Treatise I: On Clerics

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Usefulness. - A distinct knowledge of the state of clerics and of their rights and obligations reveals to very many readers or hearers of moral theology their own rights and offices, which is altogether required for honesty of life; but to others it supplies a just estimation of that state, by which not a few practical errors, for example unjust violations of rights or privileges, are forestalled.

Order of speaking. - Although we must be content with a summary proposition of the argument, we shall make the order of the Code of Canon Law itself rather constantly our own; yet in such a way that at the same time we shall treat of offices and benefices, which in the Code are separated in distinct books.

Special Duties of Clerics

Within this treatise

Title I: On Clerics in Common
Chapter I: Notions Concerning Clerics, Concerning Hierarchy, Concerning Incardinationnn. 3–9
Chapter II: On the Rights and Privileges of Clericsnn. 10–14
Chapter III: On the Common Obligations of Clericsnn. 15–50
- Article I: On the Negative Obligations of Clericsnn. 15–24
  - § 1. On These Obligations in Generalnn. 15–19
  - § 2. On Business Dealing Prohibited to Clericsnn. 20–24
- Article II: Positive Obligationsnn. 25–50
  - § 1. Obligations Common to Allnn. 25–29
  - § 2. Obligations Common to Clerics of Major Ordersnn. 30–48
  - § 3. Obligations Common to Priestsnn. 49–50
Chapter IV: On Ecclesiastical Offices and Beneficesnn. 51–68
- Article I: On Ecclesiastical Offices (cc. 145-195)nn. 51–58
  - § 1. The Notion and Provision of an Officenn. 51–57
  - § 2. Loss of an Ecclesiastical Officen. 58
- Article II: On Ecclesiastical Benefices (cc. 1409-1488)nn. 59–68
  - § 1. The Notion and Division of Beneficesnn. 59–61
  - § 2. Conferral of Beneficesnn. 62–63
  - § 3. Rights and Obligations of Beneficiariesnn. 64–65
  - § 4. Resignation and Exchange of Beneficesnn. 66–68
Title II: On Clerics in Speciesnn. 69–86
One Chapter: Special Obligations of Various Clericsnn. 87–97