Book IV. On the Sanction of Christian Life, or on Ecclesiastical Penalties

(St. Alphonsus, Theologia Moralis, book VII, nn. 1-340; Homo Apostolicus, tract 19, nn. 1-71).¹

After in special moral theology we have treated of the due cultivation of virtues and of the principal means of obtaining the graces necessary for exercising this cultivation, there remains to be explained in what way the Church strives to sanction the observance of virtues and of means, or to coerce transgressions of precepts by established penalties. First and by way of preliminary, however, we will speak of those things which the Church punishes, or of delicts; then of the penalties by which she punishes delicts.

¹ Wernz, Ius Decretalium, VI; Hollweck, Die kirchlichen Strafgesetze; Chelodi, Ius poenale; Sole, De delictis et poenis; Lega, De delictis et poenis; Noldin-Schoenegger, De poenis ecclesiasticis; Vermeersch-Creusen, Epitome Iuris Canonici, III, n. 382 sq.

Censures and Ecclesiastical Penalties

Within this book

Treatise I. On Delictsnn. 846–851
- Dissertation I. On Delict Considered in Itselfnn. 846–849
  - Part I. Summary Expositionn. 846
  - Part II. Fuller Expositionnn. 847–849
- Dissertation II. On the Juridic Effects of Delictnn. 850–851
  - Scholion. On Attempted Delictn. 851
Treatise II. On the Penalties of Delictnn. 852–901
- Dissertation I. On Penalties in Generalnn. 852–861
- Dissertation II. On Penalties in Speciesnn. 862–893
  - Part I. On Medicinal Penalties, or on Censuresnn. 862–888
    Section I. On Censures in Generalnn. 862–868
    Chapter I. On the Notion, Multiplication, and Division of Censuren. 862
    Chapter II. On Reservation of Censuren. 863
    Chapter III. On Remission of Censurenn. 864–868
    Section II. On Censures in Speciesnn. 869–888
    Chapter I. On Excommunicationnn. 870–873
    Chapter II. On Interdictnn. 874–883
    Chapter III. On Suspensionnn. 884–888
    Scholion. On Suspension from Informed Consciencen. 888
  - Part II. On Vindicative Penaltiesnn. 889–891
    Section I. On Vindicative Penalties in Generaln. 889
    Section II. On Common Vindicative Penaltiesn. 890
    Section III. On Vindicative Penalties Peculiar to Clericsn. 891
  - Part III. On Penal Remedies and Penancesnn. 892–893
    Section I. On Penal Remediesn. 892
    Section II. On Penancesn. 893
- Dissertation III. On Penalties Established for Individual Delictsnn. 894–901