Front matter — Tanquerey

Contents (as printed)

¶1.

List of authors more often cited — p. xviii
On Penance
- Object and division of the Treatise — p. 1
- Preliminary Matters Concerning the Virtue of Penance — p. 2
- Genuine notion of penance — p. 2
- Controversy concerning the nature of this virtue — p. 5
- False notion of the Protestants — p. 6
- Concerning the necessity of penance — p. 8
- When the precept of penance obliges — p. 11
On the Sacrament of Penance
- Part One: Dogmatic
  - Preliminary Matters — p. 14
  - Notion of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 14
  - Division of this part — p. 14
- Chapter I. - Concerning the power of the keys conferred upon the Church
  - Art. I. Concerning the power of the keys itself, insofar as it was truly conferred upon the Church — p. 16
  - Status of the question — p. 16
  - The thesis is proved from Scripture — p. 19
  - Difficulties are solved — p. 26
  - The thesis is proved from tradition — p. 29
  - Appendix concerning penitential discipline — p. 41
  - Art. II. Concerning the minister of the power of the keys — p. 47
  - § I. Concerning the power of order for remitting sins — p. 48
  - Thesis — p. 48
  - Difficulties are solved — p. 50
  - § II. Concerning the power of jurisdiction — p. 53
  - Status of the question — p. 53
  - Thesis — p. 54
  - Corollaries — p. 56
- Chapter II. - Concerning the acts of the penitent
  - Art. I. Concerning the confession of sins — p. 58
  - Status of the question — p. 58
  - Sacramental confession is necessary by divine law — p. 61
  - The thesis is inferred from Scripture — p. 62
  - From the testimonies of the first four centuries — p. 66
  - From facts and testimonies from the fifth century to the twelfth — p. 71
  - Secret confession was in use from the beginning — p. 75
  - The usefulness of confession is shown by reason — p. 79
  - Art. II. Concerning contrition — p. 82
  - Tridentine doctrine — p. 82
  - § I. Nature and necessity of contrition — p. 83
  - § II. Efficacy of contrition with or without absolution — p. 86
  - Efficacy of perfect contrition — p. 89
  - Notion and sufficiency of attrition — p. 93
  - Attrition is a true and useful sorrow preparing for grace — p. 97
  - Art. III. Concerning satisfaction — p. 100
  - Tridentine doctrine — p. 100
  - Errors — p. 100
  - After sins have been remitted, there generally remains a temporal punishment to be undergone — p. 101
  - Satisfactory works — p. 105
  - Penitents can be absolved before they have fulfilled sacramental satisfaction — p. 106
- Chapter III. - Concerning the Sacrament of Penance itself
  - Art. I. Concerning the existence of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 109
  - Tridentine doctrine — p. 109
  - The rite by which the power of the keys is exercised is a true Sacrament, distinct from Baptism — p. 110
  - Art. II. Concerning the constitutive elements of this Sacrament — p. 112
  - § I. Concerning the matter of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 113
  - Status of the question — p. 113
  - The three acts of the penitent are the matter of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 114
  - § II. Concerning the form of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 116
  - Historical survey — p. 116
  - Concerning the requirements for validity and liceity — p. 119
  - Concerning conditional form — p. 124
  - Art. III. Concerning the effects of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 127
  - § I. Concerning the remission of mortal sins — p. 128
  - § II. Concerning the remission of the punishment owed to sin — p. 130
  - § III. Concerning the reviviscence of merits — p. 131
  - Scholion. Concerning the remission of venial sin — p. 134
  - Conclusion: Comparison between the virtue and the Sacrament of Penance — p. 136
Part Two: Moral
- Chapter I. - Concerning the duties of the penitent
  - Art. I. Concerning contrition — p. 141
  - § I. Concerning the qualities of contrition — p. 141
  - Scholion: Concerning the Sacrament of Penance valid and unformed — p. 151
  - Concerning contrition in order to the Sacrament — p. 152
  - § II. Concerning the qualities of the purpose — p. 155
  - Concerning the purpose as regards mortal sins — p. 155
  - Concerning the purpose of avoiding venial sins — p. 158
  - Art. II. Concerning confession — p. 160
  - § I. Concerning the precept of confession — p. 160
  - Concerning the divine precept — p. 160
  - Concerning the ecclesiastical precept — p. 161
  - Concerning the qualities of confession — p. 164
  - § II. Concerning the integrity of confession — p. 166
  - Whether this integrity is necessary? — p. 166
  - Whether this integrity extends to the species of sins? — p. 175
  - to the number of sins? — p. 178
  - to their circumstances? — p. 180
  - to doubtful sins? — p. 184
  - Concerning lying and other defects contrary to integrity — p. 187
  - § III. Concerning causes excusing from material integrity — p. 189
  - Concerning physical impossibility — p. 190
  - Concerning moral impossibility — p. 193
  - What concerning inquiry into the name of an accomplice? — p. 197
  - § IV. Concerning the means for procuring the integrity of confession — p. 198
  - What concerning examination of conscience? — p. 198
  - What concerning the repetition of confessions and general confession? — p. 203
  - Art. III. Concerning satisfaction — p. 211
  - Preliminary matters concerning the notion and species of satisfaction — p. 211
  - § I. Concerning the obligation of imposing penance — p. 211
  - Existence, gravity, and time of this obligation — p. 211
  - § II. Concerning the qualities of sacramental penance — p. 214
  - It must be salutary and proportioned to the gravity of the crimes, the amount of punishment, and the capacity of the penitents — p. 214
  - Causes for diminishing penance — p. 217
  - Practical corollaries — p. 218
  - § III. Concerning the commutation of penance — p. 222
  - § IV. Concerning the fulfillment of penance — p. 224
  - Whether and how it must be fulfilled? — p. 224

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Chapter II. - Concerning the confessor
- Art. I. Concerning the power required in the confessor — p. 229
- Preliminary matters concerning the power of order and jurisdiction — p. 229
- § I. Concerning approbation — p. 230
- What is it? Is it necessary? How is it conferred? — p. 230
- § II. Concerning ordinary or delegated jurisdiction — p. 233
- Who have ordinary jurisdiction? — p. 233
- What are its properties? — p. 235
- How is it acquired and lost? — p. 236
- What also concerning delegated jurisdiction? — p. 236
- § III. Concerning jurisdiction which the Church supplies — p. 240
- In danger of death — p. 240
- In the case of common error — p. 241
- In the case of speculatively probable jurisdiction — p. 242
- § IV. Concerning the approbation and jurisdiction of Regulars with respect to outsiders and members of their own houses — p. 243
- With respect to the absolution of the Regulars themselves — p. 243
- § V. Concerning approbation and jurisdiction with respect to Nuns — p. 244
- What concerning their ordinary and extraordinary confessor, and the qualities of each? — p. 244
- § VI. Concerning the reservation of cases — p. 246
- Concerning the power of reserving — p. 248
- What conditions are required for a sin to be reserved? — p. 249
- Concerning the principal reserved cases, both Papal and Episcopal, and also regular — p. 252
- Concerning absolution from cases reserved to the Bishop and to the Pope — p. 253
- Corollaries — p. 256
- Art. II. Concerning the duties of the minister — p. 270
- § I. Concerning the duties of the minister in general — p. 270
- Concerning his duties before confession — p. 271
- What concerning the obligation of hearing confessions, from justice or from charity? — p. 271
- What concerning the obligation of preparing oneself for hearing confessions, on the part of the intellect and of the will? — p. 274
- Concerning the duties of the minister in confession — p. 280
- As judge, let him interrogate — p. 280
- As teacher, let him teach and admonish — p. 285
- As physician, let him cure wounds — p. 288
- As minister and judge, let him give or deny or defer absolution — p. 291
- Concerning the duties of the minister after confession — p. 295
- Concerning the correction of defects or errors — p. 295
- Concerning the obligation, subject, object, and violation of the sacramental seal — p. 298
- Concerning the confession certificate — p. 308
- § II. Concerning the duties of the confessor with respect to various kinds of penitents — p. 310
- Concerning the manner of acting with children, the uneducated, the semi-simple-minded, the mute, and the deaf — p. 310
- Concerning the manner of acting with those in occasions, the habitual, and relapsing sinners — p. 314
- Concerning the manner of acting with pious persons and the dying — p. 329
- Concerning the manner of helping the dying — p. 338
- § III. Concerning abuses to be avoided in the administration of the Sacrament of Penance — p. 342
- Concerning the absolution of an accomplice and the penalties enacted against those absolving an accomplice — p. 342
- Concerning solicitation to shameful things — p. 349
Appendix Concerning Indulgences
- Art. I. Concerning indulgences in general — p. 360
- What and how many are indulgences? — p. 360
- Has the Church the power of granting indulgences? — p. 363
- Who in the Church can grant indulgences? — p. 373
- Concerning the subject of indulgences — p. 375
- What concerning the suspension, transfer, and cessation of indulgences? — p. 379
- Art. II. Concerning the indulgence of Jubilee — p. 381
- Art. III. Concerning indulgences in particular — p. 389
- What are the rules for discerning true indulgences from apocryphal ones? — p. 389
- Concerning the indulgence in the article of death — p. 391
- Concerning the indulgence of a privileged altar — p. 394
- Concerning the Way of the Cross, the Rosary, Scapulars, and the heroic act of charity — p. 395