Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Berardi, Aemilius
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
In the Index: Berardi, E.
Life
Born Italy; died (not found). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
- Emilio Berardi, parish priest of the diocese of Faenza (Marc's list). [Marc's list; Tanquerey's list; Tanquerey's list (2); Tanquerey's list (3)]
- Wrote a Praxis confessariorum seu moralis theologia theoretico-practica (4-5 vols., often printed at Faenza), De recidivis et occasionariis (5th ed., Faenza, 1897), De sollicitatione et absolutione complicis, and a Theologia pastoralis (Faenza, 1902) (Prümmer; Marc; a library record). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors; Marc's list; Tanquerey's list; Tanquerey's list (2); Tanquerey's list (3)]
Sources: Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site); the lists of works used in our authors' prefaces (Marc, Tanquerey), on this site. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Berardi, Aemilius, Italian, published several works on moral theology, among which his Praxis confessariorum seu moralis theologia theoretico-practica, 4 or 5 volumes, often edited at Faenza, stands out. Besides this he published little works De sollicitatione et absolutione complicis, De recidivis et occasionariis, Theologia pastoralis, and so forth. The author sometimes seems to proceed in a manner too casuistic and perhaps also too benign.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
Our authors disagree. Probabilist: Tanquerey. Equiprobabilist: Marc.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| “Emile Berardi, a probabilist, wisely sets forth practical questions”Tanquerey: a probabilist, who wisely sets forth practical questions | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 54 |
| Equiprobabilist | |
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 86 |
| Too benign in his opinions | |
| “The author sometimes seems to proceed in a manner too casuistic and perhaps also too benign”Prümmer: perhaps too benign | Prümmer, Catalogue of authors |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
Each read in its full passage; the words quoted are the author's own. Where several authors say the same thing, one is quoted and the others follow “in nearly the same words”; point at a name to see his words.
| “To these sayings consent, besides the alumni of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, very many distinguished theologians, such as Bellesheim (Katholik, 1891, II, p. 245), who thus speaks: "The texts are thus clearer than the midday light, so weighty, that an opponent must be silent: St. Alphonsus truly taught equiprobabilism." The same testify Schneider (Liter. Rundschau, 1895, col. 202), Koch (Tubing. Quart. Schr., 1897, p. 70-126), Mausbach (Die kath. Moral, p. 181), Berardi (Theol. fund., 1905, I, n. 55), Tanquerey (I, n. 405), Sweens (Theol. mor., 688).”Marc names him among the theologians who testify that St. Alphonsus was an equiprobabilist | Marc, Institutiones I, n. 87 |
| “E. Berardi”Koch-Preuss name him among recent authors who use the Scholastic method for the practical needs of the confessor | Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology |
Works Our Authors Used
- Aemilius Berardi, Pastor of the Faenza Diocese - 1) De Recidivis et Occasionariis; 2nd edition, 2 vols. (Faenza, 1877). - 2) Praxis Confessariorum, (ibid. 1879). - 3) Examen Confessarii et Parochi, 1885. — Marc's list
- Berardi, De Recidivis et Occasionariis, 5th ed., Faenza, 1897; Praxis Confessariorum, 2nd ed., Bologna, 1887. — Tanquerey's list
- Berardi, Praxis confessariorum, 4th ed., Faenza, 1903. — Tanquerey's list
- Berardi, Aemilius, Praxis Confessariorum, 4th ed., Faenza, 1904. — Tanquerey's list
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).