The Order of the Science
Master Table of Contents
The whole of moral theology arranged as the manuals themselves arrange it: first principles, then the virtues and commandments, then the sacraments and penalties of the Church. Open a heading to descend to more particular questions; the number shows how many passages in the library treat that heading and everything beneath it. The questions the works themselves ask are gathered under these same headings on the Questions page.
Open allClose allTip: your browser’s Find (⌘F / Ctrl+F) searches the whole table, closed sections included, and opens the ones that match. The count after a heading is the number of passages of the manuals filed under it.
Fundamental Moral Theology (28085 passages) 385 subtopics
Human Acts (5409 passages) 68 subtopics
Voluntariety and Free Choice (596 passages) 4 subtopics
The kinds of voluntariety (222 passages) 1 subtopics
Two Kinds of Voluntary Acts (49 passages)
The principle of double effect (103 passages)
Effects voluntary in their cause (191 passages)
Obstacles to Voluntariety (1732 passages) 26 subtopics
Ignorance (336 passages) 4 subtopics
Kinds of ignorance (155 passages) 1 subtopics
Sins of Ignorance, Blindness, Dullness (26 passages)
Ignorance and imputability (114 passages)
Ignorance and the validity of acts (8 passages)
Concupiscence (418 passages) 4 subtopics
Antecedent and consequent passion (42 passages)
First motions of passion (75 passages)
The Passions in General (187 passages) 1 subtopics
Moral Value of the Passions (96 passages)
Fear (234 passages) 2 subtopics
Grave and slight fear (67 passages)
Acts done through fear (116 passages)
Violence (108 passages) 1 subtopics
Violence and imputability (72 passages)
The Acts which Concur to Constitute a Deliberate Act of the Will (252 passages) 1 subtopics
The Liberty Of The Will (250 passages)
The Distinction of Acts of the Will, Considered with Respect to the Defect or Degree of Deliberation (13 passages)
Abnormalities which Arise from Morbid Disturbance of the Psychic Faculties (187 passages) 3 subtopics
Amentia Properly So Called (10 passages)
Abnormal Psycho-Somatic Dispositions (58 passages)
Psychogenic Reactions (1 passage)
Hereditary Propensions (39 passages)
Temperament and Moral Character (38 passages)
Education and Liberty (112 passages)
The Morality of Human Acts (2319 passages) 32 subtopics
The Essence of Morality (291 passages) 5 subtopics
Morality as relation to the rule of conduct (74 passages) 1 subtopics
Habits and Morality (39 passages)
Indifferent acts (91 passages)
Intrinsically evil, and evil because forbidden (25 passages)
Morality Founded in the Nature of the Act (42 passages)
The Sources of Morality (785 passages) 13 subtopics
The Object (76 passages) 1 subtopics
The object of an act (36 passages)
The End (281 passages) 3 subtopics
The end or motive of the agent (63 passages)
How a motive changes an act (102 passages)
Purity of Intention (59 passages)
The Circumstances (168 passages) 3 subtopics
The seven circumstances (52 passages)
Aggravating circumstances (30 passages)
Morality of the Act Indirectly Willed (43 passages)
Morality of the Consequences of an Act (26 passages)
Morality of the External Act (63 passages)
Merit (437 passages) 4 subtopics
Naturally good acts and supernatural merit (40 passages)
The conditions of condign merit (208 passages) 1 subtopics
The things that fall under merit (152 passages)
The Conformity of the Human Will with the Divine Will (49 passages)
The Rules of Morality (599 passages) 3 subtopics
The Effect, or on the Obligation, of Law (478 passages) 1 subtopics
Obligation of Human Laws (462 passages)
Utilitarianism (141 passages)
Kantism (146 passages)
Independent Ethics (117 passages)
What makes an act human (115 passages)
The acts commanded by the will (St. Thomas, q. 17) (88 passages)
The acts elicited by the will (107 passages)
Conscience (3575 passages) 32 subtopics
The Certain Conscience (462 passages) 2 subtopics
Moral certainty (73 passages)
Following an erroneous conscience (270 passages)
The Doubtful Conscience (490 passages) 3 subtopics
Acting with a doubtful conscience (153 passages)
The reflex principles for resolving doubt (71 passages)
The Sin of Doubt (71 passages)
The Probable Conscience and Probabilism (1674 passages) 14 subtopics
The moral systems (1017 passages) 10 subtopics
Certain Sayings Annexed to the Moral System (1 passage)
The Use of the Moral System (32 passages)
Compensationism (31 passages)
Equiprobabilism (260 passages)
Laxism (212 passages)
Probabiliorism (192 passages)
Tutiorism (79 passages)
The Authority of St. Alphonsus (148 passages)
Compensative Probabilism (47 passages)
The case for probabilism (471 passages) 1 subtopics
The Code of Canon Law and the Moral System (10 passages)
Using probable opinions in practice (350 passages)
The Scrupulous Conscience (431 passages) 3 subtopics
What scruples are (66 passages)
Causes and remedies of scruples (122 passages)
Scrupulosity (132 passages)
The Lax Conscience (143 passages)
The nature and authority of conscience (154 passages)
Kinds of conscience (380 passages) 1 subtopics
Kinds of Certitude (63 passages)
Conscience Improperly So Called (1 passage)
Synderesis (87 passages)
Law (5439 passages) 69 subtopics
Natural Law (413 passages) 2 subtopics
What the natural law commands (87 passages)
The Sanction of the Natural Law (59 passages)
Divine Positive Law (254 passages) 3 subtopics
The Old Law and the New (168 passages) 1 subtopics
The Law of the New Testament (68 passages)
The Law of Nations (29 passages)
Ecclesiastical Law (1513 passages) 18 subtopics
Custom (203 passages) 2 subtopics
Custom and mere use (42 passages)
When a custom has the force of law (92 passages)
A Law Become Useless (8 passages)
Dispensations (614 passages) 9 subtopics
What a dispensation is (40 passages)
Who can dispense (48 passages)
How dispensations are interpreted, used and cease (26 passages)
The Power of Dispensing (85 passages)
The Causes of Dispensing (54 passages)
The Granting of Dispensation (51 passages)
The Interpretation and Cessation of Dispensation (50 passages)
General Law of the Church (3 passages)
Promulgation (173 passages)
The sources of Church law (117 passages)
Privileges (320 passages)
Cessation of Obligation (101 passages)
Lawgivers in the Church (36 passages)
Civil Law (589 passages) 3 subtopics
Penal laws (156 passages)
Voiding (annulling) laws (51 passages)
Civil law and conscience (289 passages)
What a law is (117 passages)
The divisions of law (878 passages) 16 subtopics
Change of Law (29 passages)
Collision of Laws (5 passages)
Fulfillment of Law (101 passages)
Irritant Laws (75 passages)
Laws Based on Presumption (13 passages)
Laws in a Wide Sense (28 passages)
Laws on the Index and Cremation (14 passages)
Other Questions (1 passage)
Special Kinds of Laws (16 passages)
Subject-matter (4 passages)
Subject-matter of Church Law (57 passages)
The Mosaic Law (106 passages)
Those Bound by Particular Laws (82 passages)
Those Subject to Civil Law (75 passages)
Eternal And Natural Law (103 passages)
The Force of Civil Law in the Matter of Justice (2 passages)
The power of making laws (193 passages) 1 subtopics
The Power of Jurisdiction in General (101 passages)
What a law may command (47 passages)
Who is bound by a law (217 passages) 3 subtopics
The Subjects of Law Generally (36 passages)
Domicile and Quasi-domicile (79 passages) 1 subtopics
Travellers and Pilgrims (peregrini) (57 passages)
Acceptance of a law (122 passages)
The obligation of a law (334 passages) 1 subtopics
The Manner of Fulfilling Obligation (64 passages)
The interpretation of law (247 passages)
What excuses from observing a law (57 passages)
How a law ceases (100 passages)
The Power of Jurisdiction and of Making Laws (240 passages) 3 subtopics
Supplied Jurisdiction (77 passages)
The Legislative Power of the Church (130 passages) 1 subtopics
The Roman Curia (97 passages)
Epikeia (106 passages)
Rescripts (123 passages)
The Evangelical Counsels (307 passages)
The Basis of All Laws (22 passages)
Sin (5495 passages) 78 subtopics
Mortal and Venial Sin (567 passages) 7 subtopics
The three conditions of mortal sin (94 passages)
Parvity of matter (33 passages)
How a mortal sin becomes venial and a venial mortal (90 passages)
Deliberating whether to commit mortal sin (2 passages)
Objective and subjective malice (8 passages) 1 subtopics
Subjective Parts (7 passages)
Multiplied Venial Sins (23 passages)
Sins of Thought (384 passages) 4 subtopics
Bad desires (134 passages)
Morose pleasure (161 passages)
Joy in evil and sadness at good (82 passages)
Impure Thoughts (108 passages)
The Capital Vices (1674 passages) 23 subtopics
Pride (237 passages) 1 subtopics
Pride, its daughters, and humility (86 passages)
Covetousness (130 passages) 2 subtopics
Covetousness, liberality and prodigality (93 passages) 1 subtopics
In Providing Food and Drink (3 passages)
Anger (149 passages) 1 subtopics
Just and sinful anger (58 passages)
Sloth (105 passages) 3 subtopics
Imperfections (20 passages)
Laziness (1 passage)
Lukewarmness (1 passage)
Gluttony (373 passages) 4 subtopics
What gluttony is and its gravity (80 passages) 1 subtopics
Change in the Gravity of Moral Defects (11 passages)
Drunkenness (221 passages)
Narcotics and Anaesthetics (45 passages)
What the capital vices are (28 passages)
Occasions of Sin (1153 passages) 11 subtopics
Concubinage (114 passages)
Courtships (198 passages)
Domestic Dangers (Occasions of Sin in the Home) (8 passages)
Dances (64 passages) 1 subtopics
In Dances and Plays (3 passages)
Theatrical Spectacles (40 passages)
Evil Writings (112 passages) 1 subtopics
Dangerous Reading (111 passages)
Evil Associations (10 passages)
Evil Schools (282 passages) 1 subtopics
Dangerous Schools (149 passages)
What sin is (217 passages)
Advertence required for sin (37 passages)
Specific distinction of sins (256 passages)
Numerical distinction of sins (161 passages)
The Causes of Sin (340 passages) 3 subtopics
Internal Causes of Sin (93 passages)
Temptation to Sin (154 passages)
Inadvertence to sin (15 passages)
The Effects of Sin (143 passages) 2 subtopics
The guilt of punishment (83 passages)
The Punishment Due to Original Sin (29 passages)
The Remedies of Sin (16 passages)
Causes of These Sins (1 passage)
Gravity of the Sin of Envy (22 passages)
Gravity of the Sin of Hatred (38 passages)
Species of the Sin of Hatred (39 passages)
The Motives of Sin (4 passages)
The Results of Sin (23 passages)
The Sin of Blasphemy (39 passages)
The Sin of Sloth (34 passages)
The Sin of Unbelief (36 passages)
The Sins Opposed to Abstemiousness (1 passage)
The Sins Opposed to Wisdom (10 passages)
Sins Crying to Heaven (15 passages)
Sins Against the Holy Spirit (12 passages) 1 subtopics
Final Impenitence (3 passages)
Original Sin (172 passages)
The Comparison of Sins with One Another (48 passages)
The sin of omission (36 passages)
What Moral Theology Is (1738 passages) 4 subtopics
The History of Moral Theology (1296 passages) 3 subtopics
The Patristic Period (127 passages)
The Scholastic Period (41 passages)
The Modern Period (73 passages)
The Last End of Man (Beatitude) (501 passages) 7 subtopics
The Final End of Man (159 passages) 4 subtopics
The Necessity of Acting for the Sake of an End (41 passages) 1 subtopics
Perfect and Essential Goodness (2 passages)
The Obligation Of Tending To The Ultimate End (17 passages)
The Means To The Ultimate End (22 passages)
The Attainment of the Last End (143 passages)
The Existence of the Last End (56 passages)
Virtue in General (1019 passages) 8 subtopics
The Subject of Inherence of Virtues (64 passages) 1 subtopics
Greatness of Soul (4 passages)
The Origin of Virtues (94 passages)
The Permanence of Virtues After This Life (19 passages)
The Properties of Virtues (219 passages) 1 subtopics
Strengthening and Weakening of Habits (63 passages)
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Beatitudes and Fruits (524 passages) 9 subtopics
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit in General (43 passages)
The Seven Gifts in Particular (450 passages) 6 subtopics
The Gift of Fear of the Lord (207 passages)
The Gift of Piety (23 passages)
The Gift of Wisdom Introduction (2 passages)
The Gifts of Understanding and Knowledge (84 passages)
The Nature of the Gift of Wisdom (47 passages)
The Persons Who Possess Wisdom (9 passages)
The Beatitudes and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit (67 passages)
The Cardinal Virtues and Their Parts (5507 passages) 92 subtopics
Prudence (618 passages) 17 subtopics
Astuteness, Trickery, Fraud (29 passages)
False Prudence (13 passages)
Growth and Decay of Prudence (23 passages)
Haste (24 passages)
Imprudence (28 passages)
Inconstancy (28 passages)
Integral Parts (48 passages)
Negligence (35 passages)
Parts (142 passages)
Persons Who Possess Prudence (37 passages)
Potential Parts (30 passages)
Solicitude (25 passages)
The Beatitude and the Fruits That Correspond to Counsel (20 passages)
The Prudence of the Flesh (22 passages)
The Sins Against Prudence (11 passages)
Avarice, a Cause of Sins Against Prudence (1 passage)
The Potential Parts of Prudence (18 passages)
Justice as a Virtue and Its Parts (2226 passages) 29 subtopics
The Virtue of Religion (1195 passages) 13 subtopics
Adjuration and Exorcism (98 passages)
Adoration (131 passages)
Complements of the Virtues (22 passages)
Contributions (84 passages)
Distractions (31 passages)
Divine Praises (43 passages)
Irreligiousness (48 passages)
Offerings (155 passages)
Other External Acts of Religion (1 passage)
Sinfulness of Simony (10 passages)
The External Acts of Religion (124 passages)
The Internal Acts of Religion (20 passages)
The Sins Against Religion (99 passages)
The Virtue of Penance (182 passages) 1 subtopics
The Virtue of Repentance (31 passages)
The Virtue of Piety (65 passages) 1 subtopics
Simulation (16 passages)
Observance (Dulia and Obedience) (115 passages)
Truthfulness (Veracity) (73 passages) 1 subtopics
Other Frauds (2 passages)
Gratitude (75 passages)
Vindication (Just Punishment) (40 passages)
Liberality (47 passages) 1 subtopics
Unjust Words (3 passages)
Affability (Friendliness) (83 passages) 1 subtopics
In Accusers (49 passages)
The Objects of Commutative Justice (52 passages)
Judgment (Judicium), the Act of Justice (163 passages)
Fortitude (646 passages) 12 subtopics
Magnanimity (97 passages) 2 subtopics
Presumption, Ambition and Vanity (42 passages)
Pusillanimity (49 passages)
Magnificence (25 passages) 1 subtopics
Greatness of Deed, Meanness and Vulgarity (13 passages)
Patience (184 passages) 1 subtopics
Stolidity and Impatience (20 passages)
Perseverance (52 passages) 1 subtopics
Steadfastness, Effeminacy and Pertinacity (30 passages)
Martyrdom (123 passages)
The Complements of Fortitude (6 passages)
The Parts of Fortitude (22 passages)
Temperance (1965 passages) 30 subtopics
Abstinence (the Virtue) (20 passages)
Sobriety (63 passages) 1 subtopics
The Sins Against Sobriety (26 passages)
Chastity (the Virtue) and Virginity (568 passages) 1 subtopics
Purity (101 passages)
Meekness (34 passages)
Clemency (30 passages)
Modesty (839 passages) 15 subtopics
Humility (167 passages) 1 subtopics
Abjectness (1 passage)
Studiosity and Curiosity (128 passages) 3 subtopics
Curiosity and Negligence (51 passages)
Studiousness (3 passages)
The Sinfulness of Pollution (69 passages)
Custody of the Eyes (72 passages)
Modesty of Conduct (105 passages)
Eutrapelia (Recreation and Jesting) (66 passages) 2 subtopics
Impure Rejoicing (1 passage)
Moral Species of Lewdness (1 passage)
Modesty of Attire (247 passages)
Modest Relaxation (28 passages)
Silence and the Custody of the Tongue (30 passages)
Solitude and Recollection (25 passages)
Complements of Temperance (52 passages)
Continence (62 passages)
The Potential Parts of Temperance (65 passages)
Mortification (Self-denial) (265 passages) 2 subtopics
Interior Mortification (46 passages)
Exterior Mortification (125 passages)
Insensibility (18 passages)
The Moral Order (83 passages)
Grace (709 passages) 7 subtopics
The States of Human Nature (67 passages)
The Necessity of Grace (144 passages)
The Essence and Divisions of Grace (220 passages) 2 subtopics
The cause of grace (122 passages)
Grace gratuitously given (gratia gratis data) (10 passages)
Sufficient and Efficacious Grace (160 passages)
The Justification of the Sinner (99 passages)
The Theological Virtues (11071 passages) 90 subtopics
Faith (4989 passages) 34 subtopics
Necessity of Faith (861 passages) 3 subtopics
Faith as necessary for salvation (111 passages)
When acts of faith are obliged (72 passages)
The Truths Necessarily to Be Believed (658 passages)
External Profession of the Faith (579 passages) 3 subtopics
The duty of professing the faith (110 passages)
Sharing in non-Catholic worship (349 passages) 1 subtopics
Liberty of worship (116 passages)
Sins against Faith (1812 passages) 18 subtopics
Infidelity (221 passages)
Heresy (434 passages)
Apostasy (62 passages)
Schism (99 passages) 1 subtopics
The Reunion of Christendom (19 passages)
Dangerous Communication (99 passages)
Contention (31 passages)
Credulity and Rationalism (30 passages)
Emulation (4 passages)
Indignation (6 passages)
Persons Scandalized (29 passages)
Sedition (47 passages)
The Denial of Faith (14 passages)
Apostasy from Faith and on Heresy (161 passages)
Doubt in Faith (36 passages)
Modernism (7 passages)
Indifferentism (25 passages)
Liberalism (84 passages)
What faith is (569 passages)
Dangers to the Faith (315 passages) 1 subtopics
The Propagation of Faith (38 passages)
The Commandment of Internal Acts of Faith (112 passages)
The Commandment of Knowledge of Faith (168 passages)
The Habit of Faith (377 passages)
The Motives of Credibility (415 passages)
Hope (872 passages) 2 subtopics
What hope is and its necessity (435 passages)
Sins against hope (180 passages)
Charity (5117 passages) 51 subtopics
Almsgiving (711 passages) 2 subtopics
The obligation of almsgiving (307 passages)
Extreme, grave and common necessity (185 passages)
Fraternal Correction (395 passages) 2 subtopics
When fraternal correction is obliged (156 passages)
The manner of correction and denunciation (65 passages)
Scandal (756 passages) 5 subtopics
What scandal is (95 passages)
Avoiding and removing scandal (136 passages)
Testing a suspect and diverting a sinner to a lesser sin (40 passages)
Duty of Repairing Scandal (60 passages)
Induction (6 passages)
Co-operation in Another's Sin (687 passages) 9 subtopics
Formal and material co-operation (99 passages) 1 subtopics
Lawfulness of Immediate Cooperation (2 passages)
Applications: Cases of Cooperation (220 passages) 5 subtopics
Diverse Cooperations, Considered according to the Diversity of the Evil in which One Concurs (16 passages) 1 subtopics
Cooperation in Defamation (9 passages)
Different Cooperations, Considered according to the Different Condition of Those Cooperating (3 passages)
Cooperation in Reading Matter (35 passages)
Cooperation With Contraception (7 passages)
Duties of the Confessor as Regards Cooperation (2 passages)
What charity is (530 passages)
The order of charity (370 passages) 3 subtopics
The Order of Charity Between God and Creature (84 passages) 1 subtopics
Hatred of Creatures (8 passages)
The Order of Charity Among Neighbors (86 passages)
Love of enemies (245 passages) 1 subtopics
The Manner of Acting with Enemies (66 passages)
Charity Toward Oneself (109 passages) 1 subtopics
The Commandment of Love of Self (82 passages)
Charity to the Poor (9 passages)
External Effects of Charity (43 passages)
Fulfillment of the Commandments of Charity (69 passages)
Internal Effects of Charity (54 passages)
The Commandment of Love of God (334 passages)
Mercy (55 passages)
Hatred of God (65 passages)
Hate (68 passages)
The Nature of Charity of Neighbor (159 passages)
The Necessity of Charity of God (48 passages)
Sins Against Charity of God (24 passages)
The Subject, Cause, Increase, and Loss of Charity (227 passages)
Tolerance in Private Life (28 passages)
Detachment from Creatures (51 passages)
Zeal (9 passages)
The Acts of Charity Toward One’s Neighbour (129 passages) 1 subtopics
Acts of Helping One's Neighbor Specifically (1 passage)
Sins Against Charity Toward Neighbor (141 passages) 1 subtopics
External Sins (1 passage)
The Commandment of Love of Neighbor (112 passages)
The Spiritual Life (Christian Perfection) (880 passages) 9 subtopics
What Christian Perfection Is (104 passages)
The Obligation of Tending to Perfection (72 passages)
The Desire of Perfection (158 passages)
The Means of Perfection (182 passages)
The Three Degrees of the Spiritual Life (100 passages)
The Active and Contemplative Lives (83 passages)
Contemplation and Mystical Prayer (90 passages)
Visions, Locutions and Revelations (46 passages)
Spiritual Direction (111 passages)
The Commandments of God (41917 passages) 436 subtopics
The Worship of God (First Commandment) (4720 passages) 48 subtopics
Prayer (1603 passages) 15 subtopics
Prayer: its nature and necessity (249 passages)
The qualities of prayer (205 passages)
To whom and for whom we pray (104 passages)
Meditative Prayer (203 passages)
Deprecative Prayer (69 passages)
The Lord's Prayer (402 passages) 7 subtopics
Hallowed be Thy Name (16 passages)
Thy Kingdom Come (33 passages)
Thy Will be Done (38 passages)
Give us this Day our Daily Bread (44 passages)
Forgive us our Trespasses (52 passages)
Lead us not into Temptation (41 passages)
But Deliver us from Evil (32 passages)
Litanies (7 passages)
Thanksgiving (14 passages)
Superstition, Idolatry, and Divination (1025 passages) 14 subtopics
Wrong Ways of Worshipping God (52 passages) 1 subtopics
False and superfluous worship (40 passages)
Idolatry (62 passages) 1 subtopics
Material and formal idolatry (11 passages)
Divination (397 passages) 3 subtopics
Divination and the devil (60 passages)
Dreams and casting lots (52 passages)
Spiritism, mediums, crystal-gazing (100 passages)
Vain Observance (288 passages) 3 subtopics
Charms, spells and magic (137 passages)
Hypnotism (96 passages)
Superstitious Observance in General (37 passages)
What superstition is (42 passages)
Vicious Worship of a Creature (13 passages)
Sacrilege (376 passages) 5 subtopics
What sacrilege is and its gravity (86 passages)
Personal sacrilege (86 passages)
Local sacrilege (101 passages)
Real sacrilege (85 passages) 1 subtopics
Penalties Against Sacrilegious Persons (2 passages)
Simony (802 passages) 4 subtopics
What simony is and its kinds (211 passages)
Mass stipends and stole fees (40 passages)
Penalties of simony (87 passages)
Simony in Beneficiary Matters (58 passages)
The Decalogue and the First Commandment (234 passages)
Worship of the saints, relics and images (301 passages)
Tempting God (107 passages)
Oaths and Vows (Second Commandment) (4167 passages) 23 subtopics
The Irreverent Use of God's Name (33 passages) 1 subtopics
Taking God's name in vain (25 passages)
Blasphemy (374 passages) 2 subtopics
What blasphemy is and its gravity (100 passages)
Cursing and imprecations (110 passages)
Oaths (1286 passages) 7 subtopics
What an oath is (264 passages) 1 subtopics
The Conditions Required for an Oath (119 passages)
The lawfulness of oaths (186 passages)
Promissory oaths (375 passages) 1 subtopics
The Fictitious Oath (129 passages)
When an oath ceases to bind (36 passages)
Perjury (231 passages)
Vows (2389 passages) 7 subtopics
What a vow is (131 passages)
Validity of vows (504 passages)
The obligation of a vow (399 passages)
Annulment, dispensation and commutation of vows (1025 passages) 3 subtopics
Simple Cessation of a Vow (38 passages)
Irritation (Annulment) of Vows (390 passages)
Reserved Vows (74 passages)
The Second Commandment (152 passages)
Praise of God (55 passages)
The Lord's Day (Third Commandment) (1094 passages) 10 subtopics
Hearing Mass of Precept (420 passages) 3 subtopics
The obligation of hearing Mass (69 passages)
Where and how the precept is satisfied (122 passages)
The Causes Excusing from Mass (49 passages)
Servile Work (376 passages) 3 subtopics
What servile work is (162 passages)
Trading and lawsuits on Sunday (40 passages)
What excuses from Sunday rest (82 passages)
The Third Commandment (391 passages) 1 subtopics
The Sanctification of Feast Days (256 passages)
Duties to Parents and Superiors (Fourth Commandment) (4191 passages) 41 subtopics
Duties of Children to Parents (512 passages) 2 subtopics
Love, reverence and obedience owed to parents (195 passages)
Emancipation and the limits of obedience (17 passages)
Duties of Parents to Children (804 passages) 3 subtopics
Support, education and religious training of children (376 passages)
Parental authority (93 passages)
Illegitimate children (77 passages)
Duties of Relatives and Guardians (72 passages) 3 subtopics
Duties of near relatives (26 passages)
Duties of guardians (26 passages) 1 subtopics
Duties of Parents and Guardians (9 passages)
Obligations of Husband and Wife (654 passages) 3 subtopics
The duties of the wife (167 passages)
The duties of the husband (118 passages)
The Duty of Conjugal Companionship and Assistance (157 passages)
The Social Position of Woman (22 passages)
Duties of Masters and Servants (559 passages) 7 subtopics
Duties of servants and workmen (219 passages)
Duties of masters and employers (49 passages)
Strikes and the intervention of the State (101 passages)
Ending the contract of hiring (1 passage)
Labor Disputes (30 passages)
The Duties of Employees (13 passages)
The Duties of Employers (49 passages)
Duties of Masters and Scholars (85 passages) 1 subtopics
Teachers and pupils (81 passages)
Duties of Ecclesiastical and Civil Rulers and their Subjects (1309 passages) 12 subtopics
Duties of pastors and of the faithful toward them (54 passages) 1 subtopics
General Duties of the Faithful (1 passage)
Civil authority and the duties of citizens (908 passages) 5 subtopics
Voting (9 passages)
The Origin of Civil Power and the Social Contract (176 passages)
Liberty of Opinion (10 passages)
Civil Tolerance (165 passages)
The History of Civil Tolerance (289 passages)
The Duties of Subjects (31 passages)
Ecclesiastical Tolerance (85 passages)
The Coercive Power of the Church (95 passages)
The Inquisition (176 passages)
The Fourth Commandment (516 passages)
Duties of Electors and Deputies (16 passages)
Life and Bodily Integrity (Fifth Commandment) (3226 passages) 32 subtopics
Homicide (373 passages)
Care of the Body and of Health (263 passages)
Development of the Mind (19 passages)
Suicide and the Preservation of Life (450 passages) 5 subtopics
Suicide forbidden (66 passages)
Risking or shortening one's life for a good reason (55 passages)
Mutilation (203 passages) 1 subtopics
Bodily Injury (44 passages)
Ordinary and extraordinary means of preserving life (29 passages)
Capital Punishment (131 passages) 1 subtopics
The State's right to inflict death (73 passages)
Justifiable Homicide and Self-Defence (226 passages) 3 subtopics
Killing an unjust aggressor in self-defence (140 passages)
Defence of limb, chastity and property (59 passages)
Defence of others (21 passages)
Killing the Innocent (1026 passages) 4 subtopics
Direct and indirect killing of the innocent (312 passages)
Casual homicide (22 passages)
Abortion (705 passages)
Craniotomy and similar operations (170 passages)
Duelling (293 passages) 3 subtopics
What a duel is and why it is forbidden (168 passages)
Penalties of duelling (70 passages)
Fighting (26 passages)
War (419 passages) 5 subtopics
Defensive and offensive war (113 passages)
The conditions of a just war (133 passages)
Soldiers and the justice of a war (46 passages)
Lawful means in war (45 passages)
Sedition and Tyrannicide (33 passages)
The Fifth Commandment (208 passages)
Imprisonment (9 passages)
Chastity (Sixth and Ninth Commandments) (3968 passages) 36 subtopics
The Nature of Impurity (492 passages) 3 subtopics
The purpose of the sexual faculty and its lawful use (137 passages)
No light matter in impurity (133 passages)
Temptations to Impurity (40 passages)
Consummated Sins of Impurity (978 passages) 9 subtopics
Fornication (177 passages)
Adultery (231 passages)
Incest (105 passages)
Criminal assault and rape (109 passages)
Sacrilege by carnal sin (78 passages)
Stuprum (Seduction) (138 passages) 1 subtopics
Rape (Violent Defloration) (46 passages)
Prostitution (70 passages)
Consummated Sins against Nature (755 passages) 6 subtopics
Self-abuse (de pollutione) (572 passages) 3 subtopics
What it is and its gravity (167 passages)
Indirectly voluntary (132 passages)
Pollution (245 passages)
Sodomy (122 passages)
Bestiality (85 passages)
Non-consummated Acts of Impurity (542 passages) 3 subtopics
Immodest touches (127 passages)
Kissing and embracing (128 passages)
How non-consummated sins are distinguished (20 passages)
The Sixth and Ninth Commandments (686 passages)
Instruction in Relation to Chastity (290 passages) 1 subtopics
Sex Education (118 passages)
Chastity Insofar as It Regards Venereal Things (375 passages) 3 subtopics
The Opposite Vice, or Lust (371 passages) 2 subtopics
Natural Consummated Lust (143 passages)
Unnatural Consummated Lust (227 passages)
Chastity Insofar as It Regards Acts which Are Ordered to Venereal Things, or on Pudicity (155 passages) 2 subtopics
The Opposite Vice, or Immodesty (153 passages) 1 subtopics
Immodesty: particular cases (38 passages)
Justice and Rights (Seventh and Tenth Commandments) (18480 passages) 208 subtopics
Ownership and Property (5479 passages) 49 subtopics
Nature of Justice and Right (2008 passages) 9 subtopics
Justice and its species (243 passages) 1 subtopics
The Vices Against Commutative Justice (19 passages)
Rights (1511 passages) 6 subtopics
Ownership Generally (1171 passages) 2 subtopics
The Origin of Ownership in External Things (361 passages)
The Ownership of Sons Under Family Power (141 passages)
The Collision of Duties and Rights (29 passages)
Duties toward Animals (55 passages)
Slavery (88 passages)
Objects of Ownership (135 passages) 2 subtopics
What may be owned (75 passages)
Copyright and patent (property in ideas) (58 passages)
Who May Own Property (683 passages) 11 subtopics
General Principles (43 passages) 1 subtopics
Who can own property (24 passages)
Property Rights of Minors (95 passages) 1 subtopics
A minor's property and earnings (66 passages)
Property Rights of Married Women (229 passages) 1 subtopics
A married woman's property (173 passages)
Property Rights of the Church (130 passages) 2 subtopics
The Church's right to own property (84 passages)
The use of Church revenues (38 passages)
Property Rights of Clerics (198 passages) 1 subtopics
The property of clerics (109 passages)
Title to Property (1103 passages) 14 subtopics
Occupation (441 passages) 5 subtopics
Occupation and things found (119 passages)
Lost property (124 passages)
Property in animals; game and poaching (70 passages)
The Occupation of Treasure (62 passages)
Lawful Occupation (18 passages)
Accession (156 passages) 1 subtopics
Accession: fruits and additions (57 passages)
Prescription (477 passages) 4 subtopics
What prescription is (19 passages)
The conditions of prescription (131 passages)
Acquisitive Prescription (228 passages)
Liberative Prescription (36 passages)
The kinds of title (32 passages)
Limited Ownership: Usufruct, Use, Servitude, Possession (183 passages) 4 subtopics
Usufruct (64 passages)
The Right of Use (26 passages)
Servitudes (Easements) (40 passages)
Possession (55 passages)
Production and Specification (39 passages)
Capital, Wages and Socialism (1420 passages)
Landed Property and the Land Question (120 passages)
The Temporal Goods of the Church (228 passages)
Theft and Unjust Damage (1122 passages) 8 subtopics
Injuries in General (263 passages) 3 subtopics
Kinds of injustice (190 passages) 2 subtopics
Judicial Injustice (12 passages)
Restitution for Cooperation in Injustice (46 passages)
Theft (658 passages) 3 subtopics
What theft is and its gravity (140 passages)
Grave matter in theft (254 passages)
Small thefts that coalesce (90 passages)
Restitution (4337 passages) 60 subtopics
Restitution in General (1415 passages) 21 subtopics
Why restitution is owed (923 passages) 16 subtopics
Unjust Possessors (59 passages)
Those who Merely Inflicted Damage (144 passages)
Those who Impede Another from Obtaining a Good (38 passages)
Those who Cooperate in Injustice (480 passages) 12 subtopics
Positive Cooperators (299 passages) 7 subtopics
The One Commanding (48 passages)
The One Counseling (86 passages)
The One Consenting (53 passages)
The Flatterer (32 passages)
The Receiver (40 passages) 1 subtopics
The Flatterer, the Receiver, and the Participant (6 passages)
The Participant (44 passages)
Negative Cooperators (59 passages)
The Measure and Order by which Cooperators Are Held to Restitution (106 passages) 2 subtopics
The Doubtful Damager (9 passages)
The Mode of Restitution (19 passages)
Causes Extinguishing or Suspending the Obligation of Restitution (125 passages) 2 subtopics
Condonation (33 passages)
First Root of Restitution (618 passages) 7 subtopics
Possession of Another's Property in Good Faith (210 passages) 1 subtopics
What the good-faith possessor must restore (67 passages)
Possession of Another's Property in Bad Faith (242 passages) 1 subtopics
What the bad-faith possessor must restore (167 passages)
Possession of Property in Doubtful Faith (107 passages) 1 subtopics
The possessor in doubtful faith (93 passages)
Possession of another's property without title (163 passages)
Second Root of Restitution (1002 passages) 8 subtopics
Damnification in General (227 passages) 1 subtopics
When unjust damage obliges restitution (181 passages)
Particular Cases of Damnification (642 passages) 5 subtopics
Damage to spiritual and mental goods (72 passages)
Damage to life and limb (104 passages)
Damage to reputation (213 passages) 1 subtopics
Defamation (120 passages)
Restitution after fornication, seduction, rape and adultery (210 passages)
Co-operation in Injustice (269 passages) 3 subtopics
Co-operation by counsel and command (49 passages)
Negative co-operation (silence, not preventing) (21 passages)
Circumstances of Restitution (824 passages) 11 subtopics
To Whom Restitution is to be Made (162 passages)
How Much is to be Restored (73 passages) 1 subtopics
The measure of restitution (45 passages)
Order of Making Restitution (252 passages) 2 subtopics
Order among co-operators (45 passages)
Order among creditors; bankruptcy (146 passages)
Manner of Making Restitution (112 passages) 1 subtopics
The manner of restitution (41 passages)
Time and Place of Making Restitution (125 passages) 1 subtopics
When and where restitution is made (90 passages)
Some Special Cases of Restitution (62 passages)
Causes Which Excuse from Making Restitution (202 passages) 2 subtopics
What excuses from restitution (138 passages)
Composition (26 passages)
Occult Compensation (140 passages) 1 subtopics
Occult compensation and its conditions (62 passages)
Contracts (7058 passages) 78 subtopics
Promises, Gifts, and Wills (690 passages) 4 subtopics
Simple promises (150 passages) 1 subtopics
Breach of Promise (74 passages)
Gifts (421 passages) 1 subtopics
Donation for a Pious Cause (40 passages)
Loans (Mutuum and Commodatum) (274 passages) 2 subtopics
Mutuum: the loan of fungibles (208 passages) 1 subtopics
Pecuniary Mutuum (60 passages)
Usury and Interest (814 passages) 1 subtopics
Usury and the titles to interest (527 passages)
Buying and Selling (1133 passages) 9 subtopics
Sale of Goods (559 passages) 3 subtopics
The price of goods (344 passages)
When property in goods passes (29 passages)
Duties of seller and buyer (92 passages)
Sale of Real Property (4 passages) 1 subtopics
Sale of land (4 passages)
What sale is (76 passages)
Sale by auction (71 passages)
Brokers and Agents (50 passages)
Partnership, Insurance, and Speculation (359 passages) 4 subtopics
Partnership (165 passages) 1 subtopics
The Contract of Partnership (121 passages)
Insurance (159 passages) 1 subtopics
Life Insurance (87 passages)
The nature of contract (280 passages)
Consent in contracts (415 passages) 5 subtopics
Mistake in contracts (98 passages)
Fraud and duress (207 passages)
The Qualities of Consent (106 passages)
The Obstacles of Consent (17 passages)
Conditioned Consent (2 passages)
Capacity of the parties (166 passages)
The matter of a contract (135 passages) 1 subtopics
Consideration and the effects of contract (254 passages) 9 subtopics
Conditional contracts and earnest money (33 passages)
The Effects of a Contract under a Condition (12 passages)
The Effects of a Contract under a Mode (35 passages)
The Effects of a Contract for a Cause (3 passages)
The Effects of a Contract for a Day (1 passage)
The Effects of an Alternative Contract (1 passage)
The Effects of a Contract under a Penalty (2 passages)
The Effects of a Contract Confirmed by Oath (99 passages) 1 subtopics
A Contract Void by Civil Law (71 passages)
How a contract is discharged (52 passages)
Wills (998 passages) 9 subtopics
Formalities and capacity for wills (221 passages)
Freedom of bequest and duty to one's family (77 passages)
Revocation of wills; executors (39 passages)
Hereditary Succession Generally (94 passages)
Testamentary Succession (81 passages)
Legacies (101 passages)
Legal Succession or Succession Ab Intestato (58 passages)
A Testament and Legacy for Pious Causes (56 passages)
Fideicommissum (Trust) (16 passages)
Monopolies (104 passages)
Bailment (38 passages)
Principal and agent (46 passages)
Leases (237 passages) 1 subtopics
In Renting (10 passages)
Lotteries, gaming and wagering (246 passages)
Deposit, Sequestration, Commodatum and Precarium (160 passages)
The Contract of Work and Labour (475 passages) 3 subtopics
The Contract of Rendering Certain Services (16 passages)
Employment (16 passages)
The Wage of Workers (242 passages)
Census and Annuities (162 passages)
Exchange (183 passages)
Mandate and the Management of Affairs (116 passages)
Stock-Exchange Dealings (167 passages) 1 subtopics
Trading (40 passages)
Settlement and Arbitration (49 passages)
Suretyship, Pledge and Hypothec (179 passages) 3 subtopics
Suretyship (Guaranteeing a Debt) (100 passages)
Pledge (Pawn) (54 passages)
Hypothec (Mortgage) (47 passages)
Fraud in Contracts (76 passages)
The Seventh and Tenth Commandments (536 passages)
Distributive Justice (287 passages) 1 subtopics
The Vice Against Distributive Justice (194 passages)
Legal Justice: Taxes, Military Service, Social Laws (406 passages) 4 subtopics
Succession Tax (68 passages)
The Observance of Other Social Laws (78 passages)
The Obligation of Furnishing Military Service (34 passages)
The Obligation of Paying Taxes (249 passages)
The Right of Association (84 passages)
Truthfulness and Reputation (Eighth Commandment) (2284 passages) 30 subtopics
Rash Judgement (252 passages) 4 subtopics
What rash judgement is and its gravity (62 passages)
When thinking ill of another is no sin (50 passages)
Whispering (Tale-bearing) (86 passages) 1 subtopics
Discord (41 passages)
Detraction and Calumny (698 passages) 7 subtopics
Detraction, calumny and tale-bearing (111 passages)
When another's faults may be made known (110 passages)
Listening to detraction (27 passages)
Reparation for detraction (160 passages)
The Notion, Division, and Morality of Detraction (149 passages)
In Sales (51 passages)
Murmuring (1 passage)
Contumely (188 passages) 3 subtopics
What contumely is and its gravity (95 passages)
Satisfaction for insults (57 passages)
Derision (55 passages)
Lying and Mental Reservation (731 passages) 3 subtopics
What a lie is (118 passages)
Lying always unlawful (286 passages)
Mental reservation (270 passages)
Secrets (318 passages) 4 subtopics
Kinds of secrets (132 passages) 1 subtopics
Violation of Secret (86 passages)
When a secret may or must be revealed (99 passages)
Reading another's letters (52 passages)
The Eighth Commandment (167 passages)
Braggadocio and Irony (31 passages)
Hypocrisy (41 passages)
The Right to Honor and Reputation (107 passages)
The Commandments of the Church (2541 passages) 37 subtopics
Holy Days of Obligation (77 passages)
Gravity of the First Precept (1 passage)
Fasting and Abstinence (1127 passages) 5 subtopics
Why the Church commands fasting and abstinence (71 passages)
The law of abstinence (199 passages)
The law of fasting (368 passages)
Dispensation from Abstinence and Fasting (29 passages)
Causes Excusing from Fasting (139 passages)
Annual Confession and Easter Communion (240 passages) 2 subtopics
Annual confession (96 passages)
Easter Communion (141 passages)
The six commandments of the Church (135 passages)
Support of pastors (200 passages)
Fifth and Sixth Precepts (1 passage)
Censorship and Prohibition of Books (765 passages) 21 subtopics
The Prior Censorship of Books (134 passages) 4 subtopics
The Prelates Set Over the Censure of Books (18 passages)
The Office of Censors (5 passages)
Books to Be Submitted to Previous Censure (44 passages)
Typographers and Editors of Books (9 passages)
Prohibited Books (472 passages) 10 subtopics
Books Prohibited by Particular Decree (24 passages)
Books of Apostates, Heretics and Schismatics (58 passages)
Editions and Versions of Sacred Scripture (22 passages)
Obscene Books (48 passages)
Books of Special Subject Matter (18 passages)
Sacred Images and Indulgences in Print (15 passages)
Liturgical and Prayer Books (16 passages)
Newspapers, Sheets and Periodical Booklets (11 passages)
The Faculty of Reading and Retaining Prohibited Books (41 passages)
The Denunciation of Bad Books (9 passages)
The History of Prohibition and Censorship (22 passages)
The Force and Interpretation of These Laws (42 passages)
What the Prohibition of a Book Forbids (18 passages)
Obligation of Conscience and Gravity of Fault (23 passages)
By What Power Books Are Prohibited (11 passages)
The Prohibition of Cremating Corpses (22 passages)
Duties of Particular States and Offices (8943 passages) 98 subtopics
Choice of a Vocation (50 passages)
The Duty of Labor (82 passages)
Duties of Certain Laymen (2016 passages) 19 subtopics
Duties of Judges (724 passages) 4 subtopics
The judge's competence and just sentence (246 passages)
Judging by the evidence, not private knowledge (94 passages)
The judge and unjust laws (65 passages)
Arbitrators, referees and jurymen (23 passages)
Duties of Advocates (276 passages) 3 subtopics
The advocate and unjust causes (67 passages)
The advocate's duties to his client (72 passages)
In Lawyers (16 passages)
Prosecutors, Defendants, and Witnesses (731 passages) 3 subtopics
Prosecutors and accusers (153 passages)
The accused (256 passages)
Witnesses (335 passages)
Medical Men (232 passages) 3 subtopics
The doctor's competence, care and fees (44 passages)
Doubtful and dangerous remedies (33 passages)
The doctor and the dying (34 passages)
The Duties of Certain Professions (70 passages)
Innkeepers and Victuallers (21 passages)
Special Duties of Clerics (2988 passages) 46 subtopics
Holiness of Life (191 passages) 2 subtopics
Holiness required of clerics; the state of perfection (140 passages) 1 subtopics
Vocation to the Clerical State (65 passages)
Celibacy of the Clergy (226 passages) 2 subtopics
The law of celibacy (44 passages)
Celibacy: ecclesiastical law or tacit vow? (15 passages)
Clerical Dress (82 passages) 1 subtopics
Clerical dress and tonsure (67 passages)
Divine Office (821 passages) 8 subtopics
Who is bound to say the office, and how gravely (89 passages)
The breviary, the calendar and the order of Hours (30 passages)
How the office must be said (259 passages)
The Object of the Precept (16 passages) 2 subtopics
The Matter to Be Recited (15 passages) 1 subtopics
The Form of the Divine Office (14 passages)
The Obligation of the Precept (71 passages)
The Causes Excusing from the Obligation (71 passages)
Things Forbidden to Clerics (328 passages) 5 subtopics
Secular business, offices and Parliament (55 passages)
Women in the houses of clerics (47 passages)
Theatres, dances, military service and trade (34 passages)
Forbidden Societies (25 passages)
Stocks and Bonds (2 passages)
The Rights and Privileges of Clerics (56 passages)
Benefices (522 passages) 4 subtopics
What a benefice is and its dowry (12 passages)
Use of the fruits of a benefice (24 passages)
Duties of the beneficiary (35 passages)
Beneficence (7 passages)
Special Duties of Bishops (282 passages) 1 subtopics
Residence, visitation and the other duties of bishops (40 passages)
Duties of Canons (158 passages) 1 subtopics
Canons of cathedral chapters (25 passages)
Duties of Parish Priests (319 passages) 6 subtopics
The parochial system (1 passage)
Residence of the parish priest (43 passages)
Preaching and catechizing (91 passages)
Knowing, visiting and correcting the flock (38 passages)
Recapitulation (1 passage)
Regulae Pro Confessariis (1 passage)
Priests without Special Charge (98 passages) 1 subtopics
Ordination, incardination and the unattached priest (95 passages)
The Reduction of a Cleric to the Lay State (3 passages)
Duties of Clerical Superiors (43 passages)
Positive Duties of Clerics (229 passages)
The Obligation of Expending Superfluous Goods (50 passages)
Special Duties of Religious (3091 passages) 27 subtopics
Nature of the Religious State (1189 passages) 4 subtopics
The religious state and the obligations it brings (754 passages) 2 subtopics
The Privileges of Religious (60 passages)
The Obligation of Marrying (18 passages)
Cooperation in Religious Activities (12 passages)
Entrance into Religion (393 passages) 6 subtopics
Who may enter religion (96 passages)
Admission of girls and boys (2 passages)
Vocation to Religion (134 passages)
Admission Itself into Religion (106 passages) 2 subtopics
Postulancy (6 passages)
The Novitiate (91 passages)
Religious Profession (168 passages) 3 subtopics
Validity of religious profession (62 passages)
Profession in Danger of Death (1 passage)
Dangers of Profession of Unbelief (1 passage)
Religious Poverty (624 passages) 4 subtopics
The vow of poverty and sins against it (219 passages)
The peculium (22 passages)
Common Life (85 passages)
Peace (16 passages)
Vow of Chastity (311 passages) 2 subtopics
The vow of chastity and marriage (73 passages)
Enclosure (90 passages)
Vow of Obedience (283 passages) 1 subtopics
The vow of obedience and sins against it (126 passages)
Regulars (369 passages)
Why states and offices bring special duties (75 passages)
The Sacraments (40675 passages) 487 subtopics
The Sacraments in General (2829 passages) 42 subtopics
The Nature of a Sacrament (830 passages) 6 subtopics
What a sacrament is; the seven sacraments (304 passages)
The sacramental character (68 passages)
Sacramental grace (106 passages)
Necessity of the sacraments (220 passages)
Denial of Sacraments in Case of Scandal (48 passages)
The Sacrament of the Eucharist (182 passages)
The Matter and Form of the Sacraments (250 passages) 3 subtopics
Matter, form and minister (58 passages)
Using probable matter or form (76 passages)
Unity of matter and form; conditional administration (56 passages)
The Minister of the Sacraments (570 passages) 18 subtopics
The Attention and Intention of the Minister (155 passages) 4 subtopics
The minister's attention (55 passages)
The minister's intention (90 passages) 1 subtopics
The Simulated Administration of a Sacrament (60 passages)
The Faith and Holiness of the Minister (107 passages) 2 subtopics
Administering in the state of mortal sin (58 passages)
The Duty of Administering the Sacraments (73 passages) 2 subtopics
The duty of pastors to administer the sacraments (17 passages)
Duties of Adult Recipients (1 passage)
The Duty of Refusing the Sacraments to the Unworthy (95 passages) 1 subtopics
Refusing the sacraments to the unworthy (66 passages)
The Mode of Ministering (31 passages) 1 subtopics
The Requisites for Valid Ministration (20 passages)
Obligations of the Minister in Reference to the Recipient (32 passages) 2 subtopics
The Obligation of Knowing the Cause (1 passage)
The Obligation of Judging the Disposition (23 passages)
The Recipient of the Sacraments (174 passages) 5 subtopics
Who can validly receive a sacrament (61 passages)
The dispositions required of the recipient (74 passages) 2 subtopics
The Requisites for Valid Reception (41 passages)
The Requisites for Licit Reception (25 passages)
Informity and Reviviscence of the Sacraments (49 passages)
Doubtfully Valid Sacraments and Their Repetition (60 passages)
Chrism and the Holy Oils (41 passages)
Baptism (2200 passages) 27 subtopics
The Nature of Baptism (481 passages) 8 subtopics
What Baptism is and its necessity (107 passages) 4 subtopics
Necessity of Means (36 passages) 2 subtopics
Baptism of Desire (21 passages)
Baptism of Blood (25 passages)
Necessity of Baptism by Precept (17 passages)
Solemn and Private Baptism (35 passages)
Repetition of Baptism (48 passages)
The Ceremonies of Baptism (115 passages)
The Matter and Form of Baptism (344 passages) 2 subtopics
The matter of Baptism (133 passages)
The form of Baptism (153 passages)
The Minister of Baptism (229 passages) 3 subtopics
The minister of solemn and of private Baptism (72 passages)
The ceremonies and the place of Baptism (43 passages)
The Manner of Administering Baptism (6 passages)
The Sponsors (144 passages) 2 subtopics
The office and number of sponsors (49 passages)
Who may be a sponsor (74 passages)
Who May be Baptized (693 passages) 6 subtopics
Capacity and intention for Baptism (144 passages)
Baptism of children; delay (140 passages)
Rebaptism and conditional Baptism (58 passages)
Baptism of the unborn, the aborted, and monsters (227 passages) 1 subtopics
Caesarean Section and Other Incisions (116 passages)
Fetuses to Be Baptized (86 passages)
The Notation and Proof of Baptism (9 passages)
Confirmation (671 passages) 8 subtopics
The Matter of Confirmation (204 passages) 2 subtopics
Confirmation: its nature, matter and form (106 passages)
The Ceremonies of Confirmation (53 passages)
The Minister of Confirmation (139 passages) 1 subtopics
Who may confirm, and where (91 passages)
The Subject of Confirmation (137 passages) 1 subtopics
The subject of Confirmation and its sponsor (46 passages)
The Existence of the Sacrament of Confirmation (31 passages)
The Holy Eucharist (5883 passages) 73 subtopics
Holy Communion (1131 passages) 13 subtopics
The Necessity of the Eucharist (205 passages) 5 subtopics
Ways of receiving; the necessity of Communion (36 passages)
First Communion and the age of discretion (49 passages)
Necessity of Divine Precept (18 passages)
The Custody and Worship of the Eucharist (42 passages)
The Dispositions Requisite for the Reception of the Eucharist (679 passages) 5 subtopics
The Dispositions of the Soul (337 passages) 2 subtopics
The state of grace for Communion (257 passages) 1 subtopics
Frequent and Daily Communion (192 passages)
The Dispositions of the Body (225 passages) 1 subtopics
Bodily reverence and the Eucharistic fast (213 passages)
Worthy Communion (125 passages)
The Sacrifice of the Mass (3244 passages) 41 subtopics
The Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass (1025 passages) 7 subtopics
The Mass a true sacrifice (116 passages)
For whom Mass may be offered (57 passages)
The fruits of the Mass (154 passages)
The Circumstances of Mass (70 passages)
The Communicant (42 passages)
The Minister of Consecration (68 passages)
The Sacrifice of the Mass; the Celebrant (37 passages)
The Application of Mass (324 passages) 1 subtopics
How Mass is applied (27 passages)
The Obligation of Applying Mass (619 passages) 8 subtopics
Obligations from benefice, precept and promise (132 passages)
Mass stipends (425 passages) 5 subtopics
The Distribution and Transmission of Masses (51 passages)
Abuses to Be Avoided in Accepting Stipends (40 passages)
The Safeguards of the Law (23 passages) 1 subtopics
Pious Foundations (16 passages)
The Obligation of Saying Mass (56 passages)
The Time for Saying Mass (192 passages) 2 subtopics
Mass once a day; bination (90 passages)
The hours for Mass (50 passages)
Where Mass may be Said (203 passages) 3 subtopics
Churches, oratories and altars (136 passages)
Pollution and reconciliation of a church (8 passages)
Loss of consecration of vessels and vestments (2 passages)
Requisites for Saying Mass (224 passages) 2 subtopics
Altar cloths, candles, chalice and paten (63 passages)
Vestments, the server, and their obligation (70 passages)
The Rubrics of the Missal (318 passages) 7 subtopics
The obligation of the rubrics (5 passages)
Interrupting or breaking off Mass (45 passages)
The Altar and its Ornament (25 passages)
Sacred Vessels with Accessories (21 passages)
Sacred Vestments (19 passages)
Rubrics to Be Observed (54 passages) 1 subtopics
The Dispositions of the One Offering Mass (49 passages)
The Oblation of the Sacrifice of the Mass (46 passages) 2 subtopics
The Obligation of Offering (1 passage)
The Real Presence and the effects of the Eucharist (379 passages)
The matter and form of the Eucharist (571 passages) 4 subtopics
The Remote Matter of the Eucharist (318 passages) 3 subtopics
The Matter of Bread (71 passages)
The Matter of Wine (82 passages) 1 subtopics
The minister of the Eucharist (406 passages) 8 subtopics
The Confection of the Most Holy Sacrament (22 passages)
The Dispensation of the Most Holy Sacrament (248 passages) 6 subtopics
The Person Dispensing (31 passages)
The Things to Be Observed in the Dispensation of the Holy Eucharist (203 passages) 4 subtopics
The Time of Dispensing the Holy Eucharist (8 passages)
The Place of Dispensing the Holy Eucharist (4 passages)
The Mode of Dispensing the Holy Eucharist (62 passages)
The Mode of Carrying the Holy Eucharist to the Sick (105 passages)
Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament (99 passages)
The Reception of the Most Holy Sacrament (18 passages)
Penance and Confession (10964 passages) 106 subtopics
The necessity of confession (286 passages)
What Penance forgives (178 passages) 7 subtopics
The Remission of Mortal Sins (27 passages)
The Conferral of Sanctifying Grace (23 passages)
The Remission of Venial Sins (36 passages)
The Remission of Punishment (31 passages)
The Reviviscence of Merits (28 passages)
The condition required for remission (18 passages)
The remission itself of sin (1 passage)
Necessary and free matter (190 passages)
Doubtful sins (98 passages)
Confession after doubtful or conditional Baptism (22 passages)
Contrition and Purpose of Amendment (1056 passages) 7 subtopics
What sorrow suffices: contrition and attrition (284 passages)
Sorrow expressed and present at absolution (87 passages)
Valid but unfruitful absolution (2 passages)
Attrition and the dying (64 passages)
The purpose of amendment (142 passages) 1 subtopics
Sorrow and Purpose Regarding Venial Sins (37 passages)
Contrition Taken Integrally (39 passages)
Confession (1357 passages) 11 subtopics
Integrity: What Must Be Confessed (682 passages) 5 subtopics
Circumstances and number of sins (162 passages)
What excuses from a full confession (174 passages)
The Scope of Material Integrity (75 passages) 1 subtopics
Injury to Truth in Confessing (31 passages)
Invalid Confessions and General Confession (206 passages)
Confession by signs, writing, letter or telephone (67 passages)
The Qualities of Confession Generally (87 passages)
Abuses of Confession (6 passages)
Duties of Parents, Pastors, Confessors (52 passages)
Satisfaction (693 passages) 8 subtopics
The nature of sacramental satisfaction (384 passages) 2 subtopics
Imposing Satisfaction (197 passages)
Commuting Satisfaction (33 passages)
The obligation to perform the penance (84 passages)
A penance performed in the state of sin (45 passages)
Changing or commuting the penance (40 passages)
The Notion and Efficacy of Satisfaction (83 passages)
The Obligation of Accepting and Fulfilling Satisfaction (136 passages)
Absolution (884 passages) 6 subtopics
The words of absolution (338 passages)
The knowledge the priest needs before absolving (9 passages)
Absolving the dying and the unconscious (218 passages)
Absolution Without Jurisdiction (42 passages)
The Obligation of Absolving (159 passages)
Conditional Absolution (139 passages)
The Care of the Dying (57 passages)
The Office of the Confessor (3534 passages) 28 subtopics
The powers of Orders and of jurisdiction (517 passages)
Duties of the Confessor Before Confession (93 passages)
Duties of the Confessor After Confession (45 passages)
Duties of the Confessor as Judge (182 passages)
Duties of the Confessor as Physician (73 passages)
Duties of the Confessor as Teacher and Guide (136 passages)
The confessor as spiritual father (95 passages)
Recidivists and habitual sinners (328 passages)
Occasions of sin and absolution (288 passages)
Instructing the ignorant penitent (122 passages)
Questioning the penitent (300 passages)
Mistakes of the confessor and restitution (96 passages)
Solicitation in confession (597 passages) 6 subtopics
Those who Must Be Denounced (31 passages)
Those who Must Denounce (35 passages)
The Manner of Denouncing (88 passages)
Absolution of an accomplice (329 passages)
The Confession of Children (104 passages)
The Confession of the Rude, Slow and Semi-Feeble (53 passages)
Penitents of Particular Condition (173 passages)
Confession of Baptized Non-Catholics (5 passages)
Things to Be Avoided in Confession (4 passages)
Things to Be Observed After Confession (1 passage)
The Knowledge of the Confessor (131 passages)
The Obligation of Correcting Defects (52 passages)
Jurisdiction and Reserved Cases (1274 passages) 12 subtopics
Jurisdiction to absolve (512 passages) 1 subtopics
The Restriction of Jurisdiction (68 passages)
Confessors of religious (178 passages) 5 subtopics
Confessors to Be Deputed for Religious (128 passages) 4 subtopics
Clerical Religion of Men (27 passages)
Lay Religion of Men (1 passage)
Religion of Women (76 passages)
What sins may be reserved, and by whom (142 passages)
When reservation ceases (29 passages)
Absolution from reserved cases (234 passages) 1 subtopics
Absolution from Episcopal Cases (29 passages)
The Seal of Confession (677 passages) 8 subtopics
The nature and source of the seal (109 passages) 1 subtopics
The Matter of the Seal (35 passages)
Who is bound by the seal (79 passages)
What falls under the seal (102 passages)
Direct and indirect violation (134 passages)
The Obligation of the Sacramental Seal (84 passages)
The Object of the Sacramental Seal (74 passages)
The Penalties Established Against Transgressors (8 passages)
The Act of Doing Penance and Its Effects (174 passages)
Proximate Matter (57 passages)
The Ministration of the Sacrament of Penance (466 passages) 1 subtopics
The Required Power (35 passages)
The Reception of the Sacrament of Penance (55 passages)
Reconciliation (30 passages)
Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick) (792 passages) 10 subtopics
The Nature of Extreme Unction (340 passages) 2 subtopics
Extreme Unction: its institution, matter and form (199 passages)
The Remote Matter (50 passages)
The Minister of Extreme Unction (109 passages) 2 subtopics
Who anoints, and the manner of anointing (37 passages)
The Recipient of Extreme Unction (234 passages) 3 subtopics
Who may receive Extreme Unction (117 passages) 1 subtopics
The Anointing of Baptized Non-Catholics (29 passages)
Repeating Extreme Unction (79 passages)
Holy Orders (2353 passages) 29 subtopics
Irregularities (919 passages) 14 subtopics
Irregularity in General (200 passages) 2 subtopics
What irregularity is (43 passages)
The Hierarchy (77 passages)
Irregularities from Defect (304 passages) 5 subtopics
Defect of birth (illegitimacy) (42 passages)
Bodily defects (24 passages)
Bigamy (a second marriage) (40 passages)
Defect of lenity (13 passages)
Infamy; epilepsy, insanity, possession (2 passages)
Irregularities arising from Crime (224 passages) 1 subtopics
The crimes that make irregular (Can. 985) (24 passages)
Removal of Irregularities (36 passages) 2 subtopics
Who can dispense from irregularities (10 passages)
The petition for dispensation (4 passages)
The nature, matter and form of Orders (289 passages) 2 subtopics
The Existence of the Sacrament of Order (71 passages)
Correcting Defects of Ordinations (41 passages)
The minister of Orders (240 passages) 1 subtopics
The Liceity of Ministering (62 passages)
The subject of Orders (462 passages) 6 subtopics
Who Can Be Ordained Validly (30 passages)
Requisites for Lawful Ordination (118 passages)
Admission and Preparation for Orders (49 passages)
What Must Precede Ordination (96 passages) 1 subtopics
After the Examination (1 passage)
The Record and Testimony of Ordination (8 passages)
The Reception of Order (180 passages) 1 subtopics
Distinctions of Orders (138 passages)
Matrimony (14722 passages) 152 subtopics
Betrothal and Banns (1150 passages) 12 subtopics
What betrothal is and how it is made (138 passages)
The effects of betrothal (99 passages) 2 subtopics
Conditional Betrothals (2 passages) 1 subtopics
Accidental Elements of Betrothals (1 passage)
How betrothal is dissolved (105 passages)
The banns of marriage (301 passages) 2 subtopics
The Obligation of the Faithful to Reveal Impediments (39 passages)
The Obligation of the Confessor regarding Impediments (13 passages)
Instruction of the Couple (32 passages)
Pre-nuptial Investigations (51 passages)
The Duties of Engaged Persons (26 passages)
Examination of the Parties by the Pastor (49 passages)
Impediments of Marriage (4646 passages) 56 subtopics
Impotence (492 passages) 3 subtopics
Kinds of impotence and their effect (181 passages)
Sterility; women after operations (93 passages)
Hermaphroditism (4 passages)
Age (45 passages)
Previous Marriage (78 passages) 1 subtopics
The bond of a previous marriage (49 passages)
Consanguinity (394 passages) 3 subtopics
Consanguinity and its degrees (88 passages)
Names of Blood-Relatives (1 passage)
Consanguinity Insofar as It Is an Impediment of Marriage (16 passages)
Affinity (339 passages) 2 subtopics
Affinity and its degrees (92 passages)
Names of Affines (2 passages)
Spiritual Relationship (221 passages) 1 subtopics
Spiritual relationship from Baptism (51 passages)
Adoption (146 passages) 1 subtopics
Legal adoption as an impediment (75 passages)
Public Propriety (82 passages) 1 subtopics
Public propriety before and under the Code (20 passages)
Solemn Vows and Sacred Orders (257 passages) 2 subtopics
The impediment of orders or vows, and dispensation from it (154 passages)
Sacred Order in the Eastern Churches (1 passage)
Difference of Religion (459 passages) 5 subtopics
Mixed Marriages (313 passages) 2 subtopics
Why mixed marriages are forbidden (71 passages)
Dispensation for a mixed marriage and its conditions (94 passages)
Disparity of Worship (marriage with the unbaptized) (165 passages) 1 subtopics
Disparity of worship (Can. 1070) (72 passages)
Crime (281 passages) 3 subtopics
Adultery with Promise of Marriage (59 passages)
Murder of a Consort (23 passages)
Adultery and Murder (23 passages)
Error, Slavery, Imbecility (155 passages) 2 subtopics
Error of person and of condition (96 passages)
Insanity and marriage (36 passages)
Violence and Fear (93 passages) 1 subtopics
Marriage contracted under grave fear (73 passages)
Abduction (132 passages) 1 subtopics
Abduction as an impediment (62 passages)
Clandestinity (607 passages) 7 subtopics
Clandestine marriage and the form of marriage (547 passages) 6 subtopics
The Ordinary Juridic Form (270 passages) 3 subtopics
The Delegation of Another Priest to Assist at Marriage (41 passages)
The Extraordinary Juridic Form (64 passages)
Those who Are Subject to the Juridic Forms (65 passages)
The impediments in general (338 passages)
The prohibitory impediments (248 passages) 2 subtopics
The Church's prohibition; close time (30 passages)
Simple vows as impediments (41 passages)
A Promise Made to the Partner (2 passages)
A Doubtfully Valid Marriage (51 passages)
Dispensations and Banns (59 passages)
Impedient (Prohibitive) Impediments (23 passages)
Dispensations and Revalidation (1502 passages) 23 subtopics
Who can dispense from diriment impediments (406 passages) 5 subtopics
The Power of the Supreme Pontiff (72 passages)
The Power of Local Ordinaries (34 passages)
The Power of the Pastor and of the Priest Assisting at Marriage according to the Norm of Canon 1098, N. 2 (27 passages)
The Power of the Confessor (48 passages) 1 subtopics
Things to Be Noted Regarding the Power of Dispensing (26 passages)
Causes and execution of matrimonial dispensations (661 passages) 7 subtopics
The Person Petitioning (24 passages)
The Person to Be Approached for the Petition (1 passage)
Drafting the Petition (170 passages) 4 subtopics
The Petition which Regards a Marriage Invalidly Contracted (28 passages) 1 subtopics
Healing Defects of a Dispensation (25 passages)
Revalidation of an invalid marriage (354 passages) 8 subtopics
Simple Convalidation (123 passages) 3 subtopics
Sanation in the Root (88 passages) 3 subtopics
The Convalidation of an Invalid Marriage Between a Catholic Party and a Non-Catholic Party (1 passage)
The Inscription of a Convalidated Marriage (1 passage)
The Mode of Handling a Case of Convalidation (1 passage)
The Marriage Debt (1667 passages) 7 subtopics
The marriage debt: what is owed and what is lawful (482 passages) 2 subtopics
Place and Manner, or Position (67 passages)
The Absence of Harm to Be Averted (8 passages)
Onanism (615 passages) 2 subtopics
Birth-control (149 passages)
Contraception and Onanism (284 passages)
The Impediments of the Conjugal Act (107 passages)
The marriage contract (626 passages) 1 subtopics
Conditional Matrimony (90 passages)
Marriage as a sacrament: minister, matter and form (603 passages) 4 subtopics
The Existence of the Sacrament of Matrimony (92 passages)
The Essence of the Sacrament of Matrimony (116 passages)
The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony (64 passages)
The Reception of the Sacrament of Marriage (68 passages)
Unity and indissolubility of marriage (1071 passages) 6 subtopics
The Pauline Privilege (198 passages)
The Privilege of Faith (126 passages)
The Favor of Law which Belongs to Matrimony (2 passages)
Polygamy and Polyandry (201 passages)
Separation of married people; divorce courts (220 passages)
Doubtful impediments (76 passages)
The Institution, Ends and Goods of Marriage (365 passages)
The Effects of Marriage; Legitimacy (90 passages)
The Liturgical Form, Time and Place of Marriage (612 passages) 3 subtopics
The Rite of Celebration (171 passages)
The Rite of Blessing, or on the Solemn Blessing of Nuptials (64 passages) 1 subtopics
Registration of Marriage; Marriage of Conscience (58 passages)
Prenuptial Examination, Publications and Instruction (69 passages) 8 subtopics
In Latin (1 passage)
In Dutch (1 passage)
In Italian (1 passage)
In French (1 passage)
In German (1 passage)
In English (1 passage)
In Spanish (1 passage)
In Portuguese (1 passage)
Declaration of Nullity (8 passages)
Civil Marriage (356 passages)
Invalid Marriage (5 passages)
Dangerous Marriages (7 passages)
Morality in Marriage (758 passages) 4 subtopics
Use of the Infertile Periods (310 passages) 1 subtopics
Just Cause for Spacing Births (59 passages)
The Emancipation of Women (7 passages)
Relations for Pleasure Alone (Solam Voluptatem) (48 passages)
Religious Preparation for Marriage (28 passages)
The Elements of Matrimony as a Contract (265 passages) 1 subtopics
The Contracting Parties (53 passages)
Eugenics and Sterilization (361 passages)
Divorce (510 passages)
Companionate and Trial Marriage (2 passages)
The Power of the Church Over Matrimony (1150 passages)
Inscribing the Matrimony (7 passages)
The Consent of Parents (57 passages)
Indulgences (1386 passages) 31 subtopics
The Nature of an Indulgence (202 passages) 4 subtopics
Guilt and penalty; the treasury of the Church (7 passages)
Plenary and partial indulgences (22 passages)
Sinful Indulgence (7 passages)
The Indulgence in the Article of Death (68 passages)
Conditions Required for Gaining Indulgences (315 passages) 7 subtopics
Who can gain an indulgence (48 passages)
Fulfilling the prescribed works (83 passages)
Indulgences applied to the souls in purgatory (22 passages)
Indulgenced objects (100 passages) 3 subtopics
The Jubilee (485 passages) 7 subtopics
The jubilee: what it is and its conditions (101 passages) 2 subtopics
The Faculty of Choosing a Confessor (11 passages)
The Special Faculties of Confessors (18 passages)
The Suspension of Indulgences and Faculties on the Occasion of the Jubilee (46 passages) 2 subtopics
The Plenary Indulgence at the Point of Death (29 passages)
*Toties-Quoties* Indulgences (1 passage)
The Granting of Indulgences (73 passages) 1 subtopics
The Privileged Altar (83 passages)
The Way of the Cross (55 passages) 2 subtopics
The Erection of the Way of the Cross (12 passages)
The Papal or Apostolic Blessing (42 passages)
General Absolution with a Plenary Indulgence (6 passages)
The Heroic Act of Charity (21 passages)
Censures and Ecclesiastical Penalties (3260 passages) 77 subtopics
Censures in General (1173 passages) 10 subtopics
The Nature of an Ecclesiastical Censure (594 passages) 6 subtopics
What a censure is and its kinds (35 passages)
Conditions for incurring a censure (61 passages)
Fear and ignorance as excuses from censures (46 passages)
Violation of Censure (3 passages)
Censures Now in Force (357 passages)
The Author of Censure (35 passages)
Absolution of Censures (236 passages) 1 subtopics
How censures are absolved (15 passages)
Contumacy (6 passages)
Excommunication (1492 passages) 42 subtopics
Excommunications Very Specially Reserved to the Holy See (125 passages) 4 subtopics
Profanation of the sacred species (Can. 2320) (3 passages)
Violence to the person of the Pope (Can. 2343 § 1) (2 passages)
Absolving an accomplice (Can. 2367) (103 passages)
Direct violation of the seal (Can. 2369) (9 passages)
Excommunications Specially Reserved to the Holy See (271 passages) 9 subtopics
Apostasy, heresy and schism (Can. 2314) (33 passages)
Books forbidden by name (Can. 2318) (17 passages)
Usurping the goods of the Roman Church (Can. 2345) (14 passages)
Forging papal letters and rescripts (Can. 2360) (71 passages)
False denunciation of solicitation (Can. 2363) (21 passages)
Excommunications Simply Reserved to the Holy See (236 passages) 10 subtopics
Trafficking in indulgences (Can. 2327) (4 passages)
Freemasonry and like societies (Can. 2335) (56 passages)
Violation of enclosure (Cann. 2342, 600–601) (27 passages)
Usurping ecclesiastical property (Can. 2346) (53 passages)
Duelling (Can. 2351) (3 passages)
Simony in offices and benefices (Can. 2392) (2 passages)
Excommunications Reserved to the Ordinary (111 passages) 5 subtopics
False relics (Can. 2326) (1 passage)
Violence to other clerics and religious (Can. 2343 § 4) (31 passages)
Procuring abortion (Can. 2350) (11 passages)
Apostasy from religion (Can. 2385) (2 passages)
Excommunications Reserved to No One (114 passages) 6 subtopics
Absolution from unreserved censures (Can. 2253) (1 passage)
Printing Scripture without leave (Can. 2318 § 2) (6 passages)
Forcing a person into religion (Can. 2352) (4 passages)
Omitting to denounce solicitation (Can. 2368 § 2) (4 passages)
What excommunication is (14 passages)
The effects of excommunication (135 passages)
The censures of the Code: how they are reserved (125 passages)
Suspension (252 passages) 5 subtopics
What suspension is and its effects (79 passages) 1 subtopics
Suspension from Informed Conscience (1 passage)
The special suspensions of the Code (69 passages) 2 subtopics
Suspensions which Are Vindicative Penalties (5 passages)
Interdict (175 passages) 2 subtopics
What interdict is and its effects (46 passages)
The special interdicts of the Code (20 passages)
Deposition, degradation and ecclesiastical burial (146 passages)
Delicts (44 passages) 2 subtopics
The Juridic Effects of Delict (2 passages) 1 subtopics
Attempted Delict (1 passage)
Ecclesiastical Penalties in General (87 passages) 5 subtopics
The Superior Having the Power of Punishing (5 passages) 2 subtopics
The Superior Having Non-Judicial Jurisdiction (1 passage)
The Superior Having Judicial Jurisdiction (1 passage)
The Subject Liable to the Power of Punishing (7 passages)
The Remission of Penalties (1 passage)
Vindicative Penalties (34 passages) 1 subtopics
Common Vindicative Penalties (5 passages)
Penal Remedies and Penances (11 passages)
Penalties Established for Individual Delicts (190 passages)