Part — Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology
On the Fourth Precept of the Decalogue
¶1.
Honor thy father and thy mother. - Exod. xx, 12.
This precept primarily and directly imposes upon children certain obligations toward parents; but secondarily and indirectly it regards parents. It also regards, although implicitly, the mutual obligations of other superiors and inferiors.