Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Aloysius Sabetti
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
S.J. · Jesuit · 1839–1898
On this site: Compendium of Moral Theology
In the Index: Sabetti, A. (S.J.)
His Moral System
Probabilism
- “It is licit to follow an opinion truly and solidly probable, the safer having been left aside, which is at the same time more probable” — Sabetti-Barrett, n. 58
As others report it
- “such as Gury, Ballerini, Lehmkuhl, Sabetti, Bucceroni” — Noldin, n. 233
Life
Aloysius Sabetti
Born 3 January 1839, Roseto Valfortore, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Prümmer gives 1838); died 26 November 1898, Baltimore. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
- Came to the United States in 1871, sent to teach at Woodstock College, Maryland, where he taught twenty-seven years. [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Theologian at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884; the same year published his Compendium theologiae moralis (thirteen editions in his lifetime). [New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- The Compendium was carried on after the Code by Timothy Barrett, S.J.: the 28th edition, prepared by him, appeared in 1922 (Prümmer). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com; Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
Timothy Barrett
Born 23 July 1862, Washington, D.C.; died (after 1917; not yet found). [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 9]
- Educated at Gonzaga College, Washington, and the Jesuit scholasticates of Frederick, Woodstock and Innsbruck; ordained 1891. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 9]
- Professor of philosophy at Woodstock 1892–1895 and 1896–1898; professor of moral theology at Woodstock 1898–1914; then spiritual director there. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 9]
- Editor of Sabetti's Compendium theologiae moralis from the 17th edition on; wrote the Catholic Encyclopedia's articles on Busembaum and on Agostino Bernal. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 9]
Sources: The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers (New York, 1917), lives of the contributors (archive.org cu31924063262053). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
Lineage
- “reduced the Compendium theologiae moralis composed by Gury and Ballerini into a new form especially suited for America” — 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.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| Counted among them by 2 of our authors | Noldin, Summa I, n. 233; Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 397 |
| “Article III. The System of Probabilism is Vindicated … Proposition II. It is licit to follow an opinion truly and solidly probable, the safer having been left aside, which is at the same time more probable, where there is question of the licit or illicit alone.”In his own words (Probabilism) | Sabetti-Barrett, n. 58 |
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.
| “various editions illustrated or corrected with notes were published by Cercia, Dumas, Sabetti”Tanquerey names him among the editors of Gury | Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 51 |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).