index — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Volume III: Alphabetical Index of Matters (all three volumes)
which are found in the entire Manual of Moral Theology.
The Roman numeral indicates the volume; the Arabic numeral, the marginal number. Where the Roman numeral is absent, the volume last indicated is understood.
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Abbot as minister of ordination, III 596; see Religious Superior.
Abbreviation of life, when licit, II 113; of Mass, see Interruption; of the form of absolution, III 328; of confession, 378 sqq.; of the form of extreme unction, 575.
Inordinate self-abjection is a vice opposed to humility, II 715; casting away of the sacred species, III 506.
Abjuration of heresy required from a new convert, III 138.
Taking another's property, when it is licit, II 86 sq.
Ablution, what is required in baptism, III 102; how it is to be made in Mass if the priest celebrates twice, 289.
Abomination, how it is opposed to charity, I 564; abomination or detestation, how it is present in contrition, III 339.
Abortion, what it is, II 137; to procure abortion directly and indirectly, 140 sqq.; penalties against those procuring abortion, 142; the mother herself incurs these penalties, ib.; how abortive fetuses are to be baptized, III 131.
Aboulia, a morbid state, I 93.
Abrogation of law, what it is, I 270; how it occurs, ib.; of custom, 282.
Interruption of Mass, III 304; of intercourse, 699.
Absent persons can neither confess nor be absolved sacramentally, III 330; they can be absolved from censures, 497; they can contract matrimony, 736, but not betrothals, 713.
Absence of canons from choir, II 366.
Absolution from sins must be given vocally to a penitent morally present, III 330; absolution by telephone, 331; conditional absolution, when licit, 332; direct and indirect absolution, 321; absolution cannot be given in a deprecatory manner, 333; when absolution is to be repeated, 334; absolution at the point of death, 424; from papal cases, 425; from episcopal cases, 427; to whom absolution is to be given, denied, or deferred, 438; see Customary Sinner, Relapsing Sinner, Occasionary.
of an accomplice, see Accomplice.
from censures, see Censure.
Those presuming to absolve from excommunications most specially or specially reserved to the Roman Pontiff incur excommunication, III 520; absolving an accomplice, 454 sqq.
Abstinence, insofar as it is a special virtue, II 649; its act is fasting, 650; the law of abstinence from eating meat, 663; excusing causes, 664; the vice opposed to abstinence, namely, gluttony, 667.
Abuse of confession, see Accomplice, Solicitation.
- of matrimony, see Onanism.
Academic duels are gravely prohibited and punished, II 126.
Non-Catholics, see Heretics, Schismatics, Unbelievers.
Acceleration of birth, when it is licit, II 139.
Acceptance of a law on the part of the people, whether it is necessary, I 203; necessary in a contract of promise, II 267; in a donation, 270; in a dispensation, 420; in betrothals, III 721.
Accession, what it is as a mode of acquiring dominion, II 56.
Accidents in the Most Holy Eucharist, see Species.
False accusation of solicitation in confession, III 468; a general accusation of sins suffices in extreme necessity; likewise, it suffices if only free matter is accused, but not if it is a question of necessary matter, 325; how one is to proceed with penitents who accuse themselves too generally, ib.
Accuser, his obligations and sins, II 159.
Accused, see Defendant.
Acedia, what it is, I 433; its malice, 434; its daughters, 435; its remedies, 436.
Acolythate, what power it confers, III 589; its matter and form, 592.
Acquisition of a privilege, I 265; of virtues, 456 sqq.; of dominion, II 39.
Shares and bonds: it is licit to buy "shares" and "bonds," provided that illicit stock-exchange speculations are avoided, II 289.
Plaintiff, see Accuser.
Conjugal act, see Conjugal Debt.
Human act, what it is, I 26; those acts are not human acts which are elicited by the vegetative power or 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; the 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, and 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, I 133; it must necessarily be declared in confession, III 373.
internal, whether the Church can command them, I 183.
legitimate, which they are, III 146.
Fat is licit on days of abstinence, II 663.
Adjunction as a mode of acquiring dominion, II 56.
Adjuration, what it is, II 460; its divisions, 461; clothed with the due conditions, it is a licit and honorable act of the virtue of religion, 462. Adjuration of a demon, see Exorcism.
Administration of the sacraments: for licitly administering the sacraments, immunity from mortal sin, censures, and irregularity is ordinarily required, III 56 sq.; a Latin priest can administer the Eucharist in leavened bread and, conversely, an Eastern priest in unleavened bread, 171; administration of Communion, see Distribution.
Notation of baptism, III 148; of confirmation, 164; of Masses, 276; of order, 624; of matrimony, 776; of a marriage of conscience, 639; of a matrimonial dispensation, 776; of the legitimation of offspring, 884.
Adoption or legal relationship, insofar as it induces an impediment of matrimony, III 763; the fittingness of this impediment, ib.; its cessation, ib.
Adoration, what it is, II 383; its divisions, 384; its obligation, 385; to whom the worship of latria is to be shown, 386; to whom the worship of dulia is owed, 387; whether the cross is to be adored, 386.
Flattery is a vice opposed to the virtue of affability, II 613.
Adultery, what it is, II 703; it injures chastity and justice, ib.; obligation of restitution arising from adultery, 151 sq.; because of the adultery of one's spouse, it is licit to make an imperfect divorce, III 679; required conditions, ib.; adultery with a promise of matrimony constitutes the diriment impediment of crime, 823; likewise adultery with an attempted matrimony, 825; likewise adultery with the murder of a spouse, 826.
Adult, who is considered an adult with respect to receiving baptism, III 133; what an adult to be baptized must perform, 134 sqq.
Stranger, who he is, I 193.
Advertence required for a human act, I 36; for mortal sin, 37, 365; for prayer, II 354; for the sacraments, III 61 and 87; for Mass, II 480; whether the inadvertence of a customary sinner excuses from sin, I 47.
Advocate, his obligations and sins, II 162; whether he can plead for the obtaining of civil divorce, II 162, III 894.
Sick persons, see Illness.
Building of a heretical church, or of another thing destined for illicit uses, when it can be done, I 620.
Equiprobabilism, what it teaches, I 341; its arguments, 347; its difficulties, 348.
Equity, see Epikeia.
Equivocation, what it is and when it is licit, II 171.
Age at which the obligation of observing laws begins, I 189; for hearing obligatory Mass, II 476; for observing abstinence from forbidden foods, 663; for observing the ecclesiastical fast, 660; for confirmation, III 160; for first Communion and confession, 211; for receiving the various orders, 605; for betrothals, 722; for matrimony, 796; the over-advanced age of the bride is a canonical cause for obtaining a dispensation, 862.
Affability is a special virtue pertaining to the virtue of justice, II 612; its diverse acts, ib.; opposed vices, 613 sq.
Affected ignorance, whether it lessens the voluntary, I 46; it increases fault, 42; it does not excuse from censures and other latae sententiae penalties, III 488.
Affinity, insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, what it is, III 839; its divisions, 840; multiple affinity, ib.; its origin and fittingness, 841; computation of degrees, 843; extent of the impediment, 844; its cessation, ib.
Aggravating circumstances, whether they are to be accused in confession, III 369.
An unjust aggressor can be killed with the moderation of blameless defense, II 120 sqq., and indeed for preserving life, chastity, considerable fortune, and reputation, ib.
A slap received does not give the right to kill the striker, II 119; what a slap given in the sacrament of confirmation signifies, III 153; it is a ceremony obliging under venial sin, 162.
Alb is a vestment required under grave sin for saying Mass, III 298; it must be blessed, ib.; how it loses its blessing, 301.
Alcoholism, its remedies, II 673.
Aleatory contracts, II 313 sqq.
Illegitimate alienation of ecclesiastical goods is punished with excommunication, III 525.
Alluvion as a mode of acquiring dominion, II 56.
Alphonsus, St., his authority in moral theology, I 7; he defends the system of equiprobabilism, 341.
Altar: it is never licit to celebrate Mass except upon a duly consecrated altar, III 296; what a fixed and a portable altar are, ib.; who have the privilege of a portable altar, 295; what a fixed altar is in matters of indulgences, 565; when it loses its consecration, 296; its appointments for Mass, 297; a privileged altar, personal and local, 565; conditions for gaining the plenary indulgence of a privileged altar, ib.; a Requiem Mass is no longer required, 566; what is to be done if a priest forgot to say a Mass to be discharged at a privileged altar, 267, 565, note 120.
Aluminum is permitted for making a chalice, provided that it is gilded, III 299.
Students of religious orders, see Boarders.
Ambiguity, what it is and when it is licit, II 171.
Ambition, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, I 413; insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, II 639.
The insane, to which laws they are subject, I 151, 153, 187; they are capable of dominion, II 14; of baptism, III 125; when and how they can receive confirmation, 160; the Eucharist, 188; extreme unction, 580; they are not bound to confession, 361.
Amice, see Humeral.
Loss of the blessing or consecration of a church, III 294; of an altar, 296; of sacred vessels and vestments, 301; of a cemetery, 503.
Love, what it is and of how many kinds, I 551; its causes and effects, ib.; whether love of happiness and beatific love are perfectly human acts, 27; love as a passion and the root of all other passions, 74; love owed between parents and children, superiors and subjects, etc., II 580 sqq.; whether initial love is necessary in attrition, III 345.
Amphibology, what it is and when it is licit, II 171.
Cruets of water and wine necessary for Mass are better made of glass, but those made of gold, silver, tin, etc., are nevertheless permitted, III 299.
To amputate a bodily member is not licit except for the sake of health, II 116. See Mutilation of Oneself.
Analysis of the human act, I 34; of the act of faith, 486.
Anathema maranatha, what it is, III 499.
Anatocism is licit, II 288.
Maidservant, see Servants.
Narrowness of place as a cause for obtaining a matrimonial dispensation, III 862.
Souls detained in purgatory, whether they can pray, II 334; whether we can pray to them, 344; they can be aided by the Sacrifice of the Mass, III 242; by indulgences, 543.
Animals are distinguished as wild, tamed, and domestic, II 41; occupation of animals, ib., see also Hunting; whose flesh can be eaten on days of abstinence, 663; what kind of sin is the shameful touching of animals, 694; what kind of sin is the cruel tormenting of animals, 14.
Holy Year, see Jubilee; annual confession, III 362.
Anticipation of Matins and Lauds, from what hour it is licit, II 373.
- of dinner on fast days, II 656.
Altar antependium, its color and use, III 297.
Apostasy from the faith, what it is and how it is distinguished from heresy, I 512; apostasy from the faith, from orders, and from religion are distinguished, ib.; apostasy to the Masonic sect, 513; apostasy from the faith, its penalties, 517; apostasy is punished with excommunication, III 507; likewise apostasy from religion, 523.
Apostolic letters, see Letters.
Those appealing to a future universal council incur excommunication, III 509.
Application of form to matter in the sacraments, III 19; how it must be made, 20.
- of Mass, what it is, III 245; who can and must apply, 246; manner of applying, 247; when it is to be made, 233, 247; what if two diverse applications have been made, 248; it is indeed licit also to apply the most special fruit, but it is not licit thereby to take a double stipend, 243; for whom it is licit to apply, 249; who are excluded from application by ecclesiastical law, 250; obligation of applying by reason of the priesthood, 251; by reason of office, 254 sqq.; by reason of benefice, 259 sqq.; by reason of stipend, 262 sqq.; by reason of promise, 279; by reason of obedience, 280.
Water is the matter of baptism, III 98; when baptismal or holy water is to be employed, 99; consecration of baptismal water, 100; Eucharistic bread must be made with natural water, 170; the water mixed with wine to be consecrated must be very little, 173; drinking water is given to the sick after Communion has been received, 199.
Free choice, see Liberty.
Savings banks: it is licit to place money in them in order to obtain legitimate interest, II 289.
Architect, whether he can construct buildings destined for a depraved end, I 620.
Earnest money in betrothals, what it is and when it is to be restored after the betrothals are dissolved, III 720.
The notory art is a vain observance, II 515.
Artificial fecundation, see Fecundation.
Less honorable and shameful looks, what kind of sin they are, II 695.
Aspersion, a manner of baptizing, III 101.
Insurance, when this contract is just, II 314; frauds committed in insurance, ib.
Reservation of the Eucharist, III 225 sqq.; of sacred oils, 572.
Valid and licit assistance at matrimony, III 762 sq.; passive assistance, the parish priest cannot render it, III 764; coerced or surreptitiously obtained assistance no longer suffices for the validity of matrimony, ib.; assistance at the matrimony of a public sinner, 792; assistance at civil matrimony, 889.
Associations of workers, I 523.
Astrology is illicit, II 509.
Craftiness, insofar as it is opposed to prudence by excess, I 635.
Ecclesiastical asylum, what it is, II 549.
Attempted matrimony by clerics and religious is punished with excommunication, III 515 and 523, and with other penalties, 816; attempted matrimony with adultery is the diriment impediment of crime, 825.
Attention, what is necessary for prayer, II 354; controversy concerning the necessity of internal attention, 355; the doctrine of St. Thomas concerning the necessity of attention, 359; what attention is necessary in the minister of the sacraments, III 61; none is required for validly receiving a sacrament, 87. Cf. also Advertence.
Attrition, what it is, III 340; it cannot justify by itself, but the sacrament of penance actually received must be joined to it, 342; true attrition suffices in the sacrament of penance, 343; several older authors taught the contrary, ib.; attrition conceived from the fear of hell alone is morally good, provided that such fear is not servilely servile, 344; some initial love is always included in true attrition, 345.
Attritionists, who they are, III 345.
Public auction, see Sale by Auction.
Author, his dominion over the products of his intellect, II 8; how civil laws concerning this matter oblige, 9.
Fowling, see Hunting.
Daring, as it is a passion, I 82; as it is a vice opposed to fortitude, II 638.
Increase of infused virtues, I 475; of faith, 493.
Aureole of the saints, to whom it is given and what it is, II 624.
Driver, what he can do on feast days, II 497; whether he can transport someone to a brothel, I 619.
Dawn, around which it is licit to celebrate Mass, how it is to be understood, III 290.
Avarice, its notion, I 416; its malice, 417; its daughters, 418; remedies, 419; it is opposed to the virtue of liberality, II 616.
Unleavened bread is the only licit matter for consecrating the Eucharist in the Latin Church, III 171; when it is licit to employ leavened bread, ib.; the faithful of the Latin rite can licitly receive Communion in leavened bread, 214.
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Balm pertains necessarily to the matter of confirmation, III 154.
Bank, see Money-Changer's Table.
Marriage banns, what they are, III 724; their obligation, 725; in mixed marriages, ib.; time, 726; form, 727; place, 728; dispensation, 729; obligation of revealing impediments if the matrimony is announced, 730.
Baptism is required for the validity of all the sacraments, III 87; diverse names of baptism, 94; real definition, 95; when it was instituted by Christ, 96; it was not under precept until after Christ's Resurrection, ib.; divisions, 97; its valid, doubtful, and licit remote matter, 98 sq.; its proximate matter, 101 sq.; its form, 103; its effects, 106; its necessity, 114; effects of baptism of desire, 115; effects of baptism of blood, 116; ordinary minister of baptism, 119; extraordinary minister, 120; minister in necessity, 121; order to be observed among ministers in necessity, 122; subject of baptism, 124; conditions required in the subject, 125; baptism to be conferred upon infants of Catholic parents, 126; what delay is a grave sin, ib.; whether infants of heretics and unbelievers can be baptized, 127 sqq.; an infant in the maternal womb, 129; an abortive fetus, 131; what is to be observed in the baptism of adults, 133; ceremonies of baptism, 139 sqq.; place of baptism, 141; sponsors in baptism, 143; who are to be inscribed in the register of the baptized, 148 and 766; doubtful baptism is considered valid with respect to matrimony, 808.
Barbers, whether they can labor on feast days, II 497.
Beatitudes, what they are, I 455.
Beatitude of man, what it is and in what it consists, I 21 sqq.; how it can be obtained, 24.
War, what it is, II 129; what is required for a licit war, 130; obligations of private persons during war, ib.
Blessing of the baptismal font, III 100; of chrism, 154; of oil, 571; benediction with the Most Holy Sacrament, III 225; of utensils for Mass, 297; at the point of death it can and must be given to all who are capable of receiving at least extreme unction, 563; conditions required for someone validly to receive this blessing, ib.; the indulgence attached is acquired at the moment when death actually occurs, ib.; this blessing cannot be repeated during the same illness, ib.
Blessings, some are reserved to the Roman Pontiff, some to the parish priest, some to regulars, III 90.
Beneficed cleric, his obligations concerning benefice revenues, II 36; he is bound to restore the fruits of the benefice because of neglect of the Divine Office, 364; indeed, he can be deprived of his benefice, ib.; what calendar he must use, 369; how he can sometimes omit a founded daily Mass, III 260.
Ecclesiastical benefice with which perpetual burdens of Masses are joined, III 259; an excommunicated person is incapable of obtaining benefices, 505; title of benefice in ordination, 607; how an unjust collator of benefices sins and is obliged to restitution, II 99.
- benefit of inventory, II 278.
Good pleasure: jurisdiction granted at good pleasure expires with the death of the one granting it, III 412; apostolic good pleasure for alienating goods, 525.
Bestiality, what it is, II 707.
To kiss a non-Catholic Bible, I 526.
Bookseller, whether he can sell depraved books, I 623; he cannot receive and give Mass stipends and deliver books in their place, III 273.
Use of a bicycle for carrying Viaticum, III 224.
Bigamy as an irregularity, III 617; simultaneous bigamy in the New Testament is prohibited to all, even unbelievers, 660.
The two-month period formerly granted to spouses before the use of matrimony seems to have been abolished in the new law, III 666.
Bination of Mass can be made either by common law or by pontifical indult, III 286; by common law it is not licit to celebrate twice except on days of precept, and indeed for this purpose, that a notable part of the people may be able to hear Mass, ib.; what constitutes a notable part of the people, ib.; in two cases bination is not only licit but also necessary, 287; even if several priests celebrate Mass in the same church or place, the local Ordinary can permit bination, 288; a priest celebrating twice may not accept a stipend for the other Mass nor satisfy an obligation of justice, unless, however, there is a special permission or special labor joined to it, ib.; rite to be observed in bination, 289.
Blasphemy, what it is, II 529; of how many kinds it is, 530; its malice, 531; practical rules for discerning blasphemy, 532; remedies against it, 533; blasphemy insofar as it is opposed to the profession of faith, I 520.
Various goods: their kinds, II 12; whether in extreme necessity it is licit to take great goods belonging to another, 87; whether it is licit to kill a thief in order to recover goods of great value, 120; the goods of private persons are inviolable in war, 47; for the goods of wives, children of families, and clerics, see Dominion.
ecclesiastical, what they are, II 36 and III 512; how they are to be administered, II 38; those usurping and sequestering them can incur several censures, III 512, 518; those alienating ecclesiastical goods without the legitimate formalities incur excommunication, 525.
of matrimony, III 684; their notable injury is a grave sin, 685.
Good faith, see Prescription, Possessor.
Breviary, see Divine Office.
Stock-exchange speculations, how they are licit, II 322.
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Cremation of corpses, see Cremation.
A blind person is irregular, III 616; blindness of mind is a sad effect of lust, I 420.
Priests with failing sight with regard to Mass, III 284.
Celibacy obliges major clerics in the Latin Church by ecclesiastical law, III 812; unless, however, the subdiaconate was received before puberty, or from grave fear, or with ignorance of the attached celibacy, 814; with celibacy there is also attached a vow of perfect chastity, so that any sin of lust whatsoever, even internal, committed by a cleric assumes the character of sacrilege, 813; how dispensation from celibacy can be given, 815; penalties against violators of celibacy, ib.; celibacy is a diriment impediment of matrimony, 811.
Ceremonies in administering the sacraments, how they oblige, III 70; omitted ceremonies of baptism, 140; of confirmation, 162; how the ceremonies prescribed in Mass oblige, 302 sqq.; how they oblige in the sacrament of penance, 329; in extreme unction, 584; in matrimony, 770.
Caesarean operation, whether it ought sometimes to be performed, III 130 sqq.
Calendar to be followed in recitation of the Divine Office, II 369.
Chalice to be employed in Mass, of what material it is to be, III 299; how it loses its consecration, ib.; to be touched in the ordination of a subdeacon and priest, 594 sqq.
Calumny, what it is, II 188; its malice, 189 sq.; obligations of the calumniator, 197; calumnious denunciation, III 468 and 513.
Exchange, what it is, II 291.
Burning chamber, Mass to be celebrated in it, III 293.
To ring bells, how this is to be done in the ordination of a porter, III 592.
Candles: two lighted candles are required for saying Mass, III 297; to celebrate Mass with one candle is a venial sin, but to celebrate without any candle is a grave sin, ib.; whether the candles must necessarily be made of wax, ib.
Canon of the Mass: every notable change in it is a grave sin, III 304; after the Canon has already begun, it is not licit to consecrate hosts brought forward unless a grave cause is present, 176.
Canons, their obligation of reciting the Divine Office in choir, II 366; when they lose the "daily distributions," ib.; they are excommunicated if they commit simony in offices, benefices, or dignities, III 514; if they remove some document of the episcopal curia, 520.
Privilege of the canon, violated, II 541 and III 506, 511, and 523.
Becoming chant greatly serves divine worship in ecclesiastical functions, II 464; whether chant in heretical churches can be performed by Catholics, I 526; whether it is licit to employ heterodox singers in our churches, 524.
Military chaplains, see Military Persons.
Chaplaincy, see Benefice.
Capital vices, I 406.
Chapter, how it is punished when it appeals to a future general council, III 509.
Sect of the Carbonari is prohibited under excommunication, III 516.
Prison, whether it is licit to break it, deceive the guard, and flee from it, II 164. Cf. also Defendant.
Cardinals have the privilege of a private oratory, III 295; they can absolve from all sins and censures which are not reserved to the Supreme Pontiff in a most special manner, 425 and 494; they can enter the enclosure of nuns, 517; they can grant indulgences, 549; those who pursue them in a hostile manner incur excommunication, 509.
Charity, what it is, I 551 sq.; as 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 all 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 persons to be loved, 579; with respect to goods to be loved, 583; works of charity, 587 sqq.; sins against charity of neighbor, 604 sqq.
Carnal motions, II 690.
Meat forbidden on days of fasting and abstinence, II 663; when it is licit to eat meat several times on fast days, 654; what is grave matter in the prohibited eating of meat, 663; who are dispensed for eating meat, 664.
Executioners are irregular, III 619.
Chastity is a special virtue, II 674; distinctions, 675; excellence and utility of chastity, 676; the opposed vice, namely, lust, 680 sqq.; a vow of chastity is reserved, II 423; when it is an impedient or diriment impediment of matrimony, III 778 sqq., 816.
Castration of boys, whether it is licit, II 116; whether it induces the impediment of impotence, III 798.
Castrensian goods of children, II 27; whether military parish priests must apply Mass for the people, III 254; whether they have ordinary jurisdiction, 410; their rights concerning assistance at matrimony, 758.
Casuistic moral theology, what it is and how it is to be employed, I 9.
Chasuble of a priest saying Mass cannot be made of cotton, linen, or wool, III 298; the prescribed color obliges only under venial sin, ib.; one made of cloth of gold can serve for the colors white, green, and red, ib.; to say Mass without a chasuble is considered a grave sin, ib.; how a chasuble loses its blessing, 301.
Perplexing case, what it is and how it is to be resolved, III 731.
reserved cases, see Reservation of Cases.
more urgent cases, what they are, III 425; in them any confessor can absolve from all sins and censures and dispense from an irregularity incurred from the violation of a censure, ib. and 494; dispensation from matrimonial impediments, 857 sq.
Innkeeper, his cooperation in drunkenness, in eating forbidden foods, in depraved gatherings, etc., I 622.
Cause exempting and excusing from law, see Excuse and Exemption.
- pious in a testament, II 277.
Causality of the sacraments, whether it is physical or moral, III 37.
Safeguard: absolution from censures as a safeguard, III 491; safeguards required in mixed marriages and marriages of disparity of worship, 788, 809.
Caution, as it is an integral part of prudence, I 631.
Ecclesiastical censure, what it is, III 475; the name censure is taken in diverse ways, ib.; it is essentially a medicinal penalty, ib.; divisions, 476; power of imposing censures, 477; conditions required in imposing censures, 480; subject of censure, that is, those who can be punished with censure, 481; object of censure, that is, the qualities required for an act to be punishable by censure, 484; causes excusing from incurring a censure, 486; causes excusing from the effect of a censure, 489; absolution from censures, 490; diverse modes of absolution, 491; who can absolve, 492; conditions required for absolving, 495; rite of absolution, 497.
Census contract, what it is, II 313.
Evening collation (cenula) permitted on fast days, II 656; quantity and quality of foods, ib.; on certain vigils a larger evening collation is permitted, ib.
Candles necessary for celebrating Mass, see Candles.
Certitude, what it is and of how many kinds, I 324 sqq.; what kind is required for acting licitly, 326 sqq.; how that certitude is to be obtained when doubt exists, 331 sqq.
Cessation from divine services, what it is, III 529; it is not properly called a censure, ib.
of law, I 234 sqq.; of custom, 282; of a vow, II 409 sqq.; of jurisdiction, III 412; of matrimonial impediments, 852.
from labor, see Strike.
Cession of goods, what it is, II 244; it is judicial or extrajudicial, ib.; of itself it does not extinguish the obligation of restitution, 247; manner of this restitution, 232, 236.
Sacramental character is imprinted in three sacraments, III 45; nature and qualities of the sacramental character, 46; it is not effaced either in this life or in the next, ib.; function of the character in the individual sacraments, ib.; baptismal character, 108; character of confirmation, 153.
Surgical operation performed by clerics or laypersons, when it induces irregularity, III 622; when it is to be performed upon a mother to save the soul of the fetus, see Caesarean Section; whether it must be undergone to save life, I 567.
Chloroform, see Narcotic Remedies.
Choral recitation of the Divine Office imposed upon canons, II 366; upon certain regulars, 367; concerning the due order, place, position, and time, 371; the integrity of the Office is not at all injured if someone sings alternately in choir or is occupied with necessary offices of the choir, 374.
Dances, when they are illicit, I 615; II 697.
Chrism, its qualities, so that it may be the matter of confirmation, III 154.
Ciborium, see Pyx.
Cincture for a priest saying Mass is more fittingly made of white linen, but neither another material nor another color is prohibited, III 298; how it loses its blessing, 301.
Circumcision: in circumcision grace was conferred, III 4, and original sin was effaced, 27; it cannot now be employed licitly as a religious ceremony, I 526, but only for the sake of health, ib.
Circumspection, as it is an integral part of prudence, I 631.
Circumstances are sometimes a source of morality, I 116; their number, 115; division, 120; if they change the species, whether moral or theological, of a sin, they are to be accused in confession, III 369; accidentally, notably aggravating circumstances are also to be accused, 370, but not of themselves, ib.; how one is to proceed in practice, 371.
Civil matrimony, what it is and how it is divided, III 885; it produces no canonical effects, 886; it induces the impediment of public propriety, 888; affinity arising from it, its offspring is illegitimate, it induces the impediment of crime, and persons living in such a matrimony are considered public sinners, ib.; major clerics attempting and consummating civil matrimony become irregular, ib.; the faithful about to marry can for a reasonable cause observe the statutes of civil matrimony, provided that the intention of thereby celebrating the matrimony itself is excluded, 887; whether the civil magistrate can assist at civil matrimony, 889; civil divorce, see Civil Divorce.
Civil law, what obligation it induces, I 285; its object, 287; civil law concerning taxes to be paid, 288 sqq.; concerning military service to be performed, 295 sqq.
Clandestine marriages were rendered invalid by the Council of Trent, III 753.
Religious enclosure, its violation is punished with censure, III 517.
Key of the tabernacle, by whom it is to be kept, III 226; in the ordination of a porter, 592.
Clemency is indeed akin to meekness, but is not the same, II 710; to it are opposed cruelty by excess and excessive leniency by defect, ib.
Cleric, concerning the exercise of dominion, II 36 sqq.; he incurs suspension if he has presumed to receive orders from one excommunicated, suspended, interdicted, or a notorious heretic or schismatic, III 534 (6); clerics simoniacally giving or receiving ordination or other sacraments incur the same penalty, ib.; likewise major clerics deceitfully making religious profession, ib.; those who illicitly practice the surgical art are irregular, 621; concerning the office of sponsor, 146; penalties against major clerics attempting matrimony, 815; privileges of clerics: of canon, forum, and immunity, II 541 sqq.
Coercion to burial in a sacred place, III 524; to the clerical or religious state, 526; see also Violence, Force.
Small spoon for pouring water into the wine to be consecrated is permitted, but is not blessed, III 299; for giving Viaticum, 217.
Codicil of a testament, what it is, II 275.
Cemetery, when it is polluted, II 545 sq.; Mass can be said in its chapels, 482.
Thursday of the Lord's Supper, with regard to Mass, III 281.
Coenula, see Evening Collation (cenula).
Thoughts about an evil thing, see Morose Delectation.
Legal relationship, see Adoption.
natural, see Consanguinity.
spiritual, see Spiritual Relationship.
Cohabitation of spouses, what it includes and how it is necessary, III 677; when cohabitation as brother and sister can be permitted to spouses, 875.
Evening collation (collatio vespertina), see Evening Collation (cenula).
Collection of indulgences, III 557.
Collision of obligations, I 236.
Lustful conversations, what kind of sin they are, II 696.
Color of vestments is indeed to be observed according to the diverse offices and feasts, but it does not oblige under grave sin, III 298.
Colorable title, what it is, II 61; it suffices for legitimate prescription, ib.
Wig may indeed be worn by a priest carrying the Eucharist, III 224, but not during the celebration of Mass, 298.
Courtesy is the same as the virtue of affability, II 612.
Public elections, see Deputies.
Solemn Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, three Masses, III 285.
Commixture as a title of acquiring dominion, II 56.
Commodatum is a gratuitous contract, II 283.
Residence: what is required to obtain a quasi-domicile, I 193; for obtaining testimonial letters for one to be ordained, III 597; for matrimonial banns, 728; for the licit celebration of matrimony, 767.
Communication with heretics and infidels is one thing civil, another religious, I 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.; communication in a criminal delict with one excommunicated by name by the Pope is punished with excommunication, III 519; clerics knowingly and spontaneously communicating in divine services with persons excommunicated by name by the Roman Pontiff are punished with excommunication, ib.
Holy Communion is one thing spiritual, another sacramental, III 190; for licitly receiving Communion there is required on the part of the soul freedom from certain censures, from every mortal sin, and finally actual devotion, 191 sqq.; contrition does not suffice, but confession is required if one conscious of mortal sin and having access to a confessor wishes to receive Communion, 192; Holy Communion can sometimes be given to the sick who are not fasting, 203; when First Communion is to be received, 211; Easter Communion, 212; to defer Communion without cause beyond the Easter season is a grave sin, ib.; the season can be prolonged by the parish priest or confessor for an individual person, ib.; Communion under both species, 214; what frequent Communion is and what rules are to be observed concerning it, 215; what is necessary for receiving daily Communion, ib.; Communion can be distributed even in private oratories, 219; it can be distributed at all hours of the day, but not of the night, 221; whether it is licit to distribute it on Good Friday, ib.; on the night of the Nativity, ib.; wherever it is licit to say Mass, there it is also licit to distribute Communion, 222; prayers to be said after the distribution of Communion, 223; whether it is licit to distribute Communion with fingers other than the index finger and thumb, ib.; Communion prescribed for gaining indulgences, 554; in extreme necessity even a layman can administer Communion, 40.
Modification of a last will, II 279; by whom commutation of a vow can be made, 430; commutation of an oath, 454; of sacramental satisfaction, III 404; of works prescribed in a jubilee, 561.
Occult compensation, what it is and when it is lawful, II 88 sq.; when compensation is a cause excusing from restitution, 241; the system of compensation as a moral system, I 344, 351.
Accomplice cannot be disclosed in confession except for a grave cause, III 381; a confessor who directly inquires into the name of an accomplice sins gravely, ib. and 382; a confessor can, however, inquire into necessary circumstances of sins, even if by accident he then obtains knowledge of the accomplice, ib.; absolution of one's own accomplice in a shameful sin is not only gravely illicit, but also invalid, 454; what conditions are required for the penalties against those absolving an accomplice to be incurred, ib.; it is required that a grave sin of lust have been committed, 455; that formal complicity be present, 456; that true or at least feigned absolution be present, 457; exceptions from the censure, 458; how one can be absolved from the censure incurred, 459.
Componenda, what it is in matrimonial dispensations, III 868.
Composition granted by the Supreme Pontiff excuses from restitution, II 242.
General and particular councils, their legislative power, I 178.
Sacred Congregation of the Council, I 170.
Preacher existing in the state of mortal sin who gives a sacred sermon does not sin mortally, III 59; whether it is an obligation to attend a sermon, II 470.
Concubinage, its malice, II 698; as an impediment of matrimony, III 845.
Concupiscence is taken either as passion in general or as a special passion, namely desire, I 71, 76; antecedent concupiscence increases the voluntary, but lessens the free, 89.
Competitive examination for obtaining an ecclesiastical benefice, what right it bestows and how violation of that right induces an obligation of restitution, II 99.
Condition appended in the administration of the sacraments, III 23; see also the individual sacraments; liceity and origin of the conditional form, 24 sq.; matrimony contracted under a condition, 737 sqq.; servile condition insofar as it is an impediment of ordination, 623, and of matrimony, 744; how a contract entered under a suspensive, resolutory, or shameful condition obliges, II 261 and 253.
Express or tacit remission by the creditor excuses from making restitution, II 241; remission of an offense, see Reconciliation; condonation of adultery committed, III 679.
Confessor: his necessary qualities, namely, knowledge, prudence, and virtue, III 432; with what knowledge he ought to be furnished, ib.; by what means the necessary knowledge is acquired, ib.; prudence, 433; Christian virtues, 434; qualities of a confessor of religious women, 417; the office of the confessor in the act of confession is: a) to judge correctly both concerning sins heard and concerning absolution to be given or refused, 435; b) to teach and admonish the penitent, 436; c) to dispose the penitent to true contrition and amendment, 437; d) to give, deny, or defer absolution, 438; after confession the confessor is bound to correct defects and errors perhaps committed, 439, and to preserve the sacramental seal, 443 sqq.; a confessor can sometimes take upon himself part of the satisfaction to be performed by the penitent, 397; how a confessor can commute the satisfaction imposed upon the penitent, 404; when a confessor is bound to repair damage which he caused by erring in confession, II 110, III 442; restitution made through the assistance of the confessor, II 239.
Confession, insofar as it is the proximate matter of the sacrament of penance, what it is, III 358; what things are required for its essence, ib.; necessity of confession from divine law, 359; its utility and fittingness, ib.; necessity from ecclesiastical law, ib.; the time at which the precept of confession obliges, 360; the subject of this precept, 361; its object, 362; penalties inflicted upon transgressors of this precept, ib.; one who has only venial sins is not strictly bound to annual confession, 361; qualities of confession, 363 sqq.; what kind of sin it is to lie in confession, 364; integrity of confession, 366 sqq., see also Integrity; examination of conscience before confession, 383 sqq.; repetition of confession, or general confession, 386; when it is necessary, useful, or harmful, 388; method to be observed in it, 389; confession required for gaining indulgences, 553; before matrimony, 658; how many sins a confessor existing in the state of mortal sin commits when he hears several confessions, I 380; whether confession can be instituted during a Mass which must be heard from precept, II 481; confession made to a layman is not a sacrament, III 405; when confession must by all means precede Communion, 192; a priest who celebrated Mass with contrition alone must confess as soon as possible, that is, within three days, 194; a non-priest hearing confession is excommunicated, 512.
Confirmation: its diverse names, III 149; its definition, 150; existence of this sacrament, 151; when this sacrament was instituted, 152; its effects, 153; it imprints a special character, ib.; remote matter, 154; proximate matter, 155; form, 157; the ordinary minister is a bishop, 158; the extraordinary minister is a priest duly delegated, 159; subject of confirmation, 160; whether there is a grave obligation of receiving confirmation, 161; ceremonies in confirmation, 162; sponsor, 163; notation of confirmation, 164; whether it is required under grave sin that a cleric to be ordained have been confirmed, 604; before matrimony, 723.
Roman Congregations, their offices and authority, I 167 sqq.; their decisions in matters of faith, 519.
Conjugal debt, what it is, III 690; its liceity, ib.; general rule: the conjugal act is licit when it serves the spiritual good of the spouses, even though generation is neither directly had nor intended, ib.; the circumstance of sacred time, pregnancy, nursing, and menstruation, 691; the conjugal act is illicit when it is performed either for pleasure alone, or with grave danger to health, or in an onanistic manner, or with scandal, 692; not only is the conjugal act itself licit, but also all those things which are necessary or useful for perfecting this act, 693; the conjugal debt of itself obliges under grave sin, 694; when this obligation ceases, 695 sqq.; sins of spouses with regard to chastity, 698. See also Onanism.
Spouse, see Wife, Husband, Woman.
Connection of virtues, what it is and what kind it is, I 464 sqq.
Canopy before the tabernacle, III 226.
Consanguinity insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 831; manner of computing degrees, ib.; divisions, 832; multiple consanguinity, 833; a suitable method of finding the degree, 834; origin of this impediment, 835; its extent, 836; its fittingness, 837; its cessation, 838.
Conscience: its diverse acceptations, I 301; its difference from synderesis, moral science, prudence, and natural law, 302; 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.; a timorous conscience in accusing doubtful sins, III 376; examination of conscience before confession, 383; remorse of conscience caused by sin, I 392.
Conscription of soldiers, I 297.
Consecration of an altar, III 296.
of a baptismal font, III 100.
of chrism must be performed by a bishop; whether it can be performed by a simple priest by delegation, 154.
of the Eucharist, 178; errors concerning this matter, 179; whether consecration can be effected through the epiclesis, ib.; when it is to be repeated, 20; in the consecration the lid of the pyx is to be removed, 176; consecration of the Eucharist can never be performed licitly, and probably not even validly, outside Mass, 176; whether the consecration of hosts left outside the corporal is valid, 177; in the consecration of both species consists the essence of the Mass, 229.
of the oil of the sick must be performed by a bishop, or by a priest duly delegated, 571.
Consent of the legislator required for introducing legitimate custom, I 278; consent required for mortal sin, 366; signs of imperfect consent, ib.; consent as an unjust cause of damage, II 105; consent required in contracts and its qualities and defects, 255 sqq.; consent required in betrothals, III 708; in matrimony, 732 sqq.; qualities of this marital consent, ib.; its defects, 741 sqq.
Evangelical counsels, what they are, I 162; gift of counsel, 450.
Counsel, as a gift, I 450; as a cause of restitution, II 102.
Consistorial Congregation, I 168.
Associations of workers, how they are to be fostered, II 5.
Constancy as a special virtue which is almost similar to perseverance, II 637.
Habitual sinner, who he is, III 452; when he can be absolved, ib.
Custom, what it is, I 272; of how many kinds it is, 274; conditions required for legitimate custom, 276 sqq.; effects of legitimate custom, 279 sqq.; its cessation, 282; a reasonable custom of saying Mass before dawn, III 290; a custom of sinning must sometimes be manifested in confession, 370.
One counseling unjust damage, how he is obliged to restitution, II 102; whether it is lawful to counsel a lesser evil, 103; what obligation is induced by evil counsel which has indeed been revoked, but ineffectively, ib.; one counseling certain crimes is punished with a censure, see Censure.
Consumable things, what they are, II 12.
Contagion: when danger of contagion excuses from administering the sacraments, III 73; from the material integrity of confession, 380; from rendering the conjugal debt, 692; when such danger renders licit the administration of extreme unction by means of an instrument, 575.
Contemplation, insofar as it is distinct from meditation, II 336.
Formal contempt of law, I 207; of a precept or of one commanding, II 579 and I 371.
Contention, what kind of sin it is, I 414.
Continence, how it is related to temperance, II 708.
Contract, what it is, II 249; of how many kinds it is, 250; whether statutes of civil law concerning contracts oblige in conscience, 251; conditions required for a contract, 252 sqq.; how a shameful contract obliges in conscience, 253; persons capable of contracting, 254; legitimate consent, 255; error and fraud in a contract, 257; force and fear, 258 and I 71; external form of contracts, II 259; a contract under a condition, 261; under a mode, 262; under a day, 263; under a demonstration, 264; an oath added to a contract, 265; gratuitous contracts, 267 sqq.; onerous contracts, 290 sqq.; aleatory contracts, 313 sqq.
Contrition, generically taken, what it is, III 339; it includes three acts, namely, sorrow, detestation, and purpose, ib.; contrition is divided into perfect, or contrition strictly so called, and imperfect, or attrition, 340; contrition strictly so called arises from a motive of perfect charity, that is, from the love of benevolence, ib.; whether a motive of the love of hope also suffices, ib.; the effect of contrition is the remission of all sins, provided that the desire for the sacrament of penance is added, 341; it is not required that contrition be in the highest degree, ib.; contrition generically taken (insofar as it includes attrition) must have the following qualities: it must be true and formal, 346; supernatural, 347; appreciatively (not intensively) supreme, 348; universal, 349; it is not required that sorrow be sensible, nor that it be elicited for a long time, 348; it must be manifested by a sensible sign, 350; it must be elicited before confession or at least before absolution, ib.; it must have some ordering toward receiving absolution, 351; it is not necessarily, but laudably, to be elicited anew when the penitent immediately after absolution confesses a mortal sin omitted through forgetfulness, 352.
Contritionists, what they are, III 345.
Contumacy in censures, of how many kinds it is and what it is, III 484; what contumacy is required for incurring a censure, ib. and 485.
Contumely, what it is, II 183; its malice, 184; when contumely is to be patiently tolerated, 186.
- against God, see Blasphemy.
Convalidation of an invalid matrimony through renewal of consent, III 876; how this consent is to be renewed, ib.; through a simple dispensation, 877; through radical sanation, 878.
Conventional penalty, see Penalty; conventional price, see Price.
Abusive speech, what it is, II 183.
Resident students: pupils of religious can receive Viaticum from their own religious superiors, III 219; likewise extreme unction, 583; likewise sacramental absolution from their own religious confessors not approved by the bishop of the place, 410; it is not expedient that superiors of a college hear the confessions of the pupils, 416.
Cooperation in sin, in how many ways it can happen, I 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; how positive and negative cooperation in unjust damage obliges to restitution, II 100 sqq.
Access to a confessor, what it is, III 192.
Conjugal intercourse, see Conjugal Debt.
Cook, what labors he can perform on feast days, II 496.
Puncturing of the heart is not to be done after death which is perhaps doubtful, II 132.
Corporal to be placed under the chalice must be made of linen or hemp, III 299; one who, outside a case of great necessity, celebrates without a corporal or without a blessed corporal sins gravely, ib.; how a corporal loses its blessing, 301; whether Eucharistic species left outside the corporal through inadvertence are consecrated, 177.
One's own body is to be loved with true charity, I 567; sins against this charity, 568; cleanliness of body is required in receiving the Eucharist, III 197; what this cleanliness includes, ib.; a defect of body can induce irregularity, 616.
Fraternal correction, what it is and how it differs from paternal and judicial correction, I 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 words in the recitation of the Divine Office, II 374; what corruption in the form of the sacraments is judged substantial and what accidental, III 13 sq.; corruption of officials in defrauding taxes, I 294; in breaking out of prison, 301.
Craniotomy, what it is, II 133; it is gravely illicit, 134; whether physicians can be left in good faith concerning its morality, 136; whether it is to be equated with abortion as regards ecclesiastical penalties, 143.
Crass ignorance, see Ignorance.
To believe, see Faith.
Excessive credulity, I 509.
Cremation of corpses is forbidden, III 503; societies for promoting it are prohibited, 516; Catholics who call in an acatholic minister in the cremation of a corpse are suspected of heresy, I 526, 4(c).
Crime: undue disclosure of a hidden crime is the sin of defamation, II 187; not even a notorious crime may be disclosed without sufficient reason, 192; insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, it arises in four cases, III 823; multiplication of this impediment, 828; its cessation, 829; ignorance does not excuse from it, 830; it does not bind the non-baptized, 829.
- criminal, communication in which is punished with excommunication, III 519; what crimes induce irregularity, III 620 sqq.
Crosses consecrated in the walls of a church, if they are scraped away or fall out, do not thereby cause the church to lose its consecration, III 294.
Image of the Crucifix upon the altar must stand out among the candles, III 297.
Cruelty is a vice opposed to the virtue of clemency, II 710; cruelty toward animals, 14.
Bloody punishment (killing), to whom it is lawful, II 118; bloody defense against an unjust aggressor of life, 120; of fortune, 121; of chastity, 122; of reputation, 123.
Cross of Christ, whether it is to be adored, II 386; positive precepts concerning the worship of the Cross of Christ, ib.
Theological and juridical fault in damage, II 92 sqq.
Worship of God is the object of the virtue of religion, II 325; what the worship of latria, hyperdulia, and dulia is, 384; to whom they are to be shown, 385 sqq.; worship to be shown to the Cross, 386; to images and relics, 387; whether it is licit to be present at acatholic worship, I 526 sq.; disparity of worship insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 806.
Curiosity is opposed to the virtue of studiousness and is of itself a venial sin, II 716.
Keepers of tolls, forests, fields, etc., how they are bound to repair damage if they do not denounce those causing damage, II 110.
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Demon, see Devil.
Condemned theses, see Propositions.
Unjust damage, what it is, II 91; its divisions, 92; when an obligation of restitution arises from it, 93; whether damage committed with slight theological fault induces an obligation of restitution, 97; if juridical fault alone is present, 98; obligations arising from cooperation in damage, 100, 223 sqq.; from doubtful damage, 226.
Emergent damage is a title for receiving interest, II 287.
Contracted debts, whether they can be extinguished by prescription with negative good faith, II 62; whether they are extinguished by cession of goods, 247; in what order they are to be paid, 236.
Debt, conjugal, see Conjugal Debt.
Decalogue contains the secondary principles of the natural law, I 154; how it must be known by all, 501.
Ecclesiastical tithes are legitimately to be paid, II 499; those defrauding them commit a sin both against religion and against justice, ib.
Declaration, see Interpretation.
of the death of a spouse for entering a new matrimony, III 804.
of the nullity of matrimony, III 875.
Natural defects, whether manifesting them is defamation, II 191; whether it is a violation of the sacramental seal, III 444; defects of a thing to be sold which must be manifested, II 292; when and how defects committed by a confessor are to be corrected, III 439; defect of speech or lack of time excuses from the material integrity of confession, 379; defects constituting irregularity, III 614 sqq.
Those defending prohibited books, III 508.
Defloration of a virgin, see Stuprum.
Defrauding of taxes, I 294, II 499; of military service, I 300; of the fare of a public vehicle, II 85.
The deceased, to injure their reputation is detraction, II 194; when the Office of the Dead is to be recited, 361. See also Souls in Purgatory.
Degradation of clerics, III 472.
Carrying the Eucharist to the sick, III 224.
Delectation, insofar as it is a passion, I 78; morose delectation, what it is, 395; its moral character, 396; specific malice, 397; distinctive criteria, 398; venereal delectation, what it is, II 681; directly willed is a mortal sin in its whole genus, 682; indirectly willed admits slightness of matter, 683; how venereal delectation is specified, 686; what resistance is necessary, 687.
Delegation of a deacon for solemnly baptizing, III 121; or for distributing the Eucharist, 217; delegation of a priest for administering confirmation, 159; for hearing confessions, 411; delegation for assisting at betrothals is not possible, 714; for assisting at matrimony, 760; for imposing and absolving censures, 479, 494; for conferring orders, 597.
Delict, how it is understood in canon law, III 470; it is distinguished as occult, public, or notorious, ib.
Diminution of weight or measure causing an obligation of restitution, II 294.
To deny the sacraments, when it is necessary, III 75 sqq.
Uncovering of a woman's breast, scandalous, I 613.
Denunciation of a sinner, when it must be made with fraternal correction omitted, I 602; denunciation of a soliciting confessor, III 464; causes excusing from it, 465; manner of denouncing, 466; those neglecting this denunciation incur excommunication, 464, 525; those denouncing calumniously, 468; denunciation of matrimonial impediments after the marriage banns, 730; causes excusing from this denunciation, ib.; what judicial and evangelical denunciation is, II 159.
Deposition of clerics, III 472.
Deposit is a gratuitous contract, II 283; obligations of the depositary, ib.; what the deposit of faith is, I 485.
Deputies, whether the election of an evil deputy induces an obligation of repairing damage, II 105, 603; how deputies themselves who enact depraved laws are bound to restore damage thence arising, ib.; whether for a most grave cause it is lawful to elect an evil deputy, 604.
Abandoned things, what they are and to whom they belong, II 39 sqq.
Derogation of a law, what it is and how it occurs, I 270.
Deserter from military service, how he sins, I 300; II 452.
Desire, insofar as it is a passion, I 76; desire of an evil thing: its morality, 403; whether it is licit to desire an evil on account of a good effect, 405; desire for death, sometimes licit, sometimes illicit, II 117; lustful desire, its specific malice, 688.
Slothfulness, see Acedia.
Desperation, what it is as a passion, I 81; as a vice against theological hope, 548; its malice, ib.; its causes, ib.; its remedies, ib.
Desuetude abrogating a law, I 281.
Detainers of ecclesiastical goods incur excommunication, III 512 and 518. See also Ecclesiastical Goods.
Determination of the matter to be consecrated in the Eucharist, III 175; in the application of the Mass, 247.
Detestation, how it is related to sorrow in contrition, III 339.
Detraction, what it is, II 188; its malice, 189; hearing it, 191; its reparation, 196 sq.
Devotion: its diverse acceptations, II 328; insofar as it is an act of the virtue of religion, ib.; causes of devotion, 329; its effects, 330; devotion required of one receiving the Eucharist, III 195.
The devil cannot properly pray, II 334; how he is to be treated in exorcism, 463; how he intervenes in superstition, 501; in spiritism, 524; in divination, 506; he cannot certainly know contingent future things or the secrets of hearts, ib.; he is not the direct and sufficient cause of sins, I 384, 386.
Deacon existing in the state of mortal sin probably does not sin gravely if he carries the Most Holy Eucharist or ministers in a solemn Mass, III 59; he can be delegated for solemnly administering baptism, 121; for distributing the Eucharist, 217; generally he cannot give any blessing unless he has a special license from the bishop, 90; he must wear a stole when receiving Holy Communion, 196; he is probably not irregular if he solemnly baptizes or distributes Communion without delegation, 121 and 217; what power he receives in his ordination, 590; matter and form of the diaconate, 593; required age, 605; knowledge, 606.
Newspapers, see Periodicals.
Defamation, what it is, II 187; divisions, 188; its malice, 189; rules for judging the gravity of defamation, 191; those cooperating in defamation, 195; obligations of the defamer, 196; causes excusing from the reparation of reputation, 198.
Delay of an act of faith, hope, or charity, see the individual virtues; delay of restitution, how it is sinful, II 237; delay in fulfilling a vow, 406; what kind of sin the delay of the baptism of infants is, III 126; of the baptism of adults, 134; of a Mass owed from a stipend, 266; of the fulfillment of sacramental satisfaction, 402; when delay of absolution is either expedient or necessary, 438; when delay of matrimony after the banns have been completed requires new banns, 735; whether undue delay of matrimony is a sufficient cause for dissolving betrothals, 729.
Love, see Charity.
Dimissorial letters, what they are, III 597; for whom they are necessary, ib.; penalties inflicted upon a bishop who confers orders upon the subject of another without dimissorial letters, 534; dimissorial letters illegitimately granted while the see is vacant, 537.
Disciple, his obligations toward his teacher, II 598; his specific sins, ib.
Discord, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, I 414; insofar as it injures charity toward one's neighbor, 604.
Disparity of worship, insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 806.
Dispensation, what it is and how it differs from epikeia, permission, declaration, and privilege, I 238; divisions, 239; author of a dispensation, 240: the Supreme Pontiff, 241; a bishop, 242; a religious superior, 243; a parish priest, 244; regular confessors, 245; subject receiving a dispensation (travelers, exempt religious, the dispenser himself), 247; conditions required for a dispensation, 251 sqq.; defects of a dispensation, 255; its cessation, 259; its interpretation, 262.
from the observance of the Lord's day, II 498.
from the recitation of the Divine Office, II 380.
from a vow, II 420; vows which can be dispensed by the Supreme Pontiff alone, 424; by a bishop, 425; by regular confessors, 426.
in fasting and abstinence, II 664.
in matrimonial impediments, III 853 sqq.; granted by the Roman Curia, 856; by a bishop, 857 sqq.; by a simple priest, 859; causes required for a dispensation, 861 sqq.; manner of petitioning for a dispensation, 866 sqq.; manner of executing a dispensation, 871; defects of a dispensation and their sanation, 874; dispensation from the bond of a legitimate or ratified marriage, 665 sqq.
Disposition necessary for receiving the sacraments, III 86 sqq.; for the reviviscence of a sacrament, 43; disposition of soul and body for receiving Communion, 191 sqq.; for receiving sacramental absolution, 437 sq.
Disputation with heretics, I 526.
Dissent of parents, whether it is a sufficient cause for dissolving betrothals, III 728.
Dissimulation of the sacraments, when it is licit, III 84; dissimulation and concealment of the faith, I 507.
Venereal distillation, II 705.
Distinction of sins, specific, I 373; numerical, 376.
Voluntary distraction in prayer is a sin, II 354 sqq.; whether it destroys the essence of prayer, II 355; it does not prevent satisfaction by reciting the Office, II 356; it is probably a grave sin if it is admitted during the consecration in Mass, III 61.
Distribution of Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin, whether it is gravely sinful, III 59; when a deacon can distribute Communion, 217; various requirements for the licit distribution of Communion, 211 sqq.
Daily distributions of canons, when they are lost, II 366.
Divination, what it is, II 506; its divisions, 508; its moral malice, 512.
Primitive division of goods, how it was made, II 4.
Perfect divorce with respect to the bond cannot occur in a consummated Christian marriage, III 662 sqq.; it can occur in a consummated legitimate marriage, 670 sqq., but not by the civil power, 653; in a ratified marriage, 665; imperfect divorce, that is, with respect to bed and habitation, can occur from several causes, 677 sqq.; civil divorce: whether it is licit for spouses to petition for it, 892; for a judge to pronounce it, 893; for an advocate to plead for it, 894.
Disclosure of a notorious crime, how it is illicit, II 193.
Docility, insofar as it is an integral part of prudence, I 631.
Dogmas necessary to be known by necessity of means and of precept, I 495 sqq.
Sorrow in contrition, III 339; whether it is a more principal act than detestation, ib.; sorrow in contrition (or attrition) must be true and formal, 346; supernatural, 347; appreciatively, not intensively, supreme, 348; universal, 349; sensible sorrow is not necessarily required, 348. See Contrition and Attrition.
Fraud, how it vitiates a contract, II 257.
Domicile, what it is, I 193; what a quasi-domicile is, ib.; as a title of ordination, III 597; for marriage banns, 728; for the celebration of matrimony, 767.
The Lord's day is to be sanctified by a law not only ecclesiastical but also divine, II 465; who are bound by this law, 467; what is prescribed by this law, 469; utility of this precept when well observed, 471 sqq.
Dominion, what it is, II 3; its divisions, ib.; origin and licitness of private dominion, 4; enemies of private dominion, 5; how dominion belongs to man over the goods of body and soul, 6; over his own reputation, 7; over the products of his ingenuity and industry, 8; over another man, 11; subject of dominion, 13; dominion of spouses, 15 sqq.; dominion of children of families, 26 sqq.; dominion of clerics, 36; the diverse modes of acquiring dominion are either original or derivative, 39; derivative modes are either legal or conventional, ib.; conventional modes are contracts, ib.; legal modes are occupation, finding, accession, and prescription, ib. and sqq.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit: their notion and number, I 445 sqq.; their relation to the virtues, beatitudes, and fruits of the Holy Spirit, ib.
Donation, what it is, II 270; its divisions, ib.; what is required for the validity of a donation, 271; revocation, ib.; donation mortis causa, 272; donation by testament, see Testament; presumed donation, 280.
Betrothal gifts, when they are to be restored, III 709.
A deficient or inadequate dowry is a canonical cause for obtaining a matrimonial dispensation, III 862.
Doubt, what it is, I 328; of how many kinds it is, 329; how a practical doubt is to be resolved, 331 sqq.; whether a doubtful law binds, 333; in doubt, that for which the presumption stands is to be upheld, 334; in doubt, the condition of the possessor is better, 335; obligations of a possessor of doubtful good faith, II 221; of a doubtful damager, 148 and 226; doubt concerning the form or matter of the sacraments, see the individual sacraments; doubtful jurisdiction in sacramental absolution, III 414; whether doubtful sins are to be accused, 375; dispensation from a doubtful impediment in matrimony, 778, 858; doubt in faith, I 520.
Duel, what it is, II 124; academic duel, ib.; a duel undertaken by private authority is gravely illicit, 125; ecclesiastical penalties against dueling, 126; societies fostering dueling, 127; obligation of restitution arising from a duel, 128.
Dulia, what it is, II 383 sq.
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Drunkenness, what it is, II 669; its malice, 670; its remedies, 673.
The Church: as a temple, it loses its consecration and is polluted, II 545; as a society, it has the power of inflicting even material penalties, III 469; its power over the matrimony of Christians, 646 sqq.
Ecclesiastical goods, see Goods.
- ecclesiastical law, see Law.
Ectopic fetus, II 146.
Education of children, what obligations it imposes upon parents, II 589; how the education of one's own conscience is to be obtained, I 353 sqq.; education of offspring after the separation of spouses, III 683.
External effect of an action, whether it is to be accused in confession, III 374.
Disordered egoism is a certain sign of hysteria, I 96; it is a sin against love of oneself, 568.
Choice of a more perfect state is a sufficient cause for dissolving betrothals, III 720; what a more perfect state is, ib.
- election of an unworthy deputy, what kind of sin it is, II 603 sqq.
Electric light may not be employed in place of candles, but only for fittingly illuminating the church, III 227; when it is licit to employ it for the lamp before the Most Holy Sacrament, ib.
Electuaries do not break the ecclesiastical fast, II 662.
Almsgiving: its notion, I 588; its obligation, 589; when the precept of giving alms binds, 590; quantity of alms to be given, 595; who can give alms, 596; manner of giving alms, 597; almsgiving prescribed in a jubilee, III 560.
Emancipation of children of families, how it occurs, II 26; how the emancipation of women is licit, 594.
Embryo, with respect to baptism, III 131.
Embryotomy is illicit, II 133.
Purchase, see Sale.
Depraved periodicals: whether it is licit to sell them, I 623; to publish advertisements or articles in them, ib.; whether their reading is punished with excommunication, III 508.
Epikeia is adjoined either to legal justice or to a certain natural justice, II 617; the virtue of equity is the execution of the virtue of gnome, 619; when it is licit to employ epikeia in laws, I 231 sqq.; epikeia properly so called cannot be employed in the natural law, 156, nor in an invalidating law, 233.
Epileptics are irregular, III 615.
Episcopal cases, what they are and how they are absolved, III 427 sq.
Episcopate, whether it is an order essentially distinct from the presbyterate, III 587; what power it confers, 590; its matter and form, 594.
Bishop: his legislative power, I 179; his power of dispensing in laws, 242; in vows, II 425; in the observance of the Lord's day, 498; in fasting and abstinence, 664; he is the ordinary minister of confirmation, III 158; how often he must administer confirmation in his diocese, ib.; he is bound to apply Mass for the people (but a titular bishop is not), 256; he can indeed interpret the obligation of a founded Mass, but he cannot remit or reduce it, 261; he has the privilege of a private oratory, 295; he has ordinary jurisdiction in his diocese, 409; he can absolve from some papal cases, 425; he can reserve to himself cases to be absolved, 427; how he must receive and treat a denunciation of a soliciting priest, 466; conditions required for licitly administering the sacrament of order, 597 sqq.; a bishop's faculty of dispensing in irregularities, 613; in certain matrimonial impediments, 857 sqq.
To read another's letter unlawfully, what kind of sin it is, II 181.
Error, what it is, I 39; how it influences the voluntary and the morality of an act, 45 sqq.; error in a dispensation, 256; how an erroneous conscience binds, 307 sqq.; pertinacious error in faith is heresy, 514; damage committed through error, II 96; how substantial and accidental error affect the validity of a contract, 257; how they affect the validity of a vow, 396; the validity of an oath, 453; an error in the recitation of the Office is corrected where it is discovered, 370; common error suffices for the Church to supply jurisdiction, III 413; how an error committed by a confessor is to be corrected, 439 sqq.; error vitiating matrimonial consent, 741 sqq.
Foodstuffs in petty domestic thefts, when they constitute grave matter, II 83.
Eubulia, insofar as it is a potential part of prudence, I 633.
The Most Holy Eucharist: its diverse names, III 156; definition of the Eucharist considered in fieri, in facto esse, and in use, 166; it has a threefold signification, 167; it produces grace in the very reception, ib.; it is a true sacrament instituted by Christ, 168; remote matter of bread, 170; remote matter of wine, 172; form, 178; errors concerning the form, 179; effects, 180; the Eucharist is the best disposition for gaining indulgences, 182; how venial sins diminish the effects of the Eucharist, 184; when the Eucharist produces its effects, 185; the Eucharist received by means of a tube, ib.; subject capable of receiving the Eucharist, 186; dispositions required for receiving the Eucharist on the part of the soul, 191 sqq.; on the part of the body, 196 sqq.; obligation of receiving the Eucharist, 205; reception of the Eucharist in desire is necessary by necessity of means, 200; actual reception is necessary by necessity of precept, 207; when this precept binds, 208; minister of consecration, 216; ordinary and extraordinary minister of distribution, 217; whether a layman can administer Viaticum in extreme necessity, ib.; requirements for the licit distribution of the Eucharist, 219; when it is licit to distribute the Eucharist on the night of the Nativity, 221; it is a grave sin to distribute or carry the Eucharist without any sacred vestment, unless necessity excuses, 223; how the Eucharist is to be carried to the sick, ib. (7); reservation, 225 sqq.; exposition, 228; the Eucharist insofar as it is the sacrifice of the Mass, 229 sqq.
Eudaemonism, insofar as it is a system of morality, I 101.
A eunuch is irregular, III 621; he labors under the impediment of impotence, 798. See also Castration.
Euthanasia, whether it is licit, II 672.
Eutrapely, what it is, II 317.
Examination of conscience before confession: its necessity, III 383; required diligence, 384; its method, 385.
Excision of the ovaries and uterus, whether it causes the impediment of impotence or renders the use of matrimony illicit, III 799, note 56.
Excommunication, what it is, III 498; of how many kinds it is, 499; its immediate effects, 500 sqq.; mediate effects, 505; excommunications existing today, 506 sqq.
An excommunicated person is either tolerated or to be avoided, III 499; it is licit to pray for the excommunicated, II 341; likewise to offer Mass, provided that they are not persons to be avoided, III 250; an excommunicated person cannot be a sponsor, 146. Cf. Effects of Excommunication.
Excuse from a law: whether it is licit to posit causes excusing from a law, I 237; excuse from restitution, II 241 sqq.; from Sunday Mass, 486 sqq.; from festal rest, 495; from fasting and abstinence, 664 sqq.; from censures, III 486 sqq.
Artists employing a nude person as a model (commonly, Modell), II 695.
One giving a depraved example, how he sins, see Scandal; how he is bound to restitution, II 103.
Exemption from a law: whether it is licit to posit causes exempting from a law, I 237; exemption from a law granted to children, 189; to travelers, 194; from making restitution, II 241 sqq.; those violating the exemption of clerics commit sacrilege, 540.
Spiritual exercises to be performed by ordinands, III 608.
Exheredation, how it is licit or illicit, II 281.
Exorcism is either properly or broadly so called, II 463; a public exorcism cannot be performed without the permission of the Ordinary, ib.; what effect it produces, ib.
Order of exorcist, what power it bestows, III 589; its matter and form, 592; required age, 605; required knowledge, 606.
Expenses are distinguished as necessary, useful, and pleasurable, II 208; by whom those made upon another's property are to be borne, 213 sqq.
Exposed infants, whether they are to be rebaptized, III 128; whether they are irregular, 614.
Public exposition of the Most Holy Eucharist always requires the permission of the bishop (even in churches of religious), III 228; what private exposition is, ib.; it can be made for a reasonable cause by the rector of the church, ib.; exposition of the holy images and relics, II 387.
Deconsecration of a church, how it occurs, III 294; of an altar, 296; of sacred utensils, 301.
Ecstasy is an effect of vehement love, I 551.
An external act indeed does not increase morality of itself, but it is to be declared in confession, I 133 sqq.; external attention required for prayer, II 355; in the minister of a sacrament, III 61; external intention in the minister of a sacrament, III 67.
Extraordinary confessor of nuns, his qualities and obligations, III 417.
Extreme Unction, see Unction.
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Faculties granted to confessors, I 245; those delegated to bishops and superiors general of religious orders do not expire by the death of the indultary, 264.
False accusation of solicitation, III 468 and 513; one who makes false relics, knowingly sells, distributes, or publicly exposes them, incurs excommunication, 522.
Forgers of Apostolic Letters are excommunicated, III 512.
Reputation, what it is, II 187; how a man has dominion over his own reputation, 7; even the deceased retain a right to good reputation, 194; injury to reputation, 187; see also Defamation; danger of injury to reputation is a cause excusing from the material integrity of confession, III 380; defect of reputation insofar as it induces irregularity, 618.
Family wage, whether it is owed to workers, II 312.
Members of religious households, see Resident Students.
Suspected familiarity is a canonical cause of dispensation from matrimonial impediments, III 862.
Servants cannot give alms from the master's goods, I 596; their cooperation in the master's sins, 621; petty thefts committed in the master's goods, II 83; when they can compensate themselves occultly, 90; when they are bound from negative cooperation to compensate the master's damage, 109; they are bound to show obedience, reverence, and faithful service to masters, 596; when they are excused from festal rest, 496; from the law of fasting and abstinence, 665; whether they can satisfy the Sunday precept in the master's private oratory, 485.
Foolish persons, see The Insane.
Supporters of heretics are excommunicated, III 507; likewise in several other crimes; see the individual crimes.
Artificial fecundation, whether it is licit, III 799.
Woman, see Women.
The Fenian society is prohibited under excommunication, III 516.
Interest, what it is, II 285; causes legitimating it, 287.
Thursday in the Supper of the Lord: private Masses cannot be said unless by special permission, III 281; in cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches a solemn Mass is to be celebrated and all the other prescribed liturgical functions are to be performed, ib.; if a feast of precept falls on Thursday in the Supper of the Lord, the bishop must take care that several Masses are celebrated, ib.
- Good Friday (Friday in Parasceve): when it is licit to say a votive Mass on that day, III 282; to distribute Holy Communion, 221.
Feasts: their observance, II 465 sqq.; on which the application of Mass for the people is prescribed, III 256; on which it is licit to perform ordinations of clerics, 599.
Fetishism, II 705.
Fiction of law, what it is, I 220; fiction in contracts, II 257; in a vow, 394; in an oath, 444, 457; what simulation of a sacrament is, III 81; it is never licit, ib.; a simulated absolution of an accomplice does not excuse from censure, 457; simulation in matrimonial consent, 81, 732.
Faith: the various significations of this name, I 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.; doubt in faith, 520; dangers to faith, 521 sqq.
good faith in prescription, II 62; in the possessor of another's thing, 209.
betrothal fidelity, when violated, is a sufficient cause for dissolving betrothals, III 719; it is violated in three ways, ib.; what the good of fidelity in matrimony is and what obligations it induces, 687.
Confidence, an effect of the gift of fortitude, II 621.
Children, what dominion they have, II 26 sqq.; how those retaining a wage sin, 28; concerning domestic thefts, 83; in the choice of a state they are not bound to obey their parents, 583; how their vows can be invalidated by parents, 417; their obligations toward parents, 589; illegitimate children, see Illegitimate Children.
End: its definition, I 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.
Fixed altar, III 296.
Liquid does not break the ecclesiastical fast, II 662.
Foecundation, see Fecundation.
Animated or inanimate fetus, II 136; it is never licit directly to kill a fetus, 139; ectopic fetuses, 146; an abortive fetus is to be baptized, III 131. See also Abortion.
Baptismal font, how it is to be consecrated, III 100.
Sources of moral theology, I 5 sqq.
Forensic works prohibited on Sundays and feast days, II 493; performed in a church, they are local sacrilege, 546.
Form of all the virtues is charity, I 559; form in sacramental matters is taken in a twofold sense, III 7; its necessity, 9; immutability, 10; when a substantial and accidental mutation is present, 13 sq.; eight ways in which the form of the sacraments can be changed, 14; even an accidental mutation of the form made without sufficient reason is sinful, 15; simultaneity of form and matter is necessary in the sacraments, 16; certitude of the form in the sacraments, 18; its application to the matter, 19; repetition of the form in the sacraments, 21; conditional form in the sacraments, 22; when it is licit to employ it, 24; first origin of the conditional form, 25; gracious form in dispensations, III 854 (3).
Fornication, what it is, II 698; its malice, ib.; when an obligation of repairing damage arises from it, 148 sqq.; it is a cause for dissolving betrothals, III 719.
Fortitude, insofar as it is a condition of every virtue, II 620; insofar as it is a special virtue, 621; insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, ib. and I 452; acts of fortitude, II 622; its parts, 625; opposed vices, 638.
Internal and external forum, III 407; matrimonial dispensations for either the internal or external forum, 854; those violating the privilege of the forum are excommunicated, III 510 and II 542; how the forum, that is, communication in judgment, is prohibited to the excommunicated, III 504.
Freemasons, see Masonic Sect.
Fraternal correction, see Correction.
Fraud, what it is, I 418; it is sometimes a daughter of avarice, ib.; fraud or deceit in contracts, II 257, 293, 312, 318; in taxes, I 294; in evading military service, 300; to go to another place in fraud of the law in order to confess a reserved sin, III 429.
Frequenting an acatholic church, I 527; acatholic schools, 528.
Fruits of a thing are distinguished as natural, industrial, mixed, and civil, II 208; restitution of fruits to be made by a possessor in good faith, 213; by a possessor in bad faith, 218; fruits of an ecclesiastical benefice: how they are to be disposed of, 37; whether a cleric is bound to restore surplus fruits badly employed, ib.; to what restitution a beneficed cleric who does not recite the Divine Office is bound, 364; a canon not assisting in choir, 366.
fruits of the Mass, see Mass.
fruits of the Holy Spirit, I 454.
Morning morsel on fast days, II 657.
Cosmetic paint, whether it is licit, I 613.
Flight, insofar as it is a passion, I 77; of a prisoner from prison, II 164; from an occasion in sins of lust, 687.
Smoking, with respect to the Eucharistic fast, III 199.
Founded Masses: with respect to their stipend and their discharge, III 270 sq.
Funeral: whether it is licit to be present at funerals of acatholics, I 526; those who request a funeral from an acatholic minister are suspected of heresy, ib.
Theft, what it is, II 78; absolutely and relatively grave matter in theft, 80; when petty thefts are a mortal sin, 82; thefts of servants, 83; of wives, ib.; of children of families, ib.; theft in public things, 84; when the taking of another's thing is not theft, 84 sqq.; when sacred theft is sacrilege, II 548, 554.
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Joy, insofar as it is a passion, I 78; sinful joy, 399; how it is specified, 400; joy over an act of marriage, whether past or future, 401; lustful joy, II 688.
General accusation of sins, when it is licit, III 325, 365 sq.; general confession, 388.
Genesis and analysis of the human act, I 34; of the act of faith, 486.
Management of affairs, insofar as it is a contract, II 48, 283.
Gnome, insofar as it is a potential part of prudence, I 633, II 619.
Degrees of consanguinity and affinity, how they are to be computed, III 831, 843.
Sanctifying grace is conferred by the sacraments ex opere operato, III 35; what sacramental grace is, 40; first and second grace in the sacraments, 33, 40.
Thanksgiving after Communion, III 195.
Gratitude, when it is a special virtue, II 605; its offices, 606; its necessity and beauty, 607; its qualities, 608; the opposed vice, namely ingratitude, 609.
Gregorian Masses, how they are to be discharged, III 269.
Gluttony, insofar as it is a capital vice, I 425; from its genus it is a venial sin, 426; its daughters, 427; its remedies, 428; insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of abstinence, II 667.
Drops adhering to the wall of the chalice, are they consecrated? III 175; drops swallowed while the teeth are being washed do not violate the Eucharistic fast, 199 (c).
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Habits, what they are, I 438; of how many kinds they are, 439; in which powers habits are found, 440; their origin and increase, 441; their diminution and corruption, 442; their influence on the morality of the human act, 90; decent dress for receiving the Most Holy Eucharist, III 196; immodest dress of women, I 613.
Heresy: its notion, I 514; divisions, 515; malice, 516; ecclesiastical penalties, 517; books defending heresy are prohibited under penalty of excommunication, III 508.
A heretic validly baptized is a member of the Church, III 113; when one returning to the bosom of the Church must be baptized conditionally, 137; confession of a new convert who is baptized conditionally, 138; a heretic cannot be a sponsor in baptism, 145; in confirmation, 163; it is licit to apply Mass for heretics in an occult manner, 250; penalties against heretics, I 517, III 507; how they can be absolved, III 507 and 80, and I 517; how heretics and their descendants are irregular, I 517, III 623; if a spouse falls into heresy, an imperfect divorce can be made, 680; heretics, that is, those born and educated in heresy, are not bound to observe the prescribed form in the celebration of matrimony, 756; when it is licit to enter the churches of heretics, I 527; to construct them, 620; a dying heretic with respect to the sacraments, III 80.
Holy Week: during its last three days private Masses are ordinarily prohibited, III 281; by indult low Masses are sometimes permitted, ib.; in which churches the prescribed liturgical functions must be performed, ib.; whether Holy Communion can be distributed on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, 283.
Inheritance: notion, II 273; acceptance under benefit of inventory, 278; hereditary propensions, I 90 and 439.
Heir, who is called universal, intestate, necessary, or arbitrary, II 273; his obligations and rights, 278, 282.
Hermaphrodite, with respect to matrimony, III 799.
Heroic act, when it can be commanded by law, I 184.
Master: his faculty of invalidating the vows of servants, II 419; his obligations toward subjects, 595.
Homicide: its malice, II 131; committed in a sacred place, it is sacrilege, 546; it causes irregularity, III 621.
Public propriety is a diriment impediment of matrimony, III 845; extent of this impediment, 846; cessation, ib.; honesty, insofar as it is an integral part of temperance and the guardian of chastity, II 646.
Honor, what it is, II 182; its comparison with reverence, praise, and glory, ib.; it is injured through contumely, 183; malice of contumely, 184; restitution of honor, 185; it cannot be repaired by payment of money, ib.
Hour of dinner and of the evening collation on fast days, II 654; how long dinner can last and be interrupted, ib.; hour for celebrating Mass, III 290; privileges concerning the hour of celebration, ib.
Canonical Hours, see Divine Office.
Guests, when they satisfy the precept of Mass in a private oratory, II 485.
An unconsecrated host cannot be given in order to dissimulate a sacrament, III 84; a host to be consecrated must be fresh, clean, whole, and circular in form, 171; hosts are to be renewed at least every two weeks, ib.; when a large host is lacking, it is licit to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass with a small host, ib.; let the priest keep watch over those who bake hosts, ib.; it is not licit to give a larger host to laypersons in Communion, 223; consecrated hosts must not be removed from the altar except after the Communion of the consecrating priest, 233; one who casts away a consecrated host is excommunicated, 506.
Humeral must be blessed, III 298.
Humility, what it is, II 712; its necessity, 713; degrees and acts, 714; opposed vices, 715.
Hyperdulia, what it is, II 384.
Hypnotism: its effects and use, II 522; its morality, 523.
Hypocrisy, what it is, II 168; it is reduced to lying, ib.; it is a daughter of pride, I 414.
Hysteria, what it is and its characteristic signs, I 96; its influence on the morality of acts, 97; its cure, 98.
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Boasting, what it is, I 414; it is a daughter of pride, ib.
Fixed ideas greatly diminish the voluntary, I 95; how they are caused and removed, ib.
Idolatry, what it is, II 502; divisions, 503; its moral malice, 504.
Fasting is taken in a fourfold sense, II 650; what the ecclesiastical fast is, ib.; in what its essence consists, 653; its excellence, 651; evolution of the law of fasting, ib. and 652; concerning dinner on fast days, 654; concerning the evening collation, 656; concerning the morning morsel, 657; time of fasting, 658; persons bound to fasting, 660; whether this obligation is grave, 661; concerning liquid on fast days, 662; causes excusing from fasting, 664; who can dispense from the law of fasting, ib.; the fast prescribed for gaining the jubilee, III 560.
- the natural fast before Communion, III 198; when it begins, ib.; it admits no slightness of matter either on the part of time or on the part of the thing consumed, ib.; fittingness of this law, ib.; how the time of midnight is to be computed, 200; this fast is violated by everything taken extrinsically after the manner of food or drink, 199; but it is not violated by smoking tobacco, by washing the mouth, or by artificial nutrition performed in the rectum, ib. and note 5; exemptions from this natural fast, 201; dispensation from this fast pertains to the Supreme Pontiff alone, 204; dispensations granted not only to the dying but also to the infirm, 203; whether it is licit to employ epikeia in this law, 204; the natural fast is laudably, but not necessarily, observed in receiving confirmation, 160.
Cowardice, insofar as it is a vice opposed to fortitude, II 638.
Ignorance, what it is, I 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, I 499; ignorance of the penitent to be dispelled, III 436; ignorance excuses from censures, III 484, 488, but not from irregularities, 613, not from the reservation of sins, 423, not from impediments of matrimony, 794, 830; whether a confessor ignorant of the reservation of some case absolves validly, 428.
Illegitimate children, who they are, III 884; natural and spurious children are distinguished, ib.; how they are legitimated, ib.; they are irregular, 614; their rights and obligations with respect to ownership, II 26; their obligations toward their parents, 586.
Images of the saints, how they may be venerated, II 387; obscene images and statues, insofar as they are to be removed on account of scandal, I 614.
Scandalous immodesty in dress, I 613; it prevents the reception of Communion, III 196.
Ecclesiastical immunity: its violation is sacrilege, II 543.
Impatience, insofar as it is a vice opposed to the virtue of patience, II 641.
Those who hinder someone from obtaining some good, when they are bound to restitution, II 94; those who hinder ecclesiastical jurisdiction are excommunicated, III 510; those who hinder Apostolic Letters are likewise excommunicated, III 511.
Impediments of matrimony, what they are, III 777; how they are distinguished, 778; prohibitory impediments, 779 sqq.; diriment impediments, 785 sqq.; cessation of impediments in general, 852; cessation by dispensation, 853 sqq.
- impediments of ordination, III 623.
Moral imperfections, what they are and whether they are sufficient matter for sacramental absolution, III 324.
An impenitent person is incapable of Extreme Unction, III 580 note.
Imposition of hands in confirmation, III 155; as matter in ordination, 594 sq.
Inability, what inability excuses from positive law, I 236 sq.; from restitution, II 242, 243; from the ecclesiastical fast, 665; from the material integrity of confession, III 379; from incurring a censure, 486.
- impotence, insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 797; the manner of acting to be observed by the parish priest or confessor concerning this impediment, 802.
Imprecation, see Curse.
Printers of prohibited books, whether they incur excommunication, III 508; who are considered printers, ib.; those printing Sacred Scripture and its commentaries or annotations without the approval of the Ordinary incur an excommunication reserved to no one, 524.
Those who have not reached puberty, who are so considered, II 26; they are not subject to certain human laws, I 190; they are not subject to latae sententiae censures, III 474; their betrothals are rescindable, III 711; their matrimony is null, 796. See also Infants.
Immodesty, see Looks, Kisses, Conversations, Immodest Touches.
Inadvertence of a habitual sinner, whether it excuses from sin, I 47.
Inequality of sins, I 363; of virtues, 467 sqq.
Vainglory, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, I 414; insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, II 639.
Incardination is legitimate reception into another diocese, III 597.
The mystery of the Incarnation, whether it must be believed explicitly by necessity of means, I 499.
Incest, what it is and what malice it contains, II 701; when the degree of consanguinity or affinity must be declared in confession, III 372.
Inhabitant, who is one, I 193.
Inconsideration in acting, insofar as it arises from lust, I 420; insofar as it is opposed to prudence, 634.
Inconstancy often arises from lust, I 420; it is opposed to prudence, 634, and to perseverance, II 642.
Indifferent acts, whether they exist in species and in the individual, I 128 sqq.
Unworthy administration of the sacraments, what sort of sin it is, II 552, III 56 sqq.; unworthy reception of the sacraments is sacrilege, II 552, III 88.
Indisposition of the penitent, III 438.
Indissolubility of matrimony, III 662 sqq.
Inducement to sin, whether it is a circumstance necessarily to be confessed, II 698.
Indulgences: notion, III 539; they are a most efficacious means for removing temporal punishments, 540; they are at once absolution and payment, 543; what indulgences are not, ib.; divisions, 544; indulgences granted to some church of regulars cease if that church is handed over to others, 545; there is in the Church the power of granting indulgences, 547; this power belongs to the Pope and his delegates, 549; conditions required for gaining indulgences, 550 sqq.; how prescribed works are to be fulfilled, 552; collections pertaining to the matter of indulgences, 557; indulgences of a jubilee, see Jubilee; an indulgence at the point of death, see Blessing; an indulgence of a privileged altar, see Privileged Altar; rules for distinguishing true indulgences from apocryphal ones, III 567; those who make gain from indulgences incur excommunication, 514.
Infamy is either of law or of fact, III 618; how it is incurred, ib.; how it ceases, ib.; the infamy of a woman arising from suspicion is a canonical cause for obtaining a matrimonial dispensation, 863.
Infants, what they are, I 188; whether they are subject to laws, 189; it is not licit to provoke them to transgress the natural or divine law, 153; what sacraments they can receive, III 87; an infant can be validly baptized in the maternal womb, 129; the lot of infants who die without baptism, 117; baptism with respect to infants of Catholic, heretical, and unbelieving parents, 126 sqq.; foundling infants with respect to the conferral of baptism, 128; it is not licit to apply Mass for infants who die without baptism, 249; infants cannot contract betrothals, 711.
Unbelievers: what positive and negative unbelief are, I 509; malice of unbelief, 510; communication with unbelievers, 511; unbelievers are not subject to ecclesiastical laws, 187; Mass can be applied for them, III 249; their marriages are subject to just civil laws, 651; but they are not affected by impediments of ecclesiastical law except indirectly, ib.; how their matrimony is dissoluble, 676.
Illness, what illness excuses from hearing prescribed Mass, II 486; from the ecclesiastical fast, 665; from the Eucharistic fast, III 203; in what illness it is licit to receive Extreme Unction, 580; what illness excuses from the material integrity of confession, 379; bodily or spiritual illness is a reason for diminishing sacramental satisfaction, 397.
Unformed faith, I 492; unformed hope, 538; whether an unformed contract is valid, II 259; an unformed testament, 277; what an unformed sacrament is, III 33; whether it revives, 41 sqq.; whether unformed betrothals oblige in conscience, 707.
Ingratitude, material and formal, what sort of sin it is and how it is committed, II 609.
An enemy is to be loved from charity, I 571; therefore every hatred of enmity and every desire for revenge must be laid aside, 573 sq.; at least the common signs of love are to be shown to an enemy, 575; reconciliation is to be sought, 577.
Initial love, what it is and whether it is required in attrition, III 345.
"Those things which are to be enjoined by law having been enjoined" (iniunctis de iure iniungendis): what this formula customarily employed in rescripts signifies, III 496.
Injustice, see Justice.
An innocent person: his unjust killing, II 131; his unjust condemnation, 158.
Innominate contracts, II 250.
Disobedience, see Obedience.
Inquiry necessary for resolving a practical doubt, I 331; for finding the owner of a lost thing, II 48; in a case of doubtful possession, 221; in a case of doubtful baptism, III 137, 808; in a case of doubtful matrimony, 803; inquiry concerning the name of an accomplice is illicit, 381.
Inscription, see Notation.
Insinuation, what it is in the contract of donation, II 271.
Instruction, see Education.
Integrity of confession is either material or formal, III 366; formal integrity is always necessary, but material integrity is not, ib.; integrity extends to the lowest species of sins, to their number, and to species-changing circumstances, 367 sqq.; the external act of sin is to be confessed, 373; likewise, a foreseen external effect, 374; whether doubtful sins are to be confessed, 375; causes excusing from material integrity are physical and moral inability, 378 sqq.; means for obtaining integrity of confession, 383 sqq.
Intellect, insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, I 448; insofar as it is an intellectual virtue, 457; insofar as it is an integral part of prudence, 631.
Intemperance, see Temperance.
Intention in the genesis of the human act, I 34; the intention necessary for fulfillment of a law, 223; intention of the minister of the sacraments, III 62; divisions, 63; for receiving the sacraments an interpretative intention sometimes suffices, but for administering them at least a virtual intention is required, ib.; the intention of doing what the Church does is necessary, 66; what if two incompatible intentions are present, ib.; whether the external intention alone of the minister of the sacraments suffices, 67; what intention is required for receiving the sacraments, 87; it is not licit to presume an intention of receiving baptism in a pagan deprived of his senses, 135; the intention necessary for gaining indulgences, 550; a right intention is necessary in one to be ordained, 603.
Ecclesiastical interdict: its notion, III 527; divisions, ib.; effects, 528; cessation, ib.; interdict from entrance into a church, 529; interdicts in force today, 530 sq.
Interest (interesse), see Interest (fenus).
An internal act, whether it can be commanded by a human law, I 182 sq.; whether an internal sin can be reserved, III 422.
Interpellation of an unbelieving spouse required by the Pauline privilege, III 673; its object, ib.; dispensation from it, ib.
Interpreter: whether anyone is bound to confess through an interpreter, III 365; such an interpreter is bound by the seal of confession, ib.; how such a confession can be made prudently, ib.
Interpretation of a law, what it is, I 227; of how many kinds it is, 228; rules to be observed in interpreting a law, 230; interpretation of a dispensation, 262; of privileges, 266; of vows, II 408; of an oath, 454.
Interpretative intention, what it is, III 63; whether it suffices in one administering, 66; in one receiving the sacraments, 87.
Questions to be asked by a confessor ought to be moderate, discreet, and opportune, III 435; questions concerning the habit and occasion of sinning, 370.
Interruption: there are as many sins as there are morally interrupted acts of an evil will, I 378; when an interruption of the form renders a sacrament invalid, III 20; interruption of the Divine Office, II 375; of Mass, III 304; of the conjugal act, 699; of the marriage banns, 725 sq.
Intervals to be observed between individual ordinations, III 599.
Inventory: accepting an inheritance under benefit of inventory, II 278.
The finder of a lost thing, to what he is bound by natural law, II 48; by certain civil laws, 50 sqq.; the inventor of some industrial work, what rights he has in the offspring of his own ingenuity, 8.
Envy: its notion, I 421; its malice, 422; its daughters, 423; its remedies, 424; envy of a brother's grace is a sin against the Holy Spirit, 360.
Invocation of the saints, II 344; of infants who died after baptism, ib.; of souls in purgatory, ib.; whether invocation of the saints is not only licit but also necessary, 345.
The involuntary, what it is and how it is distinguished from the non-voluntary, I 56.
Anger, what it is as a passion, I 84; as a capital vice, 429; malice of anger, that is, wrathfulness, 430; its daughters, 431; its remedies, 432.
Irony is a species of lying, II 167.
Irregularity: its notion, III 609; division, 610; conditions required for incurring an irregularity, 611; ignorance does not excuse, ib.; cessation, 612; who can dispense, 613; irregularities from defect, 614 sqq.; from delict, 620 sqq.
Irreligiosity, what it is, II 500.
Irreverence, see Reverence.
Vaginal irrigations after intercourse, when they are illicit, III 699 note 408.
Mockery is reduced to contumely, II 184; sometimes it is an act of the virtue of eutrapely, ib.
An invalidating law, I 213 sqq.
Invalidation of a vow, what it is, II 411; who can invalidate vows directly and who indirectly, 416 sq.; effects of invalidation, both direct and indirect, 412 sq.; invalidation of an oath, 455; invalidation of a contract, 251.
Repetition of the sacraments, when it is licit or necessary, III 21; of Extreme Unction, 582; of the marriage banns, 725.
One commanding, see Command.
Jubilee, what it is, III 559; ordinary and extraordinary jubilee, ib.; conditions required, 560; special faculties during a jubilee, 561; suspension of graces during a jubilee, 562; if someone commits sacrilege in the confession prescribed by the jubilee, the reservation of the case confessed is not removed, 428.
Jews are not to be violently impelled to the Catholic faith, I 511; nevertheless, they can be compelled not to hinder Catholic worship, ib.; civil communication with them today seems licit, 523; when their children can be baptized, III 128.
Judge: his necessary knowledge, II 153; he is bound to judge according to just laws, ib.; whether he is bound to restitution if he unlawfully absolves an accused person from paying a fine, ib.; whether he can judge according to manifestly unjust laws, 154 and III 893; in doubt a judge ought to favor the accused, II 156; he cannot licitly accept gifts from litigants, 157; whether he is always bound to judge according to the allegations of witnesses, 158.
Rash judgment, what it is, II 199; its malice, 200; how its gravity is to be judged in practice, 201; what sort of sin a defect of judgment in an oath is, II 458.
Oath (iuramentum), see Oath (iusiurandum).
Jurors, see Judge.
Juridical fault, what it is and when it induces an obligation of restitution, II 92, 98.
Jurisdiction, what it is, III 406; that which is due for licitly distributing the Eucharist, 219; divisions, 407; to whom ordinary jurisdiction belongs, 409; how delegated jurisdiction is acquired and ceases, 411; what putative jurisdiction is, 413; when the Church supplies jurisdiction, ib.; whether it is licit to absolve with doubtful or probable jurisdiction, 414; whence the jurisdiction of a regular confessor proceeds, 415; jurisdiction for absolving male and female religious, 416 sq.; restriction of jurisdiction with respect to persons, place, time, and sins, 418; see also Reservation of Cases; how jurisdiction is prohibited to tolerated and vitandus excommunicates, 504; those who hinder the exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction are excommunicated, 510; ordinary and delegated jurisdiction for conferring orders, 597.
Right: its diverse acceptations, II 1; its relation to law, ib.; every right is derived from the eternal law, ib.; divisions, 2; what the law of nations is, ib. and 4; object of right, 6; the right of making a testament is indeed founded in natural law but is determined by civil law, 274.
Meat broth is prohibited on days of abstinence, II 663.
Oath (iusiurandum): its notion, II 437; divisions, 438; its honesty, 439; conditions required for a valid and licit oath, 441 sq.; obligation of an oath, 448; whether a vow obliges more than an oath, ib.; obligation of an oath of fidelity, 451; interpretation, 454; cessation of a promissory oath, 455; who are prohibited from swearing, 447; violation of an oath, 456; an oath added to a contract, 265.
Command, what it is and how it differs from a mandate, II 101; how it induces the obligation of repairing damage caused, ib.
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Kalendarium, see Calendar.
Kantianism in moral matters, see Rationalism.
Cartel, see Monopoly, II 303 note.
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Labor, whether it is necessary for each person, I 569; what labor is prohibited on feast days, II 492; what labor excuses from fasting, 665.
Breastfeeding offspring, what obligation the mother has, II 588.
Dairy foods on days of fasting and abstinence, II 654.
A layman can in extreme necessity administer the Eucharist, III 217; being in a state of mortal sin and administering baptism of necessity, he does not sin mortally, 57; he cannot validly hear a sacramental confession, and why the so-called lay confession formerly in use is to be abolished, 405; those having recourse to lay power in order to hinder acts of the Holy See are excommunicated, 510; likewise, those having recourse to it in order to hinder ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 511; likewise, those who bring clerics before a lay judge, ib.
Lamps: several lamps, or at least one, are to shine continually by day and night before the tabernacle of the Most Holy Sacrament, III 227; this precept is grave of itself, ib.; olive oil is generally to be used to feed the lamp, but the bishop can also permit other oils, ib.; indeed, electric light can sometimes be employed in place of this lamp, ib.
Lard: its use on days of abstinence, II 663.
Latria, to whom it is to be shown, II 386.
A lax conscience, see Conscience.
Laxism, what it teaches as a moral system, I 343; its defenders, ib.
Reading bad books introduces a grave danger to faith, I 530; when it is punished by excommunication, III 508.
Lectorate, what power it confers, III 589; its matter and form, 592; required age, 605; required knowledge, 606.
Legal justice, II 71; consent of the legislator necessary for a valid custom, I 278; a legal premium is a title for receiving interest, II 288; legal price, 296.
Legacy is either strictly so called or a fideicommissum, II 275; whether legacies made for pious causes in an unformed testament oblige in conscience, 277.
Those reading prohibited books, what penalties they incur, III 508; what is light matter in such reading, ib.
The legislator, how he is subject to his own laws, I 191 sq.; a civil legislator can transfer the ownership of subjects, 286; he can establish matrimonial impediments for unbelieving subjects, III 651.
Legitimate portion of heirs, see Legitimate Portion.
Legitimation of an illegitimate child, III 884.
Defect of clemency, insofar as it is an irregularity, III 619; excess of clemency is opposed to the virtue of clemency, II 710.
Law, what it is, I 142; its four acts, 145; its divisions, 146; what the eternal law is and how all other laws ought to be derived from it, 149 sq.; what the 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.; the positive divine law of the New and Old Law, 159 sqq.; how dispensation can be granted from this law, 164; authors of human (ecclesiastical) law, 166 sqq.; object of human law, 181 sqq.; who are subject to human law, 186 sqq.; promulgation and acceptance of a law, 200 sqq.; obligation of human law, 205 sqq.; what a penal law is and how it obliges, 209 sqq.; an invalidating law: its notion, 213; its effects, 214 sq.; a law founded upon a false presumption, 216 sqq.; manner and time of fulfilling a law, 221 sqq.; interpretation of a law, 226 sqq.; cessation of a law, 234 sqq.; dispensation, 238 sqq.; privilege, 263 sqq.; civil law and its obligation, 284 sqq.
Free status, how it is to be proved before matrimony, III 723.
Liberality, insofar as it is a special virtue, II 615; the vices opposed to it, 616.
Human liberty (free will), what it is and of how many kinds, I 50; its existence is proved, 51; so-called liberty of conscience, 302; liberty of worship, 511; penalties against violators of ecclesiastical liberty, III 511; liberty of choosing a state of life, II 585, III 526.
A free act, what it is, I 50; of how many kinds it is, ib.; how it is distinguished from the voluntary, 49.
Bad books cause a grave danger to faith, I 530; cooperation in publishing and disseminating bad books, 623; which books are prohibited under excommunication, III 508; the actions concerning prohibited books which are punished by excommunication are reading, retaining, printing, and defending them, ib.
Bidding, see Sale by Auction.
Prior bond, insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 803 sq.; penalties against those who violate the impediment of prior bond, 805.
Cutting timber, with respect to theft, II 84.
Mass linens: their washing, III 300.
Liquid, what kind is permitted on days of fasting, II 662.
Litanies, whether they are to be recited in the Divine Office, II 361; litanies approved for liturgical offices, 381.
Lawsuits already arisen, as a cause for a matrimonial dispensation, III 862.
Contentiousness: its notion, II 614.
Letters: whether and how one reading another's letters sins, II 181; testimonial and dimissorial letters, III 598; matrimony contracted by letters, 736; how one is to write to the Sacred Penitentiary to obtain a matrimonial dispensation, 869; letters perinde valere, 874.
Apostolic Letters: if anyone reads books prohibited by them, he incurs excommunication, III 508; falsifiers of Apostolic Letters incur excommunication, 511.
Liturgical requisites for celebrating Mass, III 281 sqq.
To rent a house to prostitutes and other evil persons, when it is licit, I 622.
Hiring: what the contract of hiring is, II 305; hiring of things, of a work to be done, and of labor, ib.; the proper nature of the hiring of labor, 306; obligations of workers, 308; of masters, 307.
Sacred place, what it is, II 545; the due place for hearing Mass, 482; for celebrating it, III 293 sqq.; for administering the sacraments: baptism, 141; confirmation, 162; Communion, 212, 222; confession, 329; ordinations, 599; for matrimonial banns, 728.
Longanimity: its relation to patience, II 635.
Defect of speech, when it excuses from the material integrity of confession, III 379; when it induces irregularity, 616.
Lottery, when it is licit, II 320.
The first washing of corporals and purificators is to be performed by a subdeacon, III 300; the water from the washing is to be poured into the sacrarium, ib.; nuns need special permission of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in order to perform this first washing, ib.
Washing out the stomach does not violate the Eucharistic fast, III 199.
Vaginal washing after intercourse, III 699 note 408.
Profit acquired and retained by children of a family, how it is sinful, II 28; loss of profit is a title for receiving interest, 287.
Game, what it is, II 316; morality of a recreational game, 317; gaming contract, 318; games prohibited by ecclesiastical law, 319.
Light, see Candles, Wax Candles, Electric Light, Lamps.
The lunette of a monstrance, of what material it is to be made and whether it is to be blessed, III 226.
Lust is taken in a broad and a strict sense, II 681; lust strictly taken and directly willed is a mortal sin from its whole genus, 682 and I 420; indirectly willed lust admits slightness of matter, II 683; effects of lust, 684; its internal sins, 685 sqq.; external sins, 690 sqq.; sacrilegious lust, see Sacrilege.
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To work with a typewriter, whether it is servile work, II 490.
Conspiracy against legitimate authorities, III 516; in the impediment of crime, 823 note 165.
The stain of sin, what it is, I 392; what sort of stain is produced by venial sin, 393.
Magic, what it is, II 517; white magic is licit, black magic illicit, 518.
Teacher: his obligations, II 597; in non-Catholic schools, I 529.
Magnanimity is a special virtue, II 626; its relation to humility, 628; its properties, 629; the vices opposed to it, 639.
Magnetism, what it is and its morality, II 520.
Magnificence is a special virtue annexed to fortitude, II 630 sq.; its relation to liberality, 632; the vices opposed to it, 640.
A person of age, who is such, II 26; his right to the wage of his labor, 28.
Bad faith prevents prescription, II 62; a possessor in bad faith and his obligations, 216 sqq.; how bad faith vitiates matrimonial dispensations, III 883.
Cursing, what it is and when it is illicit, II 534.
Malefactors can licitly be killed and punished corporally by public authority, II 118.
Malefice contains a twofold malice, namely, against religion and against charity, II 519.
The malice of sin, in what it formally consists, I 359; which sins are called sins of malice, 360.
Mandate, insofar as it causes unjust damage, II 101; insofar as it is a gratuitous contract, 283; the obligation of standing by the mandates of the Church in absolution from a censure, III 426 and 496.
One who manifests another's delict, II 192; the name of an accomplice in confession, III 381; one who does not manifest it is sometimes an unjust cooperator, II 109.
Maniple is prescribed under a light obligation for a priest saying Mass, III 298; a cleric serving for a subdeacon in solemn Mass cannot wear a maniple, 300.
Meekness is a virtue annexed to temperance, II 709; sluggishness and wrathfulness are opposed to it, ib.
Manual Masses, which are such properly or after the manner of them, III 271; how they are to be said or entrusted to others, 266.
Hand: a gift from the hand in simony, II 555; imposition of the hand in confirmation, etc., see Imposition of Hands; to lay violent hands upon a cleric, II 541, III 506, 511, and 523.
Three altar cloths, made of linen or hemp and duly blessed, are necessary on an altar upon which Mass is to be said, III 297; the blessing is required under a light obligation, ib.; to celebrate Mass without any altar cloth is a grave sin, ib.
Husband: his power of administering the goods of the family, II 16; of invalidating the vows of his wife and children, 417 sqq.; his obligations and rights, 591.
Martyrdom: what things are required for it, II 623; its efficacy and effects, 624; the aureole granted to martyrs, ib.
Masochism, II 707.
The Masonic sect is prohibited under penalty of excommunication, III 516; who fall under this censure, ib.; the manner of acting in confession with members of the prohibited sect, ib.; notorious Masons cannot be admitted as sponsors in the sacrament of baptism or confirmation, nor be granted ecclesiastical burial, I 513.
Masturbation, see Pollution.
Mother: her obligations toward her offspring, II 587 sqq.; one procuring an abortion is excommunicated, 142.
Grave or light matter in sin, I 364; in theft it is taken in a twofold sense, II 80; matter in sacramental affairs, III 7; proximate and remote matter in the sacraments, 8; its necessity, 9; immutability, 10; when there is a substantial and an accidental change, 11 sq.; even an accidental change of matter is sinful if it is made without sufficient cause, 15; simultaneity of matter and form is necessary in the sacraments, 16; certainty of matter in the sacraments, 18; repetition of matter in the sacraments, 21.
Material sin is to be avoided insofar as possible, I 153, 344, 351; material integrity of confession, III 366.
Matrimony: utility and necessity of the treatise on matrimony, III 625; nominal definition, 627; real definition, 628; in Christian matrimony the contract is inseparable from the sacrament, ib.; the essence of matrimony does not consist in marital intercourse, 631, but in mutual matrimonial consent, 632; material and formal object of the matrimonial contract, 633; the matrimonial contract is a sacred contract, 634, bilateral and incapable of limping, 635; necessity and honesty of matrimony, 637; divisions, 638 sqq.; Christian matrimony is a true sacrament, 643, instituted by Christ, 645; it pertains to the Church alone to judge concerning all things that touch the essence of Christian matrimony, 646 sqq.; the civil power not only can and ought to enact statutes concerning the temporal effects of matrimony, but also concerning the matrimony itself of the non-baptized, 648, 651; matrimony contracted between non-baptized persons or between a baptized and a non-baptized party is not a sacrament, 649; matter and form of matrimony, 654 sq.; qualities of matrimonial consent, 732; matrimony contracted under a condition, 737; minister of the sacrament of matrimony, 655 sqq.; subject of valid and licit matrimony, 657 sqq.; properties of matrimony, 659 sqq.; unity, ib.; indissolubility, 662; consummated Christian matrimony is altogether indissoluble, ib.; ratified but non-consummated matrimony can be dissolved by dispensation of the Supreme Pontiff and by solemn religious profession, 665 sqq.; matrimony of unbelievers can be dissolved by the Pauline privilege, 670; imperfect divorce can be effected because of carnal adultery, 679; because of spiritual adultery, 680; because of grave danger of soul or body, 682 sq.; by mutual consent, 683; the goods of matrimony, 684 sqq.; obligations of matrimony, 700; the conjugal debt: its liceity and obligation, 690 sqq.; preparation for matrimony through betrothals, examination of the betrothed, and banns, 706 sqq.; external celebration of matrimony, 754 sqq.; celebration of matrimony in danger of death, 773; in places where a priest cannot be had, 774; impediments of matrimony, 777 sqq.; their cessation, 852; clerics and religious attempting matrimony, 811.
Civil matrimony, III 885; how it is distinguished, ib.; one entered into between Christians is not recognized by the Church, 886; whether Christians can perform the ceremony of civil matrimony, 887; effects of civil matrimony, 888; whether a magistrate can assist at civil matrimony, 889.
Matrimony of conscience, III 639.
Mixed matrimony, see Mixed Religion.
Matins: what obligation there is of reciting them privately or chorally before the celebration of Mass, II 373, III 291.
Physician cannot employ less safe remedies while safer ones are left aside, I 333; a physician unjustly freeing someone from military service, 300; he is bound by an entrusted secret, II 175; when he incurs irregularity, III 621; when clerics practicing medicine are irregular, 622.
The mean of the thing and of reason in the virtues, I 462; necessity of means, 494.
Memory, insofar as it is an integral part of prudence, I 631; what memory of sins heard is necessary for a confessor, III 387.
A lie, what it is, II 166; its divisions, 167; its malice, 169; what sort of sin it is to lie in confession, III 364.
Fictitious mendicant poor, how they sin, I 598; when mendicants are excused from the law of fasting and abstinence, II 665.
Mendicant religious orders: their privileges concerning various dispensations, I 243 sqq.
Money-changer's table: it is licit to place money there to obtain interest either from obligations or from shares, II 289; common table as a title for ordination, III 607.
Commerce, what kind is prohibited on feast days, II 493; in Mass stipends, III 273; whether it is licit to sell evil things, such as bad books, obscene images, etc., I 623.
The wages of workers are either individual or familial, II 310; what wage is just, ib.
Prostitution is reduced to fornication, II 698; whether a woman can retain the price obtained from prostitution, 253; whether it is licit to rent a house to a prostitute, I 622.
Midday: whether it is licit to distribute Communion after midday, III 221; to say Mass, 290.
The merit of a human act, what it is, I 136; of how many kinds, 137; conditions required for merit, 139; what we can merit, 140; how the merits of Christ and the saints influence indulgences, III 541.
Merchandise in buying, II 292.
Fear, what it is, I 67; its divisions, 68; its influence upon the morality of human acts, 69; positive laws are not accustomed to oblige under grave fear, 70; how it influences the validity of contracts, 71 and II 258; a vow, II 397; an oath, 453; insofar as it excuses from censures, III 487; fear insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, 746 sqq.
Military persons cannot accept a duel to save honor, II 125; their obligations and rights in war, 129 sqq.; with respect to taking booty, 47; with respect to an oath of fidelity, 452; conscripted (mobilized) soldiers before war can be absolved just as faithful persons existing in danger of death, III 424 note; military chaplains or military parish priests are accustomed to have ordinary personal jurisdiction with respect to assistance at matrimony, 758; whether they are bound to apply Mass for their subjects, 254.
Military service prescribed by civil law, how it obliges, I 295; how fraudulent withdrawal from performing military service induces an obligation of restitution, 300.
Minister of the sacraments: only a man who is a wayfarer and who is legitimately deputed or also consecrated is a minister of the sacraments, III 53; neither faith nor probity is required in the minister for valid administration of the sacraments, 55; how a minister administering a sacrament in the state of mortal sin sins, 56; how many sins a minister commits who, while existing in the state of mortal sin, administers several sacraments, 58; what attention is necessary, 61; what intention is necessary, 65 sq.; a minister can never administer a sacrament to one incapable of it, 75, nor to one unworthy except for a most grave cause, 76; of itself it is not licit to request the sacraments from an unworthy minister, 88; whether a Catholic who is asked can summon a heretical minister for a dying heretic, I 526. For what is required in the minister of each sacrament, see the individual sacraments.
Minister for Mass, III 304.
A minor, with respect to ownership of things and his own wage, II 28 sqq.; with respect to the invalidation of his vows, 419; with respect to the faculty of entering into a contract, 254; with respect to the censure for reading prohibited books, III 508; the goods of minors are customarily imprescriptible, II 59.
Mercy, what it is, I 587; the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, ib.
Mass is a true sacrifice and an unbloody real representation of the bloody sacrifice of the Cross, III 231; it is offered to God alone, but can be celebrated in honor of the saints, ib.; in what the essence of the Mass consists, 232; the name of the Mass, 234; value of the Mass, 235, 244; its five effects, 236; its fruit, 237; the diverse offerers, 238; dignity of the Mass, 239; whence the limitation of the fruits of the Mass proceeds, 240; manner of producing its effects, 241; the general, special, most special, and ministerial fruit of the Mass are distinguished, 243; value of a Mass celebrated by a bad priest, 244; application of the Mass, 245 sqq.; one who is not fasting can say Mass in order to complete the sacrifice, 201; obligation of celebrating Mass by reason of the priesthood received, 251; gravity and time of this obligation, 252; obligation of celebrating Mass by reason of a pastoral office, 254; obligation of celebrating Mass by reason of a benefice, 259; founded Masses cannot be reduced by the bishop, 261; obligation of saying Mass by reason of a stipend, 262 sqq.; Mass book and table, 276; exchange of Masses, 277; a stipend probably cannot be accepted for the Mass of a new priest, but it is otherwise concerning the three votive Masses to be said by injunction of the bishop, 278; obligation of saying Mass by reason of a promise, 279; by reason of obedience, 280; religious superiors can prescribe to subjects a Mass to be applied, ib.; Mass during the last three days of Holy Week, 281; several Masses to be said on the same day, 284; faculty of binating, 286; rite to be observed in bination, 289; hour for celebrating Mass, 290; Matins to be recited before Mass, 291; time to be employed for the celebration of Mass, 292; place of celebration, 293; Mass in a camera ardente, ib.; sacred utensils necessary for celebrating, 297 sqq.; rite to be observed in celebration, 302 sqq.
Mass to be heard by the faithful: gravity of this precept, II 476; who are bound to observe it, ib.; bodily presence is required, 477, during the entire Mass, 478; what matter is light, ib.; whether satisfaction can be made through parts of several Masses, 479; religious assistance is required, 480, namely, due intention and attention, ib.; a due place, that is, where Mass is to be heard, 482 sqq.; excusing causes, 486.
A missal with a cushion or small bookstand is required for saying Mass, III 297.
Mixed religion is a prohibitory impediment of matrimony, III 784; morality of a mixed matrimony, 785; duty of the parish priest and confessor regarding the avoidance of mixed marriages, 786; dispensation from this impediment, 787; required conditions, 788; rite to be observed in the celebration of a mixed matrimony, 789; banns to be made, 725; how a mixed matrimony contracted clandestinely is to be treated, 790; those who contract matrimony before a non-Catholic minister are punished by excommunication, 522; danger of a mixed matrimony is a canonical cause for obtaining a matrimonial dispensation, 864; whether betrothals entered into are valid if the contracting parties are of mixed religion, 712.
Mobilized soldiers, see Military Persons.
Moderation of blameless defense, what it is, II 120; its violation, ib.
Modesty: its diverse acceptations, II 711, 717.
Mode in contracts, II 262.
Mohatra, what it is, II 288 note.
Mollities, see Pollution.
Counterfeit money, see Money.
Nuns, that is, all religious women with public vows, can validly and licitly confess to any confessor approved for both sexes whenever they are outside their own house for any reason, III 417; neither can the superior prohibit this nor can she inquire concerning it, ib.; they must indeed approach the extraordinary confessor granted to them, but they are not bound to confess to him, ib.; they can demand that a special confessor also be summoned to hear their confessions, provided a reasonable cause is present, ib.; nuns violating enclosure, III 517; nuns attempting matrimony, 515.
Admonition which a confessor ought to give, III 436; paternal, canonical, and legal admonition to be given by ecclesiastical superiors, 480; how canonical admonition ought to be given before a censure is imposed, ib.
Monopoly, what it is, II 303; whether a legal and a private monopoly is licit, ib.
Mount of piety, when it commits injustice, II 289.
A monster, whether and how it is to be baptized, III 132.
Morality, what it is, I 99; false opinions concerning the norm of morality, 100 sqq.; divisions or species of morality, 109; its principles or sources are the object, circumstances, and end, 110 sqq.; morality of the external act and of the event following, 132 sqq.
Contagious disease, see Contagion.
Morganatic matrimony, III 639.
A dying person, see The Point or Danger of Death.
Morphine, see Narcotic Remedies.
Mortal sin, what it is, I 361; its existence, 362; required conditions, 364; a mortal sin from its genus and from its whole genus, ib.; effects of mortal sin, 392; mortal sin is necessary matter of the sacrament of penance, III 321; it is presupposed for a censure properly so called, 484.
The point or danger of death, with respect to baptism, III 135; with respect to Viaticum, 188, 202; when it excuses from integrity of confession, 379; in it any priest can absolve from all sins and censures, 326, 424, 494; papal blessing at the point of death, its conditions and effects, 563; with respect to Extreme Unction, 577; assistance at matrimony, 773; dispensation from all impediments of matrimony of ecclesiastical law, except two, ib. and 857 sq.
Declaration of death for entering into a new matrimony, III 804.
Desire for death can be something licit, illicit, or imperfect, II 116.
Sacraments of the dead, which they are and what they produce either of themselves or per accidens, III 33.
Motives of credibility, what they are, I 486.
Carnal or venereal motions: their morality, II 690; first-first motions of sensuality are not venial sins, I 26.
A fine, see Penalty.
Women: when their adornment provides scandal, I 613; their emancipation, II 594; their service at Mass, III 304. See also Mother, Wife.
To distribute public offices unjustly, how it induces an obligation of restitution, II 99.
A gift from the hand, tongue, or service in simony, II 555.
Must is indeed valid matter, but gravely illicit, for confecting the Eucharist, III 173.
Change, what kind is grave in the canonical hours, II 370; in the form and matter of the sacraments, III 11; change of a last will, II 279.
Mutilation of oneself is always illicit unless it is employed to save bodily life, II 116; mutilation of a malefactor, insofar as it is a licit corporal punishment, 118; mutilation insofar as it induces an obligation of restitution, II 204; it induces irregularity, III 621; those who mutilate Cardinals and other princes of the Church are excommunicated, 511.
A mute person, as an unjust cooperator, II 109; whether he ought to confess in writing, III 365; with respect to the prayers prescribed for gaining indulgences, 556; he is irregular, 616.
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Narcotic remedies, when they are licit, II 672.
Defect of birth, as an irregularity, III 614. See also Illegitimate Children.
On the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, any priest can, but is not bound to, say three Masses, III 284; it is licit to accept a stipend for each Mass, ib.; blind priests who have the privilege of saying a votive Mass daily can say that votive Mass three times, ib.; whether it is licit to say three private Masses during that night itself, ib.; how it is licit to distribute Communion during the night of the Nativity, 222; on the Vigil of the Nativity there is a joyful fast, II 656; on the day of the Nativity the faithful are bound to assist at only one Mass, 478.
A natural child, see Illegitimate Children.
Natural law, see Law, under Natural Law.
Sailors, whether they can say Mass on a ship, III 295; how they can absolve and be absolved, 411.
Necessity: how a neighbor existing in necessity is to be assisted, I 583 sqq.; when extreme necessity is a legitimate cause for taking another's thing, II 86 sq.; it excuses from making restitution, 242; what necessity of means and of precept is, I 494; necessity excuses from the material integrity of confession, III 366.
Denial of faith is never licit, I 507; denial of absolution, III 438; of burial, 503.
Negligence, insofar as it is a vice opposed to prudence, I 634; opposed to studiousness, II 716; negligence in diverse offices and acts, see the individual entries.
Management of affairs is a gratuitous quasi-contract, II 283; by force of it, a finder is bound to guard the thing taken up and to seek the legitimate owner, 48.
New converts ought to confess their sins if they are baptized under a condition, III 138; the manner of receiving them into the bosom of the Church, ib.
Nihil transeat: when this decree is to be issued by the bishop, III 730.
A nocturn to be said by the newly ordained, III 600.
The name of an accomplice is to be concealed in confession, III 381; a confessor inquiring into the name of an accomplice sins gravely, ib.; a name to be imposed in baptism, III 142.
To take the name of God in vain is a venial sin, II 535.
Notoriety of law and of fact, III 470.
A novice, from whom he can receive Viaticum and Extreme Unction, III 219; absolution, 410.
Numerical distinction of sins, whence it is to be derived, I 376 sqq.
The number of mortal sins, insofar as is morally possible, ought to be declared in confession, III 368; what number is judged to be comprehended in the word "about," ib.; in a petition for absolution from excommunication incurred because of absolution of an accomplice, it must be indicated how many times absolution of the accomplice was attempted, 459; the number of persons with whom someone sinned need not necessarily be accused, 372.
Fairs, what kinds are prohibited on feast days, II 493.
Nuptials: their solemnities are prohibited during closed time, III 772. See also Matrimony and Bigamy.
Nuptial blessing, whether the one simple and the other solemn is to be imparted, III 771.
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An obstacle in the sacraments, what it is, III 36; it does not prevent the impression of character, 108.
The object is the principal source of morality, I 112; how it specifies sins, 373.
Ecclesiastical offerings, what they are, II 499.
Forgetfulness which excuses from sin, I 45, 365; from the material integrity of confession, III 379; whether a forgotten grave sin is to be confessed before Communion, ib.; what is to be done if a penitent has forgotten the satisfaction imposed, 401; a penitent who from inculpable forgetfulness omitted a reserved sin in confession before a privileged confessor is validly absolved, 428.
Obedience: one kind is material, another formal, II 575; its object, 576; its excellence, 577; its extension, 578; opposed vices, 579; obedience of children toward parents, 583; of a wife toward her husband, 592; of servants toward masters, 596; of subjects toward rulers, 601.
Obreption of a dispensation, I 256.
Obsecration, see Adjuration.
Service: a gift from service in simony, II 555.
Observance of the Lord's day and feasts, see The Lord's Day and Feasts; observance is a special virtue, II 574; its distinctions, 573; its obligations, 574.
Vain observance is a species of superstition, II 514; its divisions, 515; its moral malice, 516; criteria for discerning it, 517.
Obsession, see Exorcism.
Midwives are to be diligently instructed concerning conferring baptism in a case of necessity, III 123; concerning baptizing aborted fetuses, 131.
Occasion of sin, what it is, III 449; remote, proximate, voluntary, necessary, continuous, and interrupted occasion, ib.; an occasion of sin must be manifested in confession, 370; whether an occasion of damage induces an obligation of restitution, II 95.
Those living in an occasion of sin can be absolved if they dwell in a remote or a proximate necessary occasion, III 450; but by no means if they refuse to abandon a proximate voluntary occasion, 451.
Killing of oneself, II 112; of an unjust aggressor, 120; of an innocent person, 131; of an infant in the maternal womb, 134 sqq. See also Abortion.
Occult compensation, see Compensation; how an occult sinner requesting the sacraments is to be treated, III 79 sq.; which impediments of matrimony are occult, 778.
Concealment of faith, I 507; of the truth, II 172.
Occupation, what it is, II 40; occupation of animals, 41; of treasure, 45; whether private dominion arose from violent occupation, 4.
Hatred, insofar as it is a passion, I 75; insofar as it is a vice against charity toward God, 564; against charity toward one's neighbor, 573; it often arises from envy, 423.
The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, I 167.
The Divine Office: its diverse names, II 360; propositions condemned in this matter, ib.; its parts, 361; who are bound, 362; this obligation is grave, ib.; what matter is grave, ib.; when this obligation arises for clerics in major orders, 363; for beneficiaries, 364; the Divine Office of canons, 366; of religious, 367; form of the Divine Office, 368; what change is considered grave, ib.; due order to be observed, 371; place and posture, 372; time, 373; anticipation of Matins and Lauds, ib.; causes excusing from recitation, 378; who can dispense, 380.
Fresh oil is to be employed in the consecration of baptismal water, III 100; blessed olive oil is necessarily required as the matter of confirmation, 154; oil for Extreme Unction, 571 sqq.; its reservation, 572.
Omitted sins, when they are to be confessed, III 378.
Omission: sin of omission, I 360.
Onanism is either solitary or conjugal, III 699; how conjugal onanism is performed, ib.; its moral malice, 700; when cooperation in onanism is licit, 701 sq.; means for avoiding conjugal onanism, 703; how a confessor ought to act with spouses practicing onanism, 704.
Oneiromancy, what it is, II 508; whence dreams proceed, ib.
Servile and forensic works prohibited on Sundays and feast days, II 493; works of mercy, I 587.
Workers: their obligations in a contract of hiring, II 308.
A surgical operation, see Surgical Operation.
A strike, when it is lawful, II 309.
Artisans, with respect to interconfessional associations, I 523; observance of the Lord's day, II 486, 495; observance of fasting and abstinence, 665.
Opinion: its notion, I 328; a confessor is not a judge of opinions, 352.
Opium, see Narcotic Remedies.
Oppression of a woman, see Stuprum.
Opus operatum is a theological expression having a twofold signification, III 36.
Prayer: its diverse acceptations, II 331 sq.; it is an act of religion, ib.; what we intend in praying, 333; remote and proximate subject of prayer, 334 sqq.; divisions of prayer: mental, vocal, public, private, etc., 336 sqq.; what can be sought in prayer, 338; for whom one is to pray, 340; to whom our prayers are to be directed, 343; prayer is necessary by necessity of means and of precept, 346; when the precept of praying obliges, 347; primary and secondary effects of prayer, 349 sqq.; conditions required for the efficacy of prayer, 352 sqq.; whether the Lord's Prayer ought to be known by all, I 501.
A public, semipublic, and private oratory, what they are, II 483 sqq.; who satisfy the Sunday precept in a private oratory, 485; whether someone is bound to use the privilege of a private oratory if otherwise he cannot hear prescribed Mass, ib.; it is licit to distribute Communion in private oratories, III 222; but bination is not licit there, 286; when a bishop can grant a private oratory, 293; or permit Mass to be said in a private house, ib.; who have the privilege of a private oratory, 295.
Ordeals, what they are and whether they were lawful, II 511.
Candidates for ordination, III 602 sqq.
Ordinary jurisdiction, to whom it belongs, III 409, 411.
Ordinary: who are comprehended under the name of Ordinary, III 759; his permission is required for the matrimony of vagabonds, 769.
The natural and supernatural order, what it is, I 25; all human acts must be referred to the supernatural order, and therefore a merely philosophical sin cannot exist, ib.
The order of charity, with respect to persons to be loved, I 579 sqq.; with respect to goods to be loved, 583 sqq.
The order of restitution to be made by several cooperators, II 227; among diverse creditors, 236.
The order to be observed in the canonical Hours, II 371.
Order, insofar as it is a sacrament, is taken either actively for ordination itself or passively for the power conferred, III 585; Order actively taken is a true sacrament, ib., instituted by Christ, ib.; although several orders to which sacramental character belongs are distinguished, nevertheless all the orders constitute one potestative whole, 587; whether the four minor orders are sacraments, ib.; first tonsure is not an order, ib.; effects of Order in general, 588; in particular, 589 sq.; matter and form of Order, 592 sqq.; ordinary and extraordinary minister of valid ordination, 596; what is required in the minister of licit ordination, 597 sqq.; subject of ordination, 602 sqq.; qualities of one to be ordained, 602 sqq.; sacred order insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, 817.
Organ: its use in churches, II 464; a heretic can temporarily exercise the office of organist in a Catholic church, I 524, but conversely a Catholic cannot in a heretical church, 526.
Eastern rite, see Rite. Easterners are bound to observe the pontifical Constitutions concerning absolution of an accomplice and solicitation to shameful things, III 460.
Adornment of women, I 613; adornment produced by the sacraments, III 37; adornment of an altar, 297; adornment of a priest saying Mass, 298.
Orphanage: whether restitution must be made to it if someone secretly places his own child there, II 148.
Kisses, when they are sins, II 693.
Monstrance, see The Lunette of a Monstrance.
Porterhood, what power it confers, III 589; its matter and form, 592; required age, 605; required knowledge, 606.
Idleness: whether, to avoid idleness, it is lawful to perform light labors on feast days, II 496.
Eggs are lawful on fast days, II 663.
Ovariotomy, whether it causes the impediment of impotence or renders the use of matrimony illicit, III 810 note.
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Pact, see Contracts.
The pall necessary for Mass must be made of linen or hemp, at least in that part which touches the chalice, III 299; on the other part it can be covered with ornaments of gold or silk, ib.
A flatterer, who he is and when he is bound to restore damage caused, II 106.
Wheaten bread is the necessary matter of the Eucharist, III 170; unleavened bread is required in the Latin Church and leavened bread in the Eastern Church, 171; only in two cases can a priest of the Latin rite consecrate leavened bread, ib.; the faithful can, even for the sake of devotion alone, receive the Eucharist in either unleavened or leavened bread, ib.; whether crumbs of bread in the pyx are consecrated, 175.
Papal cases, without censure and with censure, III 421; absolution of papal cases, 425; vows reserved to the Pope, II 424.
Sacred vestments, see Sacred Utensils.
Paraphernal goods of a wife, II 17.
Parasceve: whether it is licit on that day to distribute Communion, III 222; it is called an aliturgical day because consecration of a host does not occur, 282; it is not licit to accept a stipend for the Mass of the Presanctified on Parasceve, 233. See also Holy Week.
Parcimonial goods of beneficiaries, II 37.
Parents: their offices toward children, II 585 sqq.; outside a case of necessity they cannot licitly baptize their own offspring, III 122, nor exercise the office of sponsor, 145; how they are bound to repair damage caused by their children, II 110; how they can invalidate the vows of their children, 417; whether their dissent is a sufficient cause for dissolving betrothals, III 718.
Parliament, see Deputies.
Parish priest, what he can do concerning relaxation of an ecclesiastical law, I 244; his exclusive right is to baptize his subjects, III 120; it is not a parochial right to receive children for First Communion, 212; a parish priest is bound on Sundays and feast days to apply Mass for the people entrusted to him, 254; whether military parish priests have the same obligation, ib.; the parish priest's obligation of applying Mass is grave, personal, and local, 258; when he can and ought to binate, 287; a parish priest has ordinary jurisdiction for hearing the confessions of his subjects, which he can therefore hear everywhere on earth, 410; whether military parish priests have ordinary jurisdiction, ib.; a parish priest cannot impose censures by his own authority, 478; the competent parish priest with respect to the celebration of betrothals, 714; with respect to the celebration of matrimony, 757 sqq.
Legitimate portion of an inheritance, what it is, II 273; a testator is not bound to restitution if he has deprived heirs of the legitimate portion, 281.
A participant, either in booty or in an unjust action, how he is bound to restitution, II 108; whether it is sometimes lawful to participate materially in another's damaging action, ib.
Eucharistic particles, see Eucharistic Species. Particles of the Holy Cross, II 386.
Acceleration of birth, when it is lawful, II 137; blessing after childbirth, III 149.
Parvificence as a vice opposed to magnificence, II 640.
Easter Communion is prescribed by a law partly divine and partly ecclesiastical, III 212; parish priests and confessors can in a particular case prolong the time for Easter Communion, ib.; one who without grave cause defers Easter Communion sins gravely, ib.; one who has neglected Easter Communion ought to receive it as soon as possible, ib.; the Easter precept is not satisfied by a sacrilegious Communion, ib.; the place in which Easter Communion ought to be received, ib.; one who has received Viaticum during Easter time is considered to have satisfied the precept of annual Communion, ib.; Easter Communion ordinarily does not suffice for gaining a jubilee, 560; even on Easter Day Communion can be given to laypersons in the churches of religious, 220.
Passion is taken in either an Aristotelian or a Platonic sense, I 72; according to Aristotle there are eleven passions, 73; influence of the passions upon the voluntary, 85.
A pastor of souls is bound from justice to administer the sacraments, III 72; he sins if he shows himself dilatory in administering the sacraments, 73; he is bound by divine law to apply Mass for the flock entrusted to him, 255; who are considered pastors of souls in this matter, ib.; days upon which Mass is to be applied, 256; this obligation is a) grave, b) personal, c) local, 258; only the pastor of souls or his delegate can licitly administer Extreme Unction, 583.
The paten necessary for Mass must be gilded within, III 299; of what material it is to be made, ib.
Father, see Parents.
Doubtful paternity, to what it obliges, II 226.
Pathological states, how they influence the voluntary, I 91 sqq.
Patience is a special and very necessary virtue, II 634; its relation to longanimity, 635; means for obtaining it, 636; opposed vices, 641.
Patrimonial goods of a cleric, II 36.
Patrimony, insofar as it is a title for ordination, III 607.
Sponsors are necessary in baptism, III 144; their office, ib.; their number, ib.; their qualities, 145 sq.; who are excluded from the office of sponsor, ib.; sponsors in confirmation and their qualities, 163; seconds in a duel are excommunicated, II 124.
Patriotism, true or false, II 571.
The Pauline privilege, with respect to dissolution of a legitimate matrimony, III 670; required conditions, 671; necessary interpellation, 673.
The poor, whether they have a strict right to alms, I 589; when they are excused from observance of the Lord's day, II 487, 496; in extreme necessity they can take another's thing, 86; when it is lawful to bestow upon the poor what is to be restored, 233; fictitious poor persons, how they sin, I 598.
Public sinners cannot receive the sacraments, III 79, nor ecclesiastical burial, 503; how a parish priest can assist at their matrimony, III 792; those who live in notorious simultaneous polygamy are considered public sinners, 661.
Sin: its diverse names, I 357; its definition, 358; its formal constituent, 359; its divisions, 360; mortal sin: 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 sin: its essence, 367; existence, 369; its divisions, 370; its effects, 393; 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 the remote matter of penance, see the treatise on penance.
Original sin: in the Old Testament there existed a sacrament for taking away this sin, III 27; in the New Testament it is blotted out through baptism, 109; its remnants are not taken away, 113.
Peculium of clerics: what disposition of it is lawful, II 36; what beneficial peculium is, ib.
Money accepted to conceal a theft or crime, II 110; as the object of a loan for consumption, 284; as a medium of exchange and measure of value in sale, 292; one who uses counterfeit money is bound to restitution, 301.
Peptonum, whether it can be taken on days of abstinence, II 663.
Unjust striking of a cleric or religious is personal sacrilege, II 541; it is punished by excommunication, III 509, 523; striking of parents injures piety, II 571.
A stranger, who he is, I 193; he is not bound by the strictly territorial particular laws of his domicile or quasi-domicile, 194, nor by the territorial laws of the place where he is staying, although there are exceptions, 195; he is bound by the common laws observed in the place of sojourn, 196; he can use the privileges of the place of sojourn, but not of his own domicile, 197; by whom he can be dispensed from laws, 248; absolved from reserved cases, III 429; receive baptism, 120; how he can be struck with censures, 482.
Spiritual perfection, in what it consists and its relation to the state of perfection, I 624.
Danger, see Death, Scandal, Sin, Reputation, Violation of the Seal, Principal, Danger of Civil Matrimony.
Risk to the principal is a title for receiving interest, II 287.
Periodicals, when they are prohibited under excommunication, III 508.
Perjury, what it is, II 456; its malice, 457 sq.
Mixing of foods is lawful, II 654.
A perplexed conscience, I 317; rules to be observed, ib.; a perplexing case, see A Perplexing Case.
Final perseverance, how it falls under merit, I 140; perseverance as a special virtue, II 637; its relation to constancy, ib.; opposed vices, 642.
Pertinacity, insofar as it is a daughter of pride, I 414; insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of perseverance, II 642; insofar as it causes formal heresy, I 514.
Sexual perversion: its diverse modes, II 705 sqq.
An altar stone, see Portable Altar.
Photography: whether it is lawful to practice it on Sundays and feast days, II 490.
Pious causes in a testament, II 277.
Piety is taken in diverse senses, II 569; insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, I 451; as a special virtue it is a certain profession of charity which someone has toward parents and country, II 569; its object, 570; offices of piety, 580 sqq.
Painting with brush or needle, whether it is lawful on feast days, II 490.
Fishing, see Hunting.
Fish: what is understood by the name of fish on days of abstinence, II 663; mixing of foods, that is, the eating of meat and fish on fast days, is permitted, 654.
Plenary indulgences, see Indulgences.
A conventional penalty in a loan for consumption, II 287; whether it must be paid in betrothals, III 709.
Eternal and temporal punishments are all remitted in baptism, III 110; what punishment is in general and ecclesiastical punishment in particular, 469; the cause of an ecclesiastical punishment is an external crime, 470; end of ecclesiastical punishment, ib.; its divisions, 471; list of punishments existing today, 472; who can impose ecclesiastical punishments, 473; who are subject to ecclesiastical punishments, 474; whether a punishment imposed by law must be undergone before the sentence of a judge, I 212.
A penal law: its notion, existence, and obligation, I 209 sqq.
Penance: the diverse acceptations of this name, III 306.
Penance as a virtue is a supernatural quality infused by God, III 307; it has several acts, 308; its proximate subject is the will, 309; its remote subject is every man guilty of sin or at least capable of it, 310; true penance is not found in hell, ib.; its material object is every personal sin, 311; its formal object is an expiable offense against God, 312; the virtue of penance is necessary for a sinner by necessity of means and of precept, 313; the precept of doing penance obliges per se and per accidens, 314; what delay of penance is a grave sin, ib.; resipiscence alone does not suffice for penance, 315.
Penance as a sacrament: existence of this sacrament, III 317; errors concerning its existence, 316; its necessity, 318; its definition, 319; it was instituted by Christ in the form of a judgment, ib.; remote matter, 320; necessary matter, 321; free matter, 322; certain matter, 323; sufficient matter, 324; the proximate matter is the three acts of the penitent, 326; those who think otherwise concerning the proximate matter, 327; essential and rubrical form, 328; obligation of the ceremonies, 329; the effects of the sacrament of penance are the remission of all sins, infusion of sanctifying grace, and reviviscence of merits, 335 sqq.; mutual relation between the sacrament and the virtue of penance, 338; whether the sacrament of penance can be unformed, 353; in the minister of the sacrament of penance there are required the power of order and jurisdiction, 405; the sacrament of penance cannot be validly administered by a layman or even by a non-priest, ib.
Penance as a part of the sacrament, see Satisfaction.
Penances, insofar as they are inflicted by an ecclesiastical superior in the external forum, III 472; penances to be imposed in the execution of matrimonial dispensations, 873.
The Sacred Roman Penitentiary, how it is to be approached for absolution from papal cases, III 426; for obtaining a dispensation from an occult matrimonial impediment, 856, 869.
The penitentiary of a cathedral or collegiate church has ordinary jurisdiction for hearing the confessions of all persons of the diocese, III 409.
Venereal pollution, what it is, II 705; its moral malice, ib.; venereal delectations caused in women, boys, and eunuchs have the malice of pollution, ib.; how nocturnal pollution impedes reception of Communion, III 197.
Pollution of a church or sacred place, when it occurs, II 546.
Simultaneous polyandry directly conflicts with the natural law, III 659.
Simultaneous polygamy is indeed contrary to the original institution of matrimony, but was permitted before the birth of Christ, III 660; after the birth of Christ it is prohibited not only to Christians but to all, ib.; successive polygamy is lawful, 661.
The Roman Pontiff: his legislative power, I 166; his power of declaring divine law, 164, 241; of dispensing from all ecclesiastical laws, 241; of dispensing from and invalidating vows, II 416, 422.
Portable altar, see Altar.
Moral positivism errs concerning the ultimate norm of morality, I 104.
A possessor of another's thing is either in good, bad, or doubtful faith, II 208; who a possessor in good faith is, 209; his rights and obligations, 211 sqq.; who a possessor in bad faith is, 216; his obligations by reason of the thing accepted, fruits, arising damage, and gain ceasing, 217 sqq.; who a possessor in doubtful faith is and his obligations, 221 sqq.
Preambles of faith, what they are, I 486.
A precept, how it is distinguished from a law, I 143.
Precipitation in acting, insofar as it arises from lust, I 420; insofar as it is opposed to prudence, 634.
Booty: whether it is lawful to take it in war, II 47.
A religious prelate, see Superior.
Preparation for Communion, how long it ought to last, III 195.
The Mass of the Presanctified does not admit a stipend, III 233.
Prescription, what it is, II 57; how it is divided, ib.; its efficacy for acquiring dominion, 58; conditions required for legitimate prescription, 59 sqq.; statutes concerning prescription according to certain modern systems of law, 64; whether negative good faith suffices for liberative prescription, 62, 69; whether biennial and other brief prescriptions are valid in conscience, 64; how prescription favors a possessor in good faith, 213.
Presence, what kind is required for hearing Mass, II 477; for consecration of the Eucharist, III 175; for absolution of a penitent, 330.
Presumption can be taken in diverse senses, I 549; insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of hope, ib.; its causes and remedies, ib.; insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, II 639; insofar as it is a daughter of pride, I 412; a law founded on a false presumption, ib. and 216.
Dinner on fast days, at what hour it is to be taken, II 654; how long it can be prolonged, ib.; what foods can be taken, ib.
A bad desire, see Desire.
Precarium, what it is, II 283.
Morning and evening prayers, and prayers before and after meals, whether they oblige, II 348; prayers enriched with indulgences must be recited orally, III 556; what prayers are to be recited for the intention of the Supreme Pontiff, ib.
A priest, as minister of confirmation, what he ought to observe, III 159; as minister of minor orders, 596.
Priesthood: what the essential proximate matter and essential form are, six diverse opinions, III 594; what power it confers, 590; it is an impediment of matrimony even at the point of death, 857.
Price in sale, what it is, II 295; it is either legal, common, or conventional, 296 sqq.; the legal price is to be observed, 296; when it is lawful to sell above the common price, 299; when a conventional price is just, 300; simoniacal price, 555.
Ecclesiastical first fruits, what they are, II 499.
First-first motions, I 38.
Rulers: their obligations, II 599.
Reflex principles of morality, I 332 sqq.
Privilege: its notion, I 263; its divisions, 264; its acquisition, 265; its interpretation, 266; its non-use, 267; its cessation, 268; how those violating the privileges of clerics sin, II 540 sq.
Pauline, see The Pauline Privilege.
Probabiliorism, what it teaches, I 340; reasons for it, 345; difficulties against it, 346.
Pure probabilism, what it teaches, I 342; arguments for it, 349; difficulties against it, 350.
Probability, what it is, I 342; of how many kinds, ib.; when it is certainly not lawful to follow a probable opinion, 333.
Matrimonial banns, see Banns.
A proxy, in the office of sponsor, III 145; in contracting matrimony, 736; in betrothals, 713.
Prodigality, when it becomes a mortal sin, II 616.
Profession of faith, I 485; divine precept of professing the faith, 504 sqq.; who by ecclesiastical law are bound to emit a profession of faith, 506.
Solemn religious profession dirimes ratified matrimony, III 665; it is a diriment impediment, 816.
Offspring, see Sons.
The promise of God, insofar as it is necessary for merit, I 139; it is not the formal object quo of hope, 536; a promise as a gratuitous contract, what it is, II 267; whether it is a sufficient title for occult compensation, 89, 269; obligation of a promise, 268; gravity of this obligation, ib.; cessation, 269; to what the defloration of a virgin under promise of matrimony obliges, 149; promise of future matrimony, see Betrothals; a promissory oath, see Oath; promise of matrimony in the impediment of crime, III 824.
Promulgation of a law: its notion, I 200; necessity, 201; manner, 202.
Pronunciation in the Divine Office, II 376.
The Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, I 172.
Propositions qualified by a theological note, I 518; they are heretical, proximate to heresy, erroneous, rash, etc., ib.
Purpose in the sacrament of penance, what it is, III 354; it is distinguished as explicit and implicit, ib.; at least an implicit purpose is required for the validity of the sacrament, 355; whether an explicit purpose is also required, ib.; the purpose must be firm, efficacious, and universal, 356; general purposes are customarily inefficacious, and therefore a very particular purpose must be elicited, 357.
Property, see Dominion.
Apostolic protonotaries enjoy the privilege of a private oratory, III 295 note.
Providence, insofar as it is a virtue annexed to prudence, I 631.
Prudence, as an intellectual virtue, I 457; as a moral virtue, 625; it is either acquired or infused, 626; dignity and excellence of the virtue of prudence, 629; its acts, 630; its integral parts, 631; its subjective parts, 632; its potential parts, 633; opposed vices, 634 sqq.; means for acquiring prudence, 636.
Puberty, see Those Who Have Not Reached Puberty.
A public sinner, see Public Sinners.
Pudicity is not chastity itself, but a special circumstance of it, II 675; whether it is lawful to kill an invader of pudicity, 122.
Children before the age of seven, see Infants; when they are bound to confession, III 361 sqq.; to Communion, 212; to Extreme Unction, 580.
Puncture of the heart, II 132; of the amnion, II 141.
Purgatory, see Souls.
A purificator is required for Mass, but more probably it is not to be blessed, III 299; it can be supplied by a clean small cloth, ib.
Pusillanimity, insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of magnanimity, II 639; it often arises from acedia, I 435.
The pyx for reserving the Eucharist must be made of solid and becoming material, III 226; it is not to be consecrated, but blessed, ib.; if it contains the Eucharist, it is to be surrounded with a white silk veil, ib.; the lid of the pyx must be removed both at the offertory and at the consecration, 176; whether hosts found in a pyx left outside the corporal through inadvertence are consecrated, 177; when a pyx containing hosts to be consecrated ought to be brought in during Mass, 176.
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Questions to be asked in confession, I 47, II 688, III 367.
Those making profit from Mass stipends are punished, III 273 sq.; those making profit from indulgences and other spiritual favors are excommunicated, 514.
Quasi-domicile, see Domicile.
Quasi-parish priests must apply Mass for the people on eleven days, III 256; they can assist at matrimony, 757.
Quietism: its falsity is demonstrated, I 546.
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The roots of restitution, II 207.
Radio: to listen to heterodox sermons, I 527; to hear Mass, II 477.
Rapine includes a twofold injury: one personal, the other real, II 77.
Abduction, as a sin of lust, II 700; as an impediment of matrimony, III 819; conditions required for this impediment, 820; cessation of this impediment, 821; penalties against abductors of women, 822.
Rationalism constitutes an insufficient norm of morality, I 102.
Liability to punishment for mortal sin, I 392; for venial sin, 393.
Rebaptization, when it is necessary, III 123, 128 (Scholion), 138.
Rebellion, see Sedition.
A relapsing sinner, who is so called in the strict sense, III 453; he cannot regularly be absolved unless by special signs he has first removed the presumption of indisposition existing against him, ib.; what special signs of sufficient disposition are, ib.; sometimes absolution must be deferred for him, ib.
Reconciliation with an enemy is necessary, I 577; reconciliation of an altar and church, III 294 and 296; of a cemetery, III 503.
Recourse: how those furnishing recourse to a thief are bound to restitution, II 107.
to the Sacred Penitentiary or to a bishop having special faculties is necessary after absolution from reserved cases has been given in an urgent case or in danger of death, III 426; if, however, it is morally impossible, it can be omitted, ib.; a priest who is a penitent is never freed from recourse, ib.
to the lay power in order to impede Apostolic Letters induces excommunication, III 511.
Reduction of Masses is reserved to the Holy See, III 261.
The single meal on days of fasting, II 653; its hour, 654.
Reflex principles, how they can be employed for resolving a practical doubt, I 332.
Regulars: upon whom the obligation of reciting the canonical hours chorally or privately is incumbent, II 367; what calendar they ought to use, 369; how they can administer Communion or Viaticum to their subjects lying ill outside the monastery, III 219; they can give Viaticum and Extreme Unction to their pupils dwelling in their boarding schools, ib. and 583; they can distribute Communion even to laymen on Easter day, 219; they are bound to observe the diocesan rate for manual Masses, but not for founded Masses, 270; they need the jurisdiction of the diocesan bishop, 415; they can hear the confessions of all perpetual members of their household without the bishop's approval, 410; they can licitly be absolved by any confessor approved by the local bishop, even from cases reserved within the Order, 416; generally they are not subject to censures imposed by the bishop, 482; they can absolve from censures reserved by law to the bishop, 521; they can dispense in vows (with certain exceptions), II 425; in many irregularities, III 613; they cannot be sponsors, 147; a religious superior, see Superior.
Reincidence: absolution from censures with reincidence, III 491.
Repetition of sacraments, see Repetition and Rebaptization.
Religion: its etymology, II 324; its diverse acceptations, ib.; insofar as it is a virtue, 325; its subject, 326; its necessity, 327; its extension, ib.; the principal acts of religion are devotion, prayer, adoration, sacrifice, the use of the sacraments, a vow, an oath, adjuration, and the sanctification of certain days: see the individual words; vices opposed to the virtue of religion, 500 sqq.
Religious, see Regulars.
The Sacred Congregation placed over the affairs of religious, I 171.
Relics of the saints, how they are to be venerated, II 387.
Remedies against scruples, I 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; remedies to be prescribed by a confessor against a relapse into sin, III 436; so-called penal remedies, 472.
Renewal of the Eucharistic species, III 171.
Festive rest prescribed on Sundays and feast days, what it requires, II 488 sqq.; excusing causes, 495.
Reservation of cases, what it is, III 418; it primarily affects the confessor, ib.; there are reserved censures and reserved sins, 419; purpose of reservation, 420; to what persons the power of reserving cases belongs, 421; conditions required for reservation, 422; how ignorance excuses from reservation, 423; absolution from reserved cases at the point of death, 424; absolution from papal cases, 425; absolution from episcopal cases, 427; what is to be done if a simple confessor through inadvertence absolves from a reserved case, 428; absolution of travelers from reserved cases, 429; how regulars can be absolved from cases reserved within the Order, 416; sometimes aggravating circumstances must be accused because of an attached reservation, 370.
Restitution, what restitution for violated justice is, II 202; how it differs from satisfaction and from payment, ib.; it arises from commutative justice alone when violated, 203; whether material restitution is to be made for merely personal damage, 204; necessity of restitution, 205; the precept of making restitution is a negative precept, 206; the roots of restitution are another's thing either possessed or damaged, 207; measure of restitution, 223; order of restitution to be made by cooperators, 227; to whom restitution is to be made, 228 sqq.; at what time, 237; in what place, 238; in what manner, 240; causes wholly exempting from restitution, 241; causes excusing for a time, 243; restitution to be made to wicked societies, 229; to the commonwealth, 230; to an insurance company, 231; after a fraudulent cession of goods, 232; on account of taxes defrauded, I 294; on account of military service evaded, 295 sqq.; on account of a duel, II 128; on account of defloration and adultery, 147 sqq.; on account of neglect of the Divine Office, 364 sq.; restitution of a simoniacal price, II 565.
Mental restriction, what it is and how it is distinguished, II 171; purely mental restriction is never licit, but when necessity demands it, it is lawful to employ broadly mental restriction, 172 sq.
Retention of prohibited books, when it induces excommunication, III 508.
Retraction of an evil command or counsel given, II 101 sq.; of an imposed calumny, 197.
An accused person, whether he must confess his own crime, II 163; how he can defend himself, ib.; his flight, 164; as regards undergoing penalties, ib.
Revalidation, see Convalidation.
Revelation of a secret, when it is licit, II 180; revelation of an accomplice in confession, III 381; of an impediment of matrimony, 730.
Reverence, what it is and how it differs from honor, II 182; reverence due to God and sacred things, 325; to parents, 582; to masters, 596; to a ruler, 600.
Reverential fear, III 746.
Reviviscence of the sacraments, what it is, III 41; which sacraments revive, 42; required conditions, 43; manner and degree of the reviviscence of merits through the sacrament of penance, 337.
Revocation of a law, I 270; of a dispensation, 259; of a privilege, 268; of a custom, 282; of a testament, II 279; of jurisdiction, III 412.
Rigorism, see Tutiorism.
Rites to be observed in administering the sacraments and in celebrating Mass, see Ceremonies; it is lawful to receive Holy Communion according to another rite approved by the Church, III 214; rites, that is, liturgical offices, which are prohibited to the excommunicated, 501; Catholics of an Oriental rite contracting matrimony among themselves are not bound by the form prescribed for Westerners, 754; but if they contract with a Catholic of the Latin rite, they are bound by it, ib.
The Sacred Congregation of Rites, I 174.
A brawl, what it is, I 431; it is customarily born of anger, ib.
The Pope of Rome, see The Roman Pontiff.
Rubrics, how they are distinguished and oblige in the administration of the sacraments, III 70; in Mass, 303 sqq.
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On Holy Saturday the baptismal font is to be blessed, III 100; private Masses are most strictly prohibited, III 283; Holy Communion may then be distributed even for the sake of devotion, ib.; after noon the fast and abstinence cease, II 658.
A chapel, see Oratory.
A priest, as minister of confirmation, what he ought to observe, III 159; his obligation of celebrating Mass, 251.
Sacramentals, what they are, III 89; how they are distinguished, 90; their effects, 91; their manner of operating, 92; they differ from indulgences, 93; the use of sacramentals is not prohibited to the excommunicated and heretics, 500.
Sacramental grace, what it is, III 40.
A sacrament: the name sacrament is taken in diverse senses, III 2; its real definition, 3 s.; there existed true but imperfect sacraments in the Old Law, 3; all sacraments are in the genus of sign, 4; the sacraments signify grace to be given, the Passion of Christ, and eternal life, ib.; not all sacred signs are sacraments, 5; false opinions of heretics and Modernists concerning the nature of a sacrament, ib.; for the essence of every sacrament three things are required: a sensible sign, interior grace, and institution by Jesus Christ, ib.; outside a case of extreme necessity it is not lawful to employ doubtful matter and form in the sacraments, 18; existence of the sacraments, 26 sqq.; in the Old Law, 27; number of the sacraments in the Old and New Law, 28 sq.; divisions, 33; dignity of the diverse sacraments, 34; causality, 37; sacraments of the dead cause second grace per accidens, and sacraments of the living produce first grace per accidens, 40; all the sacraments were immediately instituted by Christ, 49; the matter and form of the sacraments were specifically determined by Christ, 50; manner and rite of conferring the sacraments, 70; obligation of giving and denying the sacraments, 70 sqq.; it is not lawful to administer the sacraments to an unworthy person except for a most grave cause, 76; simulation and dissimulation, 81 sqq.; when the validity of the sacraments is in question, ordinarily it is not lawful to follow probable opinions, 85; requirements for the valid and licit reception of the sacraments, 87 sq.; which sacraments the excommunicated are prohibited from receiving and administering, 500.
The Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments, I 169.
Sacrifice: difference between sacrifice and the sacraments, III 5; essential notion, 229; conditions required for a true sacrifice, 230; see also Mass.
Sacrilege: its nominal and real definition, II 536 sq.; it is distinguished as personal, local, and real, 538; its malice, 539; in how many ways personal sacrilege is committed, 540 sqq.; when violation of a vow is sacrilege, 544; how local sacrilege is committed, 545 sqq.; how real sacrilege is committed, 551 sqq.; carnal sacrilege, 702; an ecclesiastical precept is not satisfied by a sacrilegious Communion, III 212, nor by a sacrilegious confession, 362; the divine precept of receiving Viaticum is not satisfied by a sacrilegious Communion, 208.
Sadism, II 705.
An indult of secularization, what it contains, II 424.
Salary, see Wages.
Dancing, see Dances.
Greeting an enemy, when it is necessary, I 576.
Radical sanation of matrimony, what it is, III 878 sq.; four required conditions, 880 sqq.; its petition and execution, 882; its effect, 883.
The sanctification of the Lord's day and feasts, what precepts it includes, II 467.
Invocation of the saints is useful, II 344.
Wisdom, insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, I 447; insofar as it is an intellectual virtue, 457.
Sapphism, II 705.
Congruous satisfaction can be exacted from an enemy, I 577; how satisfaction is to be rendered for injured honor, II 185; a duel is a means altogether unfit for obtaining due satisfaction, 123.
- as a part of the sacrament of penance: what satisfaction is in general, III 391; what the satisfaction rendered by Christ is and avails, ib.; what sacramental and extrasacramental satisfaction are, ib.; what the end of sacramental satisfaction is according to the Council of Trent, ib.; divisions of sacramental satisfaction, 393; necessity of imposing satisfaction, 394; gravity of this obligation of imposing it, 395; quantity and quality of the satisfaction to be imposed, 396; causes for diminishing satisfaction, 397; incongruous satisfactions, 398; a penitent is bound of himself under grave sin to accept and fulfill satisfaction reasonably imposed by the confessor, 399; what a penitent ought to do if he has forgotten the satisfaction imposed, 401; time and manner of fulfilling satisfaction, 402 sq.; who can commute sacramental satisfaction, 404; a salutary penance to be imposed in matrimonial dispensations, 873.
The satisfaction of Christ and the saints is the treasury from which the Church bestows indulgences, III 541.
Scandal, what it is, I 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.; scandal to be avoided as a sufficient cause for breaking the Eucharistic fast, III 201; for excuse from the material integrity of confession, 380; for obtaining a dispensation from a matrimonial impediment, 864.
A certificate of completed confession is not to be refused although absolution was not granted, III 447; a certificate of Easter Communion, 212.
Schismatics, who they are, I 509; it is lawful to apply Mass for them, III 250; excommunication against schismatics, 507; if they contract among themselves, they are not bound to observe the Catholic form of betrothals or matrimony, 754.
Schools ought to be diligently supervised by bishops, I 528; when non-Catholic and neutral schools can licitly be attended, ib.; when it is lawful to undertake the office of teacher or another office in the same schools, ib.
Knowledge of moral theology, what it is, I 2; the gift of knowledge, 449; the intellectual virtue of knowledge, 457; knowledge necessary in a judge, II 153; in an advocate, 160; in a confessor, III 432; in those to be ordained, 606; it is not lawful to use knowledge obtained from confession, 448.
Writing by hand or by machine, whether it is a servile work, II 490; whether someone is bound to write down sins lest they fall from memory, III 365, 384; valid betrothals must be in writing, 713.
Sacred Scripture, how it is a source of moral theology, I 5; to publish it or commentaries upon it without legitimate authority is punished with excommunication, III 524.
A scrupulous conscience: its signs, causes, and remedies, I 319 sqq.; privileges of the scrupulous, 323.
Scurrility, what it is, I 427; it often arises from gluttony, ib.
A secret, taken objectively and subjectively, II 175; divisions, ib.; when it is lawful to investigate another's secret, 176; it is not lawful to use a secret unjustly learned, ib.; how the obligation of preserving a secret binds, 177; just causes for manifesting a secret, 180; the secret of confession, see The Seal; the secret of the Holy Office, III 494.
Prohibited sects, with or without a censure, III 516.
A Caesarean section is licit for saving offspring, II 135; no strict obligation of undergoing a Caesarean section is incumbent upon the mother, III 130; whether it must be performed when the mother has died, ib.
The afterbirth: baptism conferred upon the afterbirth is invalid, III 102.
Sedition is illicit, II 601 sq.
Human semen poured out in a sacred place, II 546; how a flow of semen impedes the reception of Communion, III 197.
The half-witted, as regards Communion, III 189; as regards confession, 361.
Semi-full advertence, see Advertence.
An old person, when excused from fasting, II 665; whether he can receive Extreme Unction, III 580.
One deprived of the senses, as regards absolution, III 327; as regards Extreme Unction, 577.
Separation of spouses, when it is lawful, see Divorce.
Ecclesiastical burial, to whom it is forbidden, III 503; how a sacred place is polluted by the burial of an excommunicated person, ib.; those commanding or compelling heretics, excommunicated persons, or interdicted persons to be given ecclesiastical burial are excommunicated, 525; to sell ecclesiastical burial is sometimes simony, II 564.
Sequestration, what it is, II 283; those sequestering goods and revenues belonging to ecclesiastical persons are excommunicated, III 518.
Immodest discourses, II 696 and III 460.
Servile works, which are prohibited on Sundays and feast days, II 488, 492; the precept of abstaining from servile works admits parvity of matter, 494; causes excusing from this precept, 495; who can dispense in it, 498.
Servile condition as an impediment of matrimony, III 744.
A server is required at Mass under grave obligation, III 304; when a male server is lacking, it is lawful to celebrate Mass if a woman, especially a nun, makes the responses, ib.
Servitude, under what conditions it is licit, II 11.
Sexual perversion, what it is, II 707.
The sacramental seal, what it is, III 443; subject of the seal, that is, those who are bound to it, ib.; object of the seal, 444; the sacramental seal binds most strictly and admits no exception, 445 sqq.; penalties against those violating the seal, ib.; in what ways it is violated, 447; danger of violating the seal excuses from the material integrity of confession, 380.
A sensible sign in the sacraments, III 6; common signs to be shown to enemies, I 575; extraordinary signs of contrition, III 450.
Simony: its nominal and real definition, II 555 sq.; its divisions, 558; its moral malice, 560; when simony of divine law occurs, 561 sqq.; of ecclesiastical law, 564 sqq.; penalties of simoniacs, 565.
Simulation, what it is, II 168; it is reduced to a lie, ib. See also Fiction of the sacraments.
Simultaneous use of heterodox worship in some church can be tolerated by the bishop, I 526.
Sincerity in confession, III 364.
Sobriety as a special virtue, II 668.
Socialists: what their demands are, II 5; whether their sects are prohibited under excommunication, III 516.
Prohibited societies, see Sects.
Sodomy, what it is and how it is divided, II 706; it is called a sin crying to heaven, I 360.
In solidum: what an obligation of restitution in solidum is, II 223.
Solemnity of vows is either essential or accidental, II 391; solemnities of nuptials prohibited during the closed time, III 771.
Shrewdness, insofar as it is an integral part of prudence, I 631.
Solicitation to shameful things in confession: what conditions are required for this crime, III 461 sqq.; obligation of denouncing a solicitor, 464; causes excusing from this obligation, 465; manner of making the denunciation, 466; how a bishop ought to proceed after receiving the denunciation, ib.; penalties against solicitors, 467; penalty inflicted upon one denouncing calumniously, 468.
Sisters, see Regulars.
Risk to the principal is a sufficient title for receiving interest, II 287.
Sortilege, what it is and when it is licit, II 509.
The Eucharistic species, insofar as they contain the Body and Blood of Christ, constitute the essence of the sacrament of the Eucharist, III 166; if these species are dissolved in the mouth or removed from the mouth, the effect of the Eucharist is not produced, 185; it is not lawful in the Latin Church to give Viaticum under the species of wine, 223; concerning Communion under both species, 214; when it is licit even in the Latin Church, ib.; one who casts away or retains the Eucharistic species is excommunicated, 506.
- The lowest species of sins, whence it is derived, I 373 sq.; it must be accused in confession, III 367.
Shows very often cause grave scandal, I 615 and II 697.
Hope, what it is as a passion, I 80; as a theological virtue, 533; object of theological hope, 535; the formal object quo is assisting omnipotence, 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 an unformed virtue, 476.
Spiritism: its notion, II 524; its morality, 525.
Spiritual relationship, insofar as it is an impediment of matrimony, III 848; required conditions, 850; cessation of this impediment, 851.
Betrothals: their essence, III 706 sqq.; for their validity a due external form is required, 707, 713; a free promise, 708; whether error and fear invalidate betrothals, ib.; a deliberate and mutual promise, 710; both natural and legal capacity, 711; their effect is the obligation of entering matrimony, 715; their dissolution can be effected by mutual consent, 717; by a notable supervening change, 718; by violation of the betrothal pledge, 719; by choice of a more perfect state, 720; by pontifical dispensation, 721; whether it is lawful by private authority to dissolve betrothals, 722.
A wager as a contract, what it is, II 315; its liceity and obligations, ib.
An illegitimate son, who he is, III 884.
The state of grace is required for merit, I 140; for praying efficaciously, II 354; for licitly receiving the sacraments of the living, III 88; for gaining indulgences, 551; the state of grace and probity of life in one to be ordained, 604.
- free: moral certainty concerning it is required before receiving orders, III 602; before celebrating matrimony, 766.
The state of original justice had no sacraments, III 26.
of perfection includes the three evangelical counsels, I 624; how it is related to spiritual perfection itself, ib.
pathological states, insofar as they are opposed to the voluntary, I 91 sqq.
of life: children are free by natural law itself in the choice of a state of life, II 585.
Artificial sterilization is illicit, II 6; whether it is an impediment of matrimony, III 798 sq., note 56.
A Mass stipend: its origin, III 262; liceity, 263; obligation from a stipend accepted, 264; it is not lawful to receive a stipend for the Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday, 233, nor for the most special fruit of the Mass applied, 243 (3); special circumstances commanded by the one offering the stipend are to be faithfully fulfilled, 266 sqq.; within what time manual Masses are to be said, 266; how the diocesan rate is to be observed in stipends, 270; what is to be observed in transferring superfluous stipends, 271; trafficking in stipends is altogether prohibited, 273; nothing may be deducted from stipends received, 274; nevertheless, there are certain exceptions, 275; no stipend can be accepted by a priest having the privilege of bination for the second Mass unless special permission is present, 257, 288; whether the stipend must be restored under grave obligation if the Mass was not said, 264; whether a priest is bound to say a Mass if the stipend was lost without his fault, ib., note; for a Mass which newly ordained priests celebrate with the bishop, they probably cannot receive a stipend, 278.
A stock in consanguinity, III 831; the base of an altar, 296.
A stole to be worn by priests and deacons receiving Communion, III 196; how it is necessary in the celebration of Mass, 298; in the administration of the sacrament of penance, 329; how a deacon ought to wear the stole in the distribution of Communion, 217; the stole must always be worn in the administration of Communion to the sick or of Viaticum, 223 (7).
Washing out the stomach probably does not violate the Eucharistic fast, III 199.
The Sacred Congregation of Studies, I 177.
Studiousness, insofar as it is a potential part of the virtue of temperance, II 716; curiosity is opposed to it by excess, ib.; negligence by defect, ib.
Defloration, what it is, II 699; how it induces an obligation of restitution, 147 sqq., 226.
To counsel evil or a lesser evil, see A Counselor.
Subdelegation of assistance in the celebration of matrimony, III 761; in the celebration of betrothals, 714.
The subdiaconate, what power it confers, III 590; its matter and form, 593; required age, 605; required knowledge, 606; it induces the obligation of reciting the Divine Office, II 363; of preserving celibacy, and indeed by force of a vow, 391 and III 813; it can be conferred by a priest, 596; how a subdeacon ministering at a solemn Mass in the state of mortal sin sins, 59.
An auction, II 302.
Subjectivism is a false system of morality, I 103.
Subreption in a dispensation, I 256.
Mockery, what it is, II 183.
Hereditary succession is either intestate or by testament, II 273.
A vote: how those giving a vote for a bad representative sin, II 105, 604; how representatives sin and are bound to restitution when giving a vote for the enactment of unjust laws, ib.; whether the right of voting is to be granted to women, 594; application of indulgences by way of suffrage, III 543.
Suicide: its malice, II 112; causes, ib.; when indirect suicide is licit, 113; whether it is lawful for one to kill himself in order to avoid a harsher death, 114; whether a virgin can choose death rather than her violation, 115.
Sumptuousness is a vice opposed to magnificence, II 640.
Sacred furnishings for Mass, III 297.
The advanced age of a bride as a cause for obtaining a dispensation, III 862.
Pride, what it is, I 409; its malice, 410; pride is a most dangerous vice, ib.; its daughters, 411; remedies, 415; how it causes vehement danger to faith, 532.
A superior, who can enact laws, I 179; when he must repair damage caused by a subject, II 101, 109; a superior who does not impede the defamation of his subject sins, 195; a superior from whom the faculty of absolving from a particular reserved case is sought is bound to the seal, III 443; he cannot use knowledge obtained from confession for external government, 445 sq.
- a religious superior customarily has quasi-episcopal power, and therefore can exercise almost the same acts over his subjects as a bishop over his diocesans, I 243; he has ordinary jurisdiction for hearing the confessions of subjects, III 410; he can indeed reserve cases to himself, but cannot prevent subjects from seeking absolution from any approved confessor, 416; he must sometimes apply Mass for his subjects, III 255.
Superstition, what it is, II 501; its species, ib.; insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of faith, I 509.
The Church supplies putative jurisdiction when common error exists, III 413.
The deaf-mute, as regards receiving Communion, III 189; as regards making confession, 365; as regards gaining indulgences, 556.
A deaf person, or one hard of hearing, as regards confession, III 365; as regards irregularity, 616; as regards the office of witness in betrothals and matrimony, 765; as regards recitation of the Breviary with a companion, II 374.
Suspension, what it is, III 531; properly and broadly so called, ib.; divisions, ib.; its effects, 532; cessation, 533; suspensions in force today, 534 sqq.; suspension of graces during a jubilee, 562.
Rash suspicion, what it is, II 199; one who remains hardened in a censure for a year incurs suspicion of heresy, III 505; when one falsely transferring suspicion of a crime to another is bound to restitution, II 95.
Support due to a wife, II 16; to beneficed clerics, 37; to children, even illegitimate, 586, 588.
Whispering, what it is, II 188; it is reduced to detraction, ib.; it often arises from envy, I 423.
A creed of faith, I 485; how the Apostles' Creed must be known, 501.
Symphysiotomy, what it is, II 135.
Synderesis, what it is, I 302.
Synesis, insofar as it is a potential part of prudence, I 633.
Moral systems for obtaining moral certainty when a doubt exists, I 337 sqq.; the system of compensation, 344, 351.
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Tobacco smoked, taken through the nostrils, or even chewed does not violate the natural fast, III 199.
A schedule of founded Masses is to be displayed in the sacristy, III 276; the altar cards customarily placed upon the altar are not strictly prescribed, 297.
The tabernacle of the Most Holy Sacrament, how it is to be constructed and adorned, III 226; nothing other than the Eucharist may be reserved in it, ib.; a lamp is to burn there, 227.
Turning tables, whether they can be employed, II 521.
Obscene touches, how they are sinful, II 694; to whom touching the sacred vessels is lawful, III 300; touching the instruments in sacred ordination, 592 sq.
The diocesan rate to be observed in Mass stipends, III 270; the rate in matrimonial dispensations, 868.
The telegraph, see The telephone.
The telephone, whether it can be employed for absolving from sins, III 331; for obtaining matrimonial dispensations, 869.
A rash judgment, what it is, II 200; its malice, ib.; one conceived only internally is rarely a mortal sin, ib.; what rash propositions are, I 518; rashness as a vice opposed to fortitude, II 638; rash expectation of special divine assistance is temptation of God, 527.
Temperance, as a condition of every virtue and as a special virtue, II 643; its object, 644; relation between natural and supernatural temperance, 645; its integral parts, 646; subjective parts, 647; potential parts, 648; opposed vices, 667 sqq.
Churches of heretics: when it is lawful to enter them, I 527; to build them or assist them with money, 620.
Time for fulfilling laws, I 225; required for legitimate prescription, II 63; assigned for reciting the canonical hours, 373; the Easter time for receiving Communion, III 212; time for distributing Communion, 221; the circumstance of time in fulfilling Mass stipends, 266; how much time is to be employed for the celebration of Mass, 292; the time of a concealed sin, 364; the circumstance of a sacred time is not of itself necessarily to be manifested in confession, 372; time for performing ordinations, 599; the closed time as regards the celebration of matrimony, 772.
Temptation is taken in diverse senses, I 385; temptation to sin arises from diverse causes, 386; to consent to temptation is a sin, but not to feel it, 387; it is not lawful rashly to provoke temptation, 388; remedies against temptations, 389; temptation of God, in what it consists, II 527; its divisions, ib.; malice, 528.
Tepidity, see Acedia.
A testament: its diverse forms, II 276; validity of an informal testament, 277; it is not lawful secretly to supply the defect of legal form, ib.; acceptance of a testament, 278; its revocation, 279; commutation, ib.; interpretation, ib.
A testator: to whom the right of making a testament belongs, II 274; manner of making a testament, 275; obligations of a testator, 281.
Testimonial letters, what they are, III 597; for whom they are necessary for receiving orders, 597; concerning the free status of those about to marry, 723; concerning baptism received before nuptials, ib.; concerning an ordination performed, III 624.
A certificate of Easter Communion and confession, see A certificate of completed confession.
A witness: obligation of giving testimony in court, II 160; excuses from giving testimony, ib.; fault of false testimony, ib.; obligations of a false witness, 161; in an oath God is invoked as a witness of truthfulness, 437; a heretic can be a witness at a Catholic baptism, III 145; witnesses necessary in betrothals, 713; in the celebration of matrimony, 765; whether a Catholic can be a witness at a heretical baptism or matrimony, I 526.
The theater, see Shows.
Moral theology: its nominal definition, I 1; real definition, 2; end, 3; in the strict sense it cannot be called an art, page 3, note 2; its relation to ethics and dogmatic theology, 4; its sources, 5 sqq.; on the use of reason in moral theology, 8; method to be employed, 9; history of moral theology, 10 sqq.
Theological fault in causing damage, II 92, 96.
Treasure, what it is, II 45; to whom dominion of found treasure belongs, 46; whether civil laws concerning the finding of treasure are merely penal, ib.; whether it is lawful to buy at the ordinary price a field in which treasure is hidden, ib.
Condemned theses, see Propositions.
St. Thomas Aquinas: his authority, Volume I, Prologue; what method he employed in moral theology, I 11.
Timidity, insofar as it is the passion of fear, I 83; insofar as it is a vice opposed to fortitude, II 638.
Fear, insofar as it is a passion, I 83; insofar as it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, 453; insofar as it is joined with the virtue of hope, 542; fear of hell in attrition, III 342 sqq.; reverential fear in matrimony, III 746.
Title: diverse distinctions, II 62; what kind is necessary for legitimate prescription, ib.; what kind suffices for receiving interest or interesse, 287; no title is required in order that the Church supply putative jurisdiction, III 413; the title by which a bishop becomes proper for conferring orders, 597; the title of support for clerics in major orders, 607.
An altar cloth made of linen or hemp and blessed is required on an altar where Mass is said, III 297.
Religious tolerance, I 511.
The first clerical tonsure is not an order, III 587; it disposes one for receiving orders and produces several other juridical effects, 591; required age, 605; required knowledge, 606.
Torture of animals, what kind of sin it is, II 14.
Tradition: its use in moral theology, I 6.
Tribadism, II 705.
Tributes, what they are, I 288; divisions, 289; just laws of tribute bind in conscience, 290; whether from commutative or legal justice, 293; when an obligation of restitution arises from defrauding tributes, 294; to defraud ecclesiastical tributes is contrary to religion and justice, II 499.
The Most Holy Trinity, whether it must be explicitly believed by necessity of means, I 499; it must necessarily be expressed in the form of baptism, III 103; no adult can be baptized who has not known at least summarily the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, III 136.
The triple contract, what it is, II 288, note 3.
Sadness, insofar as it is a passion, I 79; sadness at another's good is envy, 421; sadness at spiritual good is acedia, 433.
Truncation of words, what kind of sin it is in the recitation of the Divine Office, II 374; in the form of the sacraments, III 13 sq.
A trust is a species of monopoly; see Monopoly.
A disgraceful condition in a contract, II 253; in contracting matrimony, III 663; disgraceful touches, looks, kisses, conversation, and reading, II 691 sqq.
Absolute or mitigated tutiorism as moral systems, I 338 sq.
A printer, when he incurs excommunication, III 508.
Tyrannicide is unlawful, II 602.
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Anointing in confirmation must necessarily be made on the forehead and by the sign of the cross, III 156.
- Extreme Unction: comparison between it and confirmation, III 568; notion, 569; it is a true sacrament of the New Testament, 570; its valid remote matter, 571; licit matter, 572; proximate matter, 573; manner of making the anointings, 574; form of Extreme Unction, 575; it is necessarily deprecatory, ib.; effects, 576; the moment at which Extreme Unction produces its effects, 579; subject, or who can receive Extreme Unction, 580; obligation of receiving this sacrament, 581; its repetition, 582; minister of this sacrament, 583.
Anointing in ordination, 595.
A unilateral contract, II 250.
The moral union necessary between the matter and form of the sacraments, III 16 sqq.
The unity of matrimony, III 669 sqq.
Small cruets, insofar as they are the matter of the acolytate, III 592; see also Cruets of water and wine.
More urgent cases for absolving, III 425; for dispensing, I 245.
Usucaption, II 57.
Usury, what it is, II 285; usury properly so called is contrary to natural, divine, and ecclesiastical law, 286; extrinsic causes or titles permitting interest or usury broadly so called, 287 sq.
Usurpation of ecclesiastical goods, what it is and how it is punished, III 512, 518; it is sacrilege, II 554.
- of sacred order is punished by irregularity, III 622.
Active and passive use in a human act, I 34; use as a species of dominion, II 3; when the use of knowledge obtained from confession is unlawful, III 445 sq.
Usufruct as a species of dominion, II 3.
Sacred utensils for Mass, III 297; they are: the adornment of the altar, ib.; the vestments of the priest saying Mass, 298; sacred vessels, 299; how these things lose their blessing or consecration, 301.
The uterus: whether its excision causes the impediment of impotence or renders the use of matrimony unlawful, III 799, note 56; whether an infant in the maternal womb is to be baptized, 129.
Utilitarianism constitutes a false norm of morality, I 101.
Utility: whether it is lawful to increase the price of a thing to be sold which is very useful to another, II 294.
A wife: her goods, II 17; her dominion according to the codes of certain nations, 18 sqq.; thefts of a wife, 83; whether a husband can directly invalidate the vows of his wife, 418; whether a wife can cooperate materially in the onanism of her husband, III 701 sq.
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Vacant goods, II 39.
Vagrants, who they are, I 193; how they are bound by territorial laws, 198; for obtaining dispensations they must have recourse to the superior of the place in which they are here and now staying, 247; as regards baptism, III 120; as regards absolution from reserved cases, 429; as regards nuptial proclamations, 728; as regards the celebration of matrimony, 769.
The value of a thing, see Price.
Vain observance, see Observance; the vain taking of the name of God and of other sacred things, what kind of sin it is, II 535.
Sacred vessels necessary for Mass, III 299; touching them, 300; how they are execrated, ib. and 301; to employ sacred vessels for profane use outside a case of the gravest necessity is sacrilege, II 553.
Vasectomy, what it is, whether it is lawful, and whether it induces the impediment of impotence, III 798.
Tolls, see Tributes.
Fare for a public conveyance: when defrauding it obliges to restitution, II 85.
Hunting can be prohibited and reserved by the ruler of a territory, II 42; a law prohibiting hunting is not a merely penal law, ib.; when hunting unlawfully performed is a mortal sin, ib.; when an obligation of restitution arises, 43; prevailing customs concerning hunting are to be attended to, 44; whether hunting is lawful on feast days, 497.
Sale: what a contract of purchase and sale is, II 290; obligations of the seller, 291 sq.; whether a seller can sometimes diminish weight or measure, 293; sale at auction, 300; through brokers, 302.
Venereal delectation, what it is, II 681; directly willed outside matrimony, it is a mortal sin from its whole genus, 682; indirectly willed, it admits slightness of matter, 683.
Venial sin: its notion and intimate nature, I 367; its existence, 369; its divisions, 370; its effects, 393; whether damage that is venially evil induces an obligation of restitution, II 97; whether one guilty only of venial sin is bound to annual confession, III 361.
Truthfulness is taken in diverse senses, II 165; excellence and offices of the virtue of truthfulness, ib.; vices opposed to it, ib.
To beat, whether a private man can lawfully beat another, II 119.
Shamefacedness is not a virtue properly so called, but a laudable passion, II 646; it is the guardian of chastity, ib.
Verification of petitions in dispensations, III 872.
Truths of faith to be necessarily and explicitly believed, I 499, III 436.
Evening prayers, see Prayers.
Sacred vestments in the administration of the sacraments, see the individual sacraments; at Mass, III 298; the cassock to be worn for Mass, ib.; the garment to be employed in hearing confessions, 329; immodest clothing of a woman, I 613.
The prohibition of the Church insofar as it affects matrimony, III 793.
The Old Testament: how its moral, ceremonial, and judicial precepts bind, I 163.
Harassment of animals, II 14.
Viaticum: whether a pastor of souls must administer it with danger to his own life, III 73; the insane can receive Viaticum, 188; Viaticum can be received by one who is not fasting, 202; while the danger of death endures, a sick person can receive Viaticum on any day, ib.; Viaticum in the article of death is to be received by divine law, 208; this precept is not satisfied by a sacrilegious reception, ib.; whether one who received Communion from devotion a little before and is suddenly placed in danger of death is bound to receive Viaticum, 209; how Viaticum is to be given to children, 211; whether, when a priest and deacon are lacking, a cleric or even a layman can administer Viaticum, 217; to administer Viaticum is a parochial right, 219; when religious can administer Viaticum, ib.
An Apostolic Vicar is bound to apply Mass for the flock committed to him, III 256.
A Capitular Vicar is bound to apply Mass for the people, III 256.
A Vicar General has ordinary jurisdiction, III 411.
A parochial vicar as regards assistance at matrimony, 757.
A widow, when she sins by rejoicing over the use of matrimony in the past, I 401; the poverty of a widow is a canonical cause for obtaining a matrimonial dispensation, III 863.
The bond of matrimony, how it is dissolved, III 665 sqq.
Vindication insofar as it is a special virtue, II 610; opposed vices, 611.
Vindicative justice can be reduced to either legal, distributive, or commutative justice, II 71, note.
To take vengeance is never lawful, I 574.
Wine from the vine is the necessary matter in the sacrament of the Eucharist, III 172; wine from which all alcohol has been removed is not suitable matter, ib.; it is lawful to add 17-18 percent spirit of wine to weak wine, 173; a small amount of water must be mixed with wine to be consecrated, ib.; whether droplets of wine adhering within or without to the sides of the chalice are consecrated, 175; Viaticum must never be administered under the species of wine alone, 223.
Violence or the violent, what it is, I 63; violence can be inflicted upon an external act, but not upon an internal act of the will, 64 sq.; whether a woman violently oppressed is bound to suffer death rather than her own violation, 66; whether she herself can kill the invader, II 122; what kind of sin the violent oppression of a woman is, 699 sq.; whether betrothals can be dissolved if the betrothed woman has been oppressed by force, III 719; how the violent laying of hands upon clerics, etc., is punished, III 506, 511, and 523, and II 541; violence insofar as it is a daughter of avarice, I 418.
A divining rod: whether its use is lawful, II 511.
Virginity is taken either for integrity of the flesh, for the state of celibacy, or for a moral virtue, II 677; whether a vow is required for the virtue of virginity, ib.; excellence of the virtue of virginity, 678; how virginity is lost, 677; the vow of virginity insofar as it is an impeding impediment of matrimony, III 780.
A virgin, whether she can choose death rather than her own violation, II 115.
Virtue, what it is, I 443 sq.; how it is divided, 456 sq.; relation between the virtues and the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit and the beatitudes, 445 sqq.; existence and essence of acquired virtues, 460 sqq.; their properties, 462 sqq.; virtue consists in a mean, 463; connection of the virtues, 464; their inequality, 467 sqq.; their duration, 471; existence and essence of the infused virtues, 472 sqq.; their properties, 475 sqq. See also the individual virtues.
Force insofar as it vitiates matrimonial consent, III 746 sqq. See Violence.
Visitation of a church prescribed for gaining indulgences, III 555; its diverse qualities, ib.
Life: man does not have full dominion either over his own life, II 6, or over the life of another, 118 sqq. See Suicide, Mutilation, Killing.
Excommunicates to be avoided, who they are, III 499; they absolve invalidly outside danger of death, 500; their other penalties, 501 sqq.
Capital vices, what they are, I 406; their number, 407; their malice, 408.
Vivisection of an animal, when it is lawful, II 14.
The sacraments of the living, which they are and whether they cause first grace per accidens, III 33.
Divine vocation to receiving orders, III 602; in what it consists, ib.; signs of a clerical vocation, ib.
The voluntary, what it is, I 48; it is distinguished from the willed, the spontaneous, and a natural act, ib.; how manifold it is, 49; what the indirectly voluntary is and when it is lawful to permit an evil that is indirectly voluntary, 57 sqq.; enemies of the voluntary are ignorance, 45; violence, 63; fear, 67; passion or concupiscence, 72; certain pathological bodily states, 91.
A last will can be changed, II 279.
Pleasure: it is not lawful to act for pleasure alone, I 125 and III 692 (5).
Pleasurable expenses, II 208.
A votive Mass: circumstances of a votive Mass commanded by the one offering the stipend are customarily binding under light obligation, III 268.
A vow, what it is, II 388; moral value and utility of vows, 389; divisions, 390; in what the essence of a solemn vow consists, 391; for the validity of a vow there is required on the part of the subject perfect use of reason, 393; intention of vowing, 394; sufficient deliberation and liberty, 395; without notable error, 396; without grave unjust fear, 397; certain vows are prohibited by ecclesiastical law, 398; object of a vow, 399 sqq.; obligation of a vow, 402; quality of this obligation, 404; fulfillment of a vow, 406; obligation of a conditional, disjunctive, penal, or doubtful vow, 407; interpretation of vows, 408; cessation of a vow intrinsically, 409 sq.; through invalidation, 411 sqq.; through dispensation, 420 sqq.; vows reserved to the Supreme Pontiff, 423; how bishops and regular confessors can dispense from vows, 424 sq.; cessation of vows through commutation, 429 sqq.; whether a private vow of virginity dissolves betrothal previously entered, III 720; a vow insofar as it is an impeding impediment of matrimony, 780 sqq.; insofar as it is a diriment impediment, 816 sq.
Wounding, see Mutilation.