Alphabetical Index of Matters (Volume I)

Numbers = marginal numbers, unless p. is prefixed.

An asterisk signifies annotations.

An inserted dash (-) = the word placed at the beginning.

Abbots nullius, 273, 277 - dispensing, 295.

Aboulia, 99.

Abstinence (virtue), 475.

Doubtful obligation of abstinence, 370, 371, 374.

Sloth, 468, 487.

Another's action, how it is imputed, 132, 135; one's own, how it is imputed, 128 - whether an offering is commanded or counseled, 148.

Acts are to be placed in a continuous series, 37₃ - which can be commanded by law, 254, 255.

Human act, 31, 33, 34 - psychologically free, 31; morally, 35; meritorious, 136, 138, 147 - moral, 32.

- good or evil, licit or illicit, meritorious or demeritorious, right or depraved. Whether indifferent, 34, 36, 109 - elicited or commanded, 38₃ - internal or external, 33₁, 110. Whether the external adds morality, 110 - natural or supernatural, 33₂ - valid or invalid, 36, 180.

An act which would be done: whether it adds morality, 111.

- by which satisfaction is made to the law, 195-200, 202.

Heroic act toward the souls being purified, 147.

Past acts: whether they fall under law, 255.

Adam before the fall, incapable of venial sin, 416.

Sojourner, 285, 286.

Advertence required in grave sin, 405.

Equiprobabilists, 357, III; 358, I₃.

Age exempting from ecclesiastical law, 282-284. Doubts concerning age, 374.

Eternal punishment, why, 410, 444.

Authority of St. Alphonsus, 5; his mind concerning probabilism, 357, V; concerning the occasion of sin, 452.

Ambition, 469, 474.

The insane exempt from ecclesiastical law, 282 - and domicile, 285.

The angel incapable of venial sin, 414.

Metropolitan archbishop, 275.

Articles of faith, 1.

Ascetical science, 2, 3.

Authority of St. Alphonsus and St. Thomas, 5.

Pontifical Court, 315.

Avarice, 471.

Axioms of law, to be used prudently, 6, 7.

Propositions of Baius, 35, 62.

Doubtful baptism: whether it obliges to ecclesiastical laws, 281.

Sins of barbarians, 398.

Blasphemies in drunkenness, 483.

The good from the whole cause, 122-124, 128, 130, 135.

Brief, 265.

The Breviary probably recited, 369.

Bull, 265.

Apostolic Camera, 334₃.

Apostolic Chancery, 334.

Capital sins, 466-488.

Cathedral chapter, 274, 277 - general chapter of religious orders, 277; particular chapter, 277.

Troublesome cases in a lustful matter, 103-105 - perplexed cases, 349.

Catechumens immune from ecclesiastical law, 279.

Obedience of Catholics to laws, 337.

Cause for dispensing, 222.

Cause per se, by accident, 129-131, 133.

Moral certitude, 340₅; 351, 362.

Christ's connatural glorification through our acts, 148, 149 - examples and doctrine, the greatest aid of liberty, 498. He Himself ought to reign in us through virtues and gifts, 500.

Cicero, concerning sin, 391; concerning scruple, 380.

Circumstances: what they are, how many there are, 120. What they influence in morality, 121.

Clauses abrogating custom, 263.

Clemency, 486.

Whether clerics are subject to civil law, 335.

Coercion, what it is and of how many kinds, 75. What it effects, 76. How it is to be resisted, 76, 77.

The Code of Canon Law and custom, 263 - and prior laws, 271 - and its interpretation, 290.

System of compensation, 357, IV; 358, I₄.

Communication of privileges, 211.

Ecumenical council, 277; plenary, 276, 277; provincial, 275, 277.

Concupiscence, what it is and of how many kinds, 66, 67. - What it effects in the voluntary, 68; in merit and sin, 69. What if habit is added, 70.

A condition differing from a cause, 187.

The confessor in troublesome cases concerning venereal matter, 103-105 - dispensing, 299; asking about the number of sins, 440; using extrinsic probability, 367 - lax confessors, 388 - scrupulous confessors, 382-385.

Confession of the number of sins, 440.

The Sacred Roman Congregations, 277. Concerning them in common, 317. - Concerning each one, 318-329. Recourse from one Sacred Congregation to another, 314.

Conscience, moral, psychological. What it is and of how many kinds. It is the rule of morals, 338-341 - certain, 340₄; 343 - practically doubtful, 346-348. What in a perplexed case, 349; urgent case, 344 - speculatively doubtful, 351-355; concerning facts, 368, 369; concerning law, 356-367 - erroneous, 344 - negatively doubtful, 372-379 - lax, 387, 388 - right and tender, 376-379 - scrupulous, 380-386.

Criteria of imperfect consent, 417.

Counsel, 232, 233.

Episcopal council, 274.

Custom (personal, or habit), 57, 70.

- generating a privilege, 211 - of fact and of law, 260-263 - tempering the law, 353.

Formal and absolute contempt, 418₃.

Insults in drunkenness, 483.

Cooperation in evil, how it can be excused, 135.

Covetousness, a capital vice, 467.

Diocesan curia, 274 - Roman, 315-334.

Apostolic Datary, 334₂.

Decalogue, 244.

Dean, 274.

Royal decree, presidential decree, 264 - decree of a Sacred Roman Congregation, 264 note, 317.

Delight: what it is; what its moral object is, 117, 150* - its repudiation, meritorious, 145.

Concerning morose delight, 459, 460.

Apostolic delegates, 273.

Various delegation for dispensing, 223; for executing a rescript, 311 - whether a delegate can dispense with himself, 225.

Deliberation about committing a mortal sin: whether it is grave, 419 ter - what deliberation is to be considered imperfect, 417.

The demented, 94.

Desire, 461.

God does nothing by accident. How He permits evil, 133 - orderer of the world, 155-157 - in what sense He alone is Legislator, 186 - He is not bound by His own laws, 192.

Dispensation: what it is, 222. It is not presumed, 222. Asked for another, 225. What a dispensation is with respect to individual cases, 301 - its author, 223, 294-300; cause, 224; cessation, 228; interpretation, 227, 305; subject, 225, 302; use, where and in what forum, 303; validity in doubt, 304.

Fraud: what it is, 86. What it effects, 86.

Domicile, 285.

Doubt of fact, of law, 55; in ecclesiastical law, 270-295. Solution of various doubts, 370-375 - concerning whether baptism exempts from ecclesiastical law, 281 - and opinion, 340 - and probability, 352. What is permitted to one who doubts, in an urgent case, 344.

Drunkenness, 477-484 - impedes liberty, 52₃.

Whether the Church commands internal, mixed acts, 254.

Effect: what it is and of how many kinds, 129. How it is imputed, 130, 131, 134. Joy concerning an effect, 462. Question concerning the double effect, 131.

Encyclical letters, 265.

Epikeia, 184, 257.

Epilepsy, 100.

Bishops recurring to the Pope concerning pontifical law, 257₁ - legislators, 277, 278. Whether their mandate concerning the execution of pontifical law is to be awaited, 257₄ - what they are in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, 274; how they dispense, 295 - residential, titular, 274 - suffragan, 275.

Error, 54 - in the execution or tenor of a rescript, 310, 311.

Ethics, 1, 2.

Local exemption from law, 288.

Fiction, insofar as it seems to found law, 179.

End: what it is and of how many kinds, 116. What it effects in morality, 113, 118, 119, 123. What if you act for the sake of delight, 117 - if it ceases, whether the law ceases, 206, dispensation, 228.

Privileged forum, 335.

Joy, 117, 458, 462, 463.

Law of nations, 246-248.

Actual grace, 492₃ - medicinal grace, 71.

Sanctifying grace, 409, 492. Its privation, 409, 445.

Gluttony, 475, 476.

Habit and the voluntary, 57, 70.

Whether heretics are bound by ecclesiastical laws, 280.

Harnack, assailant of probabilism, 357, p. 305, 307.

Ecclesiastical hierarchy, 272.

Historical notes concerning moral theology, 10-24.

To feed on human flesh, 476.

John Hus, condemned propositions, 142.

Hypnotic state, 101.

Boasting about sin, 464.

Propositions of the Jansenists, 62.

Natural fast perhaps violated, 369, 370, 374.

Ignorance: what it is and of how many kinds, 54, 55. What can be invincibly unknown, 56. - How it is blameworthy, 58. - What effects it produces in the voluntary, 61; in merit and sin, 62; in punishments, 63; in the value of acts, 64. Ignorance of the law of nature always harmful, 62; affected ignorance, 61.

- of ecclesiastical law, 270.

Impediments excusing from law, 216-220. What if they are voluntary, 221.

Moral imperfection, 422-424.

Moral impotence, 71 - excusing from law, 217, 218.

The impubes excused from punishments, 283.

Invincible impulses, 98.

Imputation: what it is and of how many kinds, 127 - of action, 128-135; of effect, 129-134.

Inadvertence, 54-65.

Inhabitant, 285, 286.

Inconvenience excusing from law, 218-220.

Infants exempt from law, 282.

Whether an unbeliever can merit, 142, 398 - he is not excused by a less probable opinion, 368₂ - he is not subject to ecclesiastical law, 279.

Instruction: what it is, 264.

The intellect not to be separated from the will, 37.

Efficacy of intention, 110-111, 125, 150, 152. Comparison of intention and permission, 128-131 - what purity is to be pursued, 151 - usefulness of renewed intention, 152 - sufficiency in observing law, 197, 198.

Interpretation of dispensation, 227 - of law, 182, 183, 184 - of ecclesiastical law, 289-291 - of privilege, 213 - by decrees of the Sacred Congregations, 309-317.

Envy, 474.

Involuntary: what it is, 47.

Anger, 485, 486.

Various nullification by law, 180 - by ecclesiastical law, 270.

Juridical discipline and moral discipline, 4.

Jurisdiction, 188, 272 - cumulative jurisdiction of the Sacred Congregations, 329. Supplied by the Church, 369.

Doubt of law, ignorance, 55, 2.

Canon law, 2, 3.

Law of Nations, 246-248.

Acquired right, 173, 255.

Kant: general rule of morals, 240; non-Catholic Jansenist, 129.

Whether labor is commanded, 488.

Laxists, 357, V.

Physical laws, laws of arts, 164.

Legislator, who he is, 186-188 - whether he is bound by his own law, 192. How a tyrant commands, 189 - dispensing in his own law, 223 - consenting to custom, 260 - ecclesiastical, 277 - civil, 335.

Author of law, 186, 187, 277, 355; cessation, 205, 206; definition, 160; essential conditions, 161, 162; excuse, 207-228; interpretation, 182; obligation, 168, 176. Whether with danger to life, 219; division, 177-180; promulgation, 162; usefulness, 337; vacation, 163.

Obligation of human law, 250-254.

Author, promulgation, subject, modern tendencies, and use in the ecclesiastical forum of civil law, 335.

Name and form of ecclesiastical law, 265; promulgation, 266; revocation, 271; subject, 279-288; supplementation by civil law, 335; vacation, 267, 268; extensive and intensive force, 269, 270.

Subject of particular law, 285-287.

Affirmative law, negative law, 177; invalidating law, 180; moral law, 168; penal law, 169, 255₂; how it regards future things alone, 173; how it is to be observed, 194-203; how it is perpetual, 172; universal law, 171.

Eternal divine law: what it is, what it comprises, 235, 236; necessary for human law and more excellent than it, 337, II; natural law founds other laws, 237. Its divulgation, 239; firmness, 240; notion, 237; promulgation, 238; sanction, 243; subject, 242. What if the end seems to cease, 240. What it comprises; what order it confirms, 241; positive law of the Old and New Testament, 244.

Liberalities, 472.

Moral liberty, 35, 70. Conditions of liberty, 49 - and conjunction of the voluntary, 48. - Common impediments, 51, 52, 53; - accidental impediments from fraud, 86; from ignorance, 54-65; from concupiscence, 66-74; from force and fear, 75-85; from diseases of the soul, 94-102.

License: what it is in itself, and compared with dispensation, 222.

Lust, 473.

Stain of sin, 409, 420.

Magnanimity, 469, 470.

To curse the day of birth, etc., 474.

Intrinsic malice, 114 - multiple malice of one sin, 430.

Meekness, 486.

The Blessed Virgin Mary's connatural glorification through our works, 149 - immunity from venial sin, 416.

Grave matter in law, 252; for sin, 404 - how it becomes grave if accumulated, or slight as a moderate part of a large quantity, 418, 419.

Meritorious acts, which they are, 140-147.

Merit: what it is and of how many kinds, 136, 137. Concerning theological merit, 138-147.

Metropolitan, 275.

Fear: what it is and of how many kinds, 78, 79. What it effects in acts, 81, 83; in oaths and sacred ordination, 84; in sin, 82; in the obligation of law, 220; in punishments, 82, 220. Phobias to be avoided, 85.

Minor and domicile, 285.

Moral impotence, 70; liberty, 35.

Morality: what it is and of how many kinds, 107, 108. How far it extends, 109-111.

Sources of morality, 113-125.

Diseases of the soul, 94-102.

A dying person using morphine, 478.

Use of morphine, 478.

Motu Proprio, 265.

Non-deliberate movements of sense, of will, 53, 72. Stirred-up affections are not fictitious, 74.

Mystical science, 2, 3.

Neurasthenics, 102.

Non-retroactivity of law, 173.

Numerical distinction of sins, 432-440.

Nuncios, Internuncios, 273.

Moral object: what it is, of how many kinds, 114. - What it influences in morality, 115.

Moral value of offerings, 110, 152 - obligation of general offerings, 148.

Notion of obligation, psychological explanation, 158 - source of obligation of human law, 250; matter, 254; moral and theological species, 251, 252. Mind of the legislator, 253.

Observation of law, 194-203.

Obsession, 97.

Occasion of sin, 452-456.

Offices of the Roman Curia, 334.

Official, 274.

Omission is placed among acts, 37. How it is imputed, 128, 130, 406. How it is multiplied, 437.

Opinion, 340, 359, d - probable, 352, 354 - probably probable, 363 - safe and safer, 355 - uniquely probable, 362.

Usefulness of prayer for special ends, 146.

Ordinary dispensing, 270, 295, 302 - local Ordinary, 274, 295₃, 302. Recourse to various Ordinaries, 314.

Present order of divine Providence, 156, 160 - to be completed through man, 157 - by which satisfaction is made to several obligations, 201.

Public order, what it is, 286.

Orientals exempt from the Code, 269.

Sacred Penitentiary, 331.

Pastor, 274 - dispensing, 297.

Pastoral theology, 2, 3.

Patriarchs, Primates, 275.

Others' sins, 491 - capital sins, 466-488; - sins crying to heaven, 490; - sins against the Holy Spirit, 489.

Numerical distinction of sin, 432-440; specific distinction, morally, 426-430; theologically, 400-408; 412-419 - extinction, 447-449; flight from it, 451-456; punishments, 410, 442-445 - state, 195, 409, 420.

Whether a sinner can merit, 141.

Sin: what it is, 391-393; in how many ways it is distinguished, 394; where it is found, 396 - formal, 395; material, 358, I, 4; 360, 395, 451 - internal, 433, 458-464 - actual mortal, 400-408; habitual, 409 - of omission, 406 - philosophical, 158, 397 - venial, actual, 412-419; habitual, 420.

Causes of sin: of ignorance, 58-60, 62, 394; of non-deliberate movements, 53; of illicit permission, 134. It does not impede observation of law, 195, 196.

Traveler, 285, 286, 287, 302.

Permission, in a moral matter, 129 - of evil by God, 133 - morality of permission, 130, 131, 134.

Per se... by accident. Causality, 129, 131, 133. Distinction, 8. Effect, 129.

Impure phantasms, 72.

Phobias to be avoided, 85.

The frantic, 94.

Canonical penalties excused by ignorance, 63. They suppose mortal sin, 63.

Punishments of sin, 442-445. Guilt of punishment, 410, 442. Remission of punishment, 447, 448.

The Supreme Pontiff. His laws, 265, 277; place in the hierarchy and power, 273, 294. What things in the Roman Curia are to be approved by him, 316.

The people is not legislator, 256. Its authority in the firmness of law, 257; interpretation, 258; origin through custom, 260-263.

Precept, 165, 171, 230, 231.

The Friars Preachers and the moral system, 357.

Apostolic Prefect, 273, 277 - dispensing, 295.

Prelates nullius, 273-277 - dispensing, 295.

Prescription and custom, 261.

Presumption founding law; of law; of law and concerning law, 178.

Presumption as a principle for solving cases, 364, 417₂.

- vice, 469.

Presumed consents concerning the future, 46; concerning the present, 44.

Primate, 275.

Communication of privileges, 211.

Privilege: what it is and of how many kinds, 209, 210 - in the canonical forum, 293. What use of a privilege is commanded, 214 - how it ceases, 215.

Probabiliorists, 357, II; 358, I₂.

Probabilism, 357, V. To what treatises the question pertains, 390. Its right use, 365-369.

Probability of fact, 352, 365, 368, 369; of law, 352-354. Use of extrinsic probability, 353, 367. Simultaneous use of opposed probabilities, 370.

Prodigality, 471.

Promulgation of law, 162, 183, 266.

Merit of a good purpose, 110, 111.

Reprobated propositions, 35, 62, 117, 142, 357, 368, 397. Right use of reprobation, 9.

Purpose and execution: whether the latter adds morality, 110, 111.

Private property: juridical explanation, 247.

Ecclesiastical province, 275.

A child lacks liberty, 52.

Pusillanimity, 469.

Quasi-domicile, 285.

Guilt of fault, 309; of punishment, 410, 442.

A regular dispensed by the local Ordinary, 302, 5.

Local exemption of religious, 288.

Remission of sin, 447-449.

Renunciation of dispensation, 228; of privilege, 215.

Notion of rescript, 265, 306; execution, 311; firmness when the see is vacant, 312; impetration and subject, 307; presentation to the Ordinary to be made, 313; validity, 308-310; force and obligation, 289, 309. What if you have recourse to various Superiors, 314.

Residence, 285.

Resistance to temptations, 73, 77; to violence concerning dishonorable things, 77.

Rigorism, 357, I.

The Sacred Roman Rota, 332.

Priest dispensing, 300.

Sanction of law, 175; what is required for divine law, what for human law, 243, 337.

Divine holiness participated by us, 158.

Scandal, how it can be excused, 135.

Whether schismatics are bound by the laws of the Church, 280.

Science, 1 - juridical and moral, 4.

Scotus' opinion concerning the morality of the external act, 110; concerning venial sin, 414.

Scruples, 380-386.

Secretariat of State, 334.

Secrecy in the Roman Curia, 316.

Liberty of one half asleep, 52.

Non-deliberate movement of sense, 53.

International society, 248.

Societies for temperance, 484.

Sleep impedes liberty, 52₂.

Moral species of obligation, 251; of sin, 426-430, 458, 460, 461; theological species of obligation, 252.

Gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, 497.

Spontaneous, 74.

Immediately, what it means in canon law, 202.

Statute, 265.

Style of the Curia, 262.

Subject of dispensation, 225, 302; of ecclesiastical law, 279-288.

- of moral theology, 27-29.

Pride, 467, 469.

Whether a Superior can dispense with himself, 225; whether by his own recourse he can suspend the precept or law of a Superior, 257.

- a religious General, whether he establishes law, 277 - major Superior, dispensing, 296. Every Superior dispensing, 298.

Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, 333.

Diocesan synod, 274.

Moral systems are set forth, 356, 357; after false systems have been rejected, the true is established, 358-360.

Consent of one silent, 45.

Time in which a law is to be fulfilled, 202 - for which, in the case of various precepts, an option is given, 370-374 - how it is computed in ecclesiastical law, 292.

- continuous, useful, 292, 7.

Attack upon temptations, 73, 77, 103-105.

Definition of moral theology, 1; distinction from related sciences, 2; sources, 5; historical notes, 10-21, 23, 24; place and dignity, 4; method, 6; order, division, 25; postulates, 24; contemporary theology, 22; subject, 27-29; use of condemnations, 9; of distinctions, 8; of sayings, rules of law, 6, 7; of reason, 5, 24; of revelation, 2, 5; usefulness, 30.

Theology, one science, 1. Signification of the word, p. 1* - dogmatic, 2, 3.

Authority of St. Thomas, 5; his mind concerning probabilism, 361; opinion concerning moral malice and law, 397*; concerning the punishment of mortal sin, 400; concerning the eternity of punishments, 410, 444; concerning venial sin, 414; concerning the numerical distinction and specification of sin, 426, 427, 428; concerning capital sins, 467, 468; concerning drunkenness, 477.

Tribunals of the Roman Curia, 330-333.

Sadness concerning good, 464.

Tutiorism, 357, 358.

Laws of a usurper, 189.

Wife and domicile, 285.

Vacation of law, 163, 267, 268.

Vagrant, 285, 286, 302.

Vainglory, 469.

Venial sin, 412-420. Whether the will to commit all venial sins is grave, 419 bis.

The likely and the true, 359.

Vicariate of the City, 315.

Apostolic Vicar, 273, 277 - dispensing, 295.

Capitular vicar, 274, 277 - dispensing, 295.

- forane vicar, 274.

- vicar general, 274 - dispensing, 295. Recourse from the vicar general to the bishop, and conversely, 314.

Virtual will: what it is, 46.

Natural, supernatural, moral, cardinal, theological virtues, 492-495.

Potential, quasi-integral, subjective parts of virtues, 496.

Force: what it is and of how many kinds, 75. - What it effects, 76. How it is to be resisted, 76-77.

The present life, cause of sadness and joy, 500.

Notion of the voluntary, 40 - division, 41-46 - and conjunction with the free, 48.

Non-deliberate movements of the will, 53.

The will, not to be separated from the intellect, 37 - cannot be coerced by force, 75.

Vows, when they are to be renewed, 292 - which have probably been satisfied, 369. What if you have violated several vows at once, 418.

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