A Manual of Moral Theology

For English-Speaking Countries. By Rev. Thomas Slater, S.J., St. Beuno’s College, St. Asaph, with Notes in the Text on American Legislation by Rev. Michael Martin, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology, St. Louis University. Complete in Two Large, Handsome Volumes, each Volume with Full Alphabetical Index. The Two Volumes, net, $5.50.

This epoch-making work has met with a reception such as has seldom welcomed what may be considered an innovation in English ecclesiastical literature. So great was the demand for it by the Reverend Clergy that two editions were sold in one month.

“Every English-speaking student of moral theology will have suffered the annoyance and perplexity of repeated statements about the enactment of laws foreign to the Britisher or American, which could never affect him or his ministry. This book, on the other hand, informs him fully, as far as his religious duties are concerned, and in a simple and direct manner, of the bearing of English and American Law upon numerous points of conduct, and is silent about all other civil laws. A feature so characteristic renders the book invaluable, not to say indispensable, for priests in the British Isles and the United States. . . . Moreover, there is no professor of moral theology who will not be glad to study the up-to-date chapters on Loan, Interest, Sales, Insurance, etc. Two articles on the value of money and on the bankrupt’s liabilities in conscience are specially well done, and will be read with satisfaction and profit. Throughout the book we find ourselves in the fresh air of life, and dealing with the moral aspects of subjects referred to in the headlines of the daily papers, such as Employers’ Liability, Sweating, Duties of Electors.”—CATHOLIC BOOK NOTES, London.

“Father Slater has held the Chair of Moral Theology at St. Beuno’s College for the past sixteen years, and during that time has acquired a reputation for soundness and sobriety of judgment, which is thoroughly well borne out by this book. We share his hope that his volume will also be useful to non-Catholics, who have seldom trustworthy first-hand acquaintance with Catholic doctrine.”—THE MONTH.

“As introductory and auxiliary to the seminarian’s professional training, as supplementary to the priest’s theological reading, as enabling one who is fairly acquainted with the subject easily to review it, and, especially by reason of the visualizing power in which the vernacular usually surpasses a foreign tongue, to clarify and familiarize the matter, the work is unquestionably serviceable. Although primarily intended for Catholic students and priests, the book, it may also be hoped, will be useful to non-Catholics—especially the Anglican clergy who, having of late years attempted to introduce the practice of confession amongst their people, are sadly at a loss for some medium of self-instruction and guidance. Unfamiliar as they often are with scholastic Latin, and having at their command in English only imperfect excerpts or compends drawn by their professors from Catholic writers, they will welcome the present superior manual.”—ECCLESIASTICAL REVIEW.