Article — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology

Article III. De Bestialitate

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Bestiality is intercourse with a beast.

p. i, 218

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Provided there is pollution, it is indifferent whether the beast be male or female, of what species it may be, or by what part the act is performed, since the malice of this sin consists in approach to a different species, with which generation cannot be had. It is a graver sin than even sodomy, since in this sin the same species is not kept. It is established today that generation does not follow from the intercourse of a man with a beast.

p. i, 218

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Sodomy and bestiality are most gravely punished by the ecclesiastical law and also by the civil law (Can. 2357, 2359).

p. i, 218