A Topic of Moral Theology
Causes Excusing from Fasting
What excuses from the fast: labour, poverty, ill health and the other causes proportionate to the precept.
The works themselves ask 21 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Fasting · Labor (Labor) · Ecclesiastical fast (Jejunium Ecclesiasticum) · Excusing causes · The sick (Infirmi) · Workers (Operarii) · Abstinence · Impotence · Servant (Famulus) · Bakers · Children · Convalescents · Dispensation · Journey (Iter) · Old persons · Poor persons · Pregnant woman (Praegnans) · Servants · Age (Aetas) · Artisans · Barbers (Tonsores) · Bishop · Cause (Causa) · Confessor
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part Third. On the Precept…, Book First. On Abstinence …, Question Second. On the Pr…, Article Third. On Causes Excusing from Fasting, n. 687 — 687. Who are excused. In order that someone be excused from fasting, a grave cause proportionate to the gravity of the precept is required. The causes excusing from fasting can be reduced to three: a. weakness of body; b… Read in context →
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. I, Treatise On the Precepts o…, On the Sixth Precept of th…, Chapter II. On the Causes Excusing from Fasting, nn. ¶1, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515 & 516 (48 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Appendix: On the Precepts of God and of the Church, nn. 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125, 1126 & 1127 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XIII, Ch. III, Art. I, § 4. On Causes Excusing from the Law of Fasting and Abstinence, nn. ¶74, 664, 665 & 666 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON THE PRECEPTS O…, CHAPTER II: ON CAUSES EXCUSING FROM FASTING, nn. ¶1, ¶573, ¶574, ¶575, ¶576, ¶577, ¶578 & ¶579 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Pt. II, Section Third: On Ecclesia…, Tractate I: On the Precept…, Ch. I, Article III: On Causes Excusing from Fast, nn. ¶1232, ¶1, ¶1233, ¶1234, ¶2, ¶1235, ¶1236, ¶1237, ¶3, ¶1238, ¶1239, ¶4, ¶1240, ¶1241, ¶1242 & ¶1243 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: On the Virtue…, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article I: On Excusing Cause, or Impotence, nn. 966, 967, 968 & 969 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. VII, On the Second Precept of t…, Chapter II. On Causes Excusing from Fasting, nn. ¶1, 338 & 338, Q. 2 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt I: Who are reckoned unable to fast, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt II: On necessity excusing from fasting, nn. 1–17 (17 passages)
Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt III: On cases of piety excusing from fasting, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Fasting and Abstinence — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Slater, Cases I · Spirago · 1917 Code of Canon Law · Decretum of Gratian · Decretals of Gregory IX — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)