 sqq.; temptations to sin, 385; what internal sins are, 394 sqq.; their specific malice, 397 sqq.; capital sins, 406; sins insofar as they are remote matter of penance, see in the treatise on penance.
mortal, its essence, 361; its existence, 362; inequality of mortal sins, 363; their gravity to be determined, ib.; required conditions, 364 sqq.; its effects, 392.
venial, its essence, 367; existence, 369; its divisions, 370; its effects, 393.
Pilgrim, who he is, 193; he is not held by strictly territorial particular laws of his domicile or quasi-domicile, 194; nor by the territorial laws of the place where he is staying (yet there are exceptions), 195; he is held by the common laws which are observed in the place of residence, 196; he can use the privileges of the place of residence, but not of his domicile, 197; by whom he can be dispensed in laws, 248.
Spiritual perfection, in what it consists, and its relation to the state of perfection, 624.
Danger, see Scandal, Sin.
Perplexed conscience, 317; rules to be observed, ib.
Final perseverance, how it falls under merit, 140.
Pertinacity, as it is a daughter of pride, 414; as it causes formal heresy, 514.
Piety, insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, 451; as a special virtue, it is a certain protestation of charity which one has toward parents and country, 569; its object, 570; offices of piety, 580 sqq.
Penal law, its notion, existence, obligation, 209 sqq.
Roman Pontiff, his legislative power, 166; his power of declaring divine law, 164, 241; of dispensing in all ecclesiastical laws, 241; of dispensing and invalidating vows, 416, 422.
Moral positivism errs concerning the ultimate norm of morality, 104.
Preambles of faith, what they are, 486.
Precept, how it is distinguished from law, 143.
Precipitation in acting, insofar as it arises from lust, 420; insofar as it is opposed to prudence, 634.
Religious prelate, see Superior.
Presumption can be taken in diverse senses, 549; insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of hope, ib.; its causes and remedies, ib.; insofar as it is a daughter of pride, 412; law founded on a false presumption, ib. and 216.
Depraved desire, see Desire.
First-first movements, 38.
Reflex principles of morality, 332 sqq.
Privilege, its notion, 263; its divisions, 264; its acquisition, 265; its interpretation, 266; its non-use, 267; its cessation, 268.
Probabiliorism, what it teaches, 340; reasons for it, 345; difficulties against it, 346.
Pure probabilism, what it teaches, 342; arguments for it, 349; difficulties against it, 350.
Probability, what it is, 342; of how many kinds it is, ib.; when certainly it is not licit to follow a probable opinion, 333.
Profession of faith, 485; divine precept of professing faith, 504 sqq.; who by ecclesiastical law are bound to emit a profession of faith, 506.
Promise of God, as necessary for merit, 139; it is not the formal object quo of hope, 536.
Promulgation of law, its notion, 200; necessity, 201; manner, 202.
Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, 172.
Propositions qualified with a theological note, 518; they are heretical, proximate to heresy, erroneous, rash, etc., ib.
Providence, as a virtue annexed to prudence, 631.
Prudence, as an intellectual virtue, 457; as a moral virtue, 625; it is either acquired or infused, 626; dignity and excellence of the virtue of prudence, 629; its act, 630; its integral parts, 631; its subjective parts, 632; its potential parts, 633; opposed vices, 634 sqq.; means for acquiring prudence, 636.
Puberty, see Prepubescent persons.
Children before the seventh year, see Infants.
Pusillanimity often arises from acedia, 435.
Q
R
"Radio," to hear heterodox sermons, 527.
Rationalism constitutes an insufficient norm of morality, 102.
Liability of penalty of mortal sin, 392; of venial sin, 393.
Reconciliation with an enemy is necessary, 577.
Reflex principles, how they can be employed for resolving practical doubt, 332.
Sacred Congregation placed over the affairs of religious, 171.
Remedies against scruples, 322; against temptations, 389; against pride, 415; against avarice, 419; against lust, 420; against envy, 424; against gluttony, 428; against anger, 432; against acedia, 436.
Restitution on account of defrauded taxes, 293; on account of evaded military service, 296 sqq.
Revocation of law, 270; of dispensation, 259; of privilege, 268; of custom, 282.
Rigorism, see Tutiorism.
Sacred Congregation of Rites, 174.
Quarrel, what it is, 431; it is accustomed to arise from anger, ib.
Pontiff, Roman, see Roman Pontiff.
S
Discipline of the Sacraments, Sacred Congregation of, 169.
Saltations, see Dances.
Greeting of an enemy, when it is necessary, 576.
Wisdom, as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, 447; as it is an intellectual virtue, 457.
Suitable satisfaction can be demanded from an enemy, 577.
Scandal, what it is, 605; its divisions, 606; malice, 607; when the obligation of avoiding scandal is present, 610; reparation of scandal, 612; scandal in certain particular cases, 613 sqq.
Schismatics, who they are, 509.
Schools must be diligently watched over by bishops, 528; when acatholic and neutral schools can licitly be attended, ib.; when it is licit to take up the office of teacher or another office in the same schools, ib.
Science of moral theology, what it is, 2; gift of knowledge, 449; intellectual virtue of science, 457.
Sacred Scripture, how it is a source of moral theology, 5.
Scrupulous conscience, its signs, causes, remedies, 319 sqq.; privileges of the scrupulous, 323.
Scurrility, what it is, 427; it often arises from gluttony, ib.
Half-full advertence, 36.
Common signs to be shown to enemies, 575.
Simultaneity of heterodox worship in some church can be tolerated by the bishop, 526.
Shrewdness, as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Infima species of sins, whence it is taken, 373 sq.
Spectacles are very often accustomed to cause grave scandal, 615 and 617.
Hope, what it is as a passion, 80; as a theological virtue, 533; object of theological hope, 535; the formal object quo is omnipotence helping, 536; secondary motives of hope, 537; remote and proximate subject, 538; properties, 541 sq.; necessity, 543 sqq.; vices against hope, 547 sqq.; how hope is to be cultivated, 550; hope as it is an unformed virtue, 476.
State of grace is required for merit, 140.
- of perfection, includes the three evangelical counsels, 624; how it relates to spiritual perfection itself, ib.
Pathological states, as opposed to the voluntary, 91 sqq.
Sacred Congregation of Studies, 177.
Subjectivism, as it is a false system of morality, 103.
Subreption in dispensation, 256.
Pride, what it is, 409; its malice, 410; pride is a most dangerous vice, ib.; its daughters, 411; remedies, 415; how it causes vehement danger to faith, 532.
Superior, who can make laws, 179.
- religious, is accustomed to have quasi-episcopal power, and consequently over his subjects he can exercise almost the same acts as a bishop over diocesan persons, 243.
Superstition, insofar as it is contrary to the virtue of faith, 509.
Whispering, often arises from envy, 423.
Synderesis, as it is a potential part of prudence, 633.
Moral systems for having moral certitude when doubt exists, 337 sqq.; system of compensation, 344, 351.
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Rash propositions, what they are, 518.
Churches of heretics, when it is licit to enter them, 527; to construct them or assist them with money, 620.
Time for fulfilling laws, 225.
Temptation is taken in diverse senses, 385; temptation to sin arises from diverse causes, 386; to consent to temptation is sin, not to feel it, 387; it is not licit rashly to provoke temptation, 388; remedies against temptations, 389.
Tepidity, see Acedia.
Theater, see Spectacles.
Moral theology, its nominal definition, 1; real definition, 2; end, 3; in the strict sense it cannot be called an art, 3, note 2; its relation to ethics and dogmatic theology, 4; its sources, 5 sqq.; concerning the use of reason in moral theology, 8; method to be employed, 9; history of moral theology, 10 sqq.
Condemned theses, see Propositions.
Thomas Aquinas, St., his authority, 1, prologue.
Timidity, as it is a passion of fear, 83.
Fear, as a passion, 83; as a gift of the Holy Spirit, 453; as it is joined with the virtue of hope, 542.
Religious toleration, 511.
Tradition, its use in moral theology, 6.
Taxes, what they are, 291; divisions, 292; just tax laws oblige in conscience, 293; whether from commutative or legal justice, 294; when from defrauding taxes an obligation of restitution arises, 295.
Most Holy Trinity, whether it must be believed explicitly by necessity of means, 499.
Sadness, insofar as it is a passion, 79; sadness concerning another's good is envy, 421; concerning spiritual good is acedia, 433.
Tutiorism, absolute or mitigated, as moral systems, 338 sq.
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Vagrants, who they are, 193; how they are held by territorial laws, 198; for obtaining dispensations they must have recourse to the superior of the place in which here and now they are staying, 247.
Customs duties, see Taxes.
Venial sin, its notion and intimate character, 367; its existence, 369; its divisions, 370; its effects, 393.
Truths of faith necessarily and explicitly to be believed, 495.
Dishonest garments of a woman, 613.
Old Testament, how its moral, ceremonial, and judicial precepts oblige, 5, 163.
Widow rejoicing over the use of a past marriage, when she sins, 401.
To take vengeance is never licit, 574.
Violence (the violent), what it is, 63; violence can be brought upon the external act, but not upon the internal act of the will, 64 sq.; whether an oppressed woman is bound to suffer death rather than her violation, 66; violence as it is a daughter of avarice, 418.
Capital vices, what they are, 406; their number, 407; their malice, 408.
Voluntary, what it is, 48; it is distinguished from the willed, the spontaneous, and the natural act, ib.; of how many kinds it is, 49; what the indirect voluntary is, and when it is licit to admit an indirectly voluntary evil, 57 sqq.; enemies of the voluntary are ignorance, 45; violence, 63; fear, 67; passion or concupiscence, 72; certain bodily pathological states, 91.
Pleasure, it is not licit to act for pleasure alone, 125.