A Topic of Moral Theology

Bodily Injury

Mutilation, maltreatment and injury to another's health, and when they are sinful.

In the index as Mutilation · Malefactor · Health · Sterilization · Surgical operation · Anger · Animals · Austerity · Beating · Castration · Convulsions · Emasculation · Enfeeblement · Epilepsy · Eugenical Sterilization · Eviration · Excess · Fear · Hysteria · Incarceration · Injuries · Injustice · Joy · Life

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 4. The Vices Opposed …, Bodily Injury, nn. 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870 & 1871 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Vol. V, Pt. I, Ch. IV, Section 8: Duties with Regard to the Bodily Life of Others, nn. ¶12 & ¶13 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Section B: On Justice and …, Ch. I, Question Five: On Harms Which Are Inflicted upon the Members of the Body, nn. ¶1, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373 & 374 (31 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. I, Disputation XXVI: On Homic…, Question XVI: Whether it is lawful to imprison or beat another, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I

Slater, Cases I, The Fifth Commandment, Case 3. Mutilation Unlawful, nn. ¶8 & ¶9 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Mutilation — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)