Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Stanislaus Woywod (with J. A. McHugh), ed., The Casuist
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
O.F.M. · Franciscan · 1880–1941
On this site: The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology
His Moral System
Cases of conscience by many hands; no system of its own — Volumes I-III (1906-1910) were gathered by an unnamed editor, chiefly from cases first printed in The Homiletic Monthly; cases taken from other periodicals carry their authors' names. Volume IV is Woywod's revision to the Code; Volume V was prepared by J. A. McHugh, O.P. Of the 409 cases, about 95 close with their author's name (in Volumes II-IV): 19 by Redemptorists, 17 by Jesuits (Lehmkuhl, Stentrup, Krapoll, Arndt, Müllendorff, Schellauf, Linden, Bock, Danner), 11 by Franciscans and Capuchins, 4 by Benedictines, and the rest (some 44) by diocesan priests and doctors. Nothing in the print says who wrote the unsigned solutions. Where the moral system comes into a case, the solutions reason as probabilists: case LXV presumes probabilism lawful, and the cases on fasting before Communion and on a doubt before Mass argue from probabilist principles.
- “made up chiefly of Cases that appeared in THE HOMILETIC MONTHLY” — casuist, Title Pages (Volume I)
- “to such Cases the author's name is appended” — casuist, Title Pages (Volume I)
- “Of course it is presumed here that probabilism and its application is lawful.” — casuist, Case LXV: Application of Probabilism
- “It is the quite elementary condition of probabilism that we have done what we ought to have done” — casuist, Case L: Doubt Before Celebration
Life
Born 10 August 1880, Guttstadt, Germany; died 19 September 1941, New York. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Library of Congress authority record (Wayback Machine copy): Woywod, Stanislaus, 1880-1941]
- A Franciscan; lector in theology and canon law of the Antonianum, Rome; an authority on the Code of 1917 (The New Canon Law, 1918; A Practical Commentary on the Code of Canon Law). [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Library of Congress authority record (Wayback Machine copy): Woywod, Stanislaus, 1880-1941]
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com; library catalogue authority records (Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Princeton). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
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