Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Candidus, Vinc.
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Dominican · 1573–1654
Dates differ: Prümmer 1573–1654; Haringer ?–1654.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Candidus, Vinc., O.P., Italian, Master of the Sacred Palace (1573-1654), wrote Illustriores disquisitiones morales, 4 folio volumes, 1637-1643. According to Quetif and Echard, Scriptores Ord. Praed. II, 580, Candidus sometimes supports the laxer opinions.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
- [**: weighty, probabilist] “Candidus Vincentius, Dominican, master of the sacred palace under Innocent X, who esteemed him as a guide of the wise and a teacher of solid piety; died 1654.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XV, sign read on the page)
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.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by one of our authors | Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems |
| “This probabilistic doctrine being admitted, Christians can straightway abolish the greatest part of the natural, divine, and civil laws. Let them take up the books of Diana, of Zanardi, of Candidus, of Tamburini, of Escobar, of Gobat, of La-Croix, of Viva. Let them gather a most numerous catalogue of the opinions which are probably disputed on both sides concerning natural, divine, and human law.”Concina names his books as storehouses of opinions controverted on both sides, which probabilism would make laws no longer binding | Concina, Compendium II, diss. II, ch. VII, n. XII |
| “Candidus Vincentius, Dominican, master of the sacred palace under Innocent X, who esteemed him as a guide of the wise and a teacher of solid piety; died 1654.”Haringer marks him **, giving St. Alphonsus's judgment of him (weighty and probabilist) | Haringer's index, Index of writers, p. XV |
| Charged with laxity | |
| “Chapter IV — Lax, or improbable, propositions are reviewed, which not a few Casuists teach … VIII. "The same must be said of buyers, who, so as not to be compelled to buy goods from merchants above the just price, affirm under oath that they bought the goods elsewhere at a lower price, or that they are offered to them at a lower price, so that the sellers may descend to a just, or the lowest, price — understanding, however, in mind, goods bought at a different time for a lower price within the just price."”Concina's censuses of lax opinions list 1 of his opinion and names him in 1 more as teaching or approving one (the first is quoted; every one is under 'Where Our Authors Discuss Him') | Concina, Theologia V, diss. I, ch. IV, n. VIII |
| Too benign in his opinions | |
| “Candidus sometimes supports the laxer opinions”Prümmer: sometimes supports the laxer opinions | Prümmer, Catalogue of authors |
Where Our Authors Discuss Him
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| “Candidus, O.Pr. (1654); Sayrus, O.S.B. (1602)”Vermeersch names him among those who treated the whole of moral theology solidly but less scholastically | Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 19 |
| “Chapter IV — Lax, or improbable, propositions are reviewed, which not a few Casuists teach … VII. "Merchants who cannot obtain a just price from buyers, unless they swear that their goods stand them at such-and-such a price, when in fact this is not so, can indeed swear that the goods stand them at such-and-such a price, understanding, with all expenses computed, or reckoning in the goods which they have at home, or which they bought elsewhere."”Concina names him in the same number as teaching or approving the lax opinion (on the oath) | Concina, Theologia V, diss. I, ch. IV, n. VII |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).