A Topic of Moral Theology
What a censure is and its kinds
A spiritual, remedial penalty for contumacy; excommunication, suspension, interdict; a jure and ab homine; latae and ferendae sententiae.
The works themselves ask 11 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Censure · Contumacy · Reserved Censures · Ignorance · Sentence · Censure as penalty · Ecclesiastical censure · Gross Ignorance · Penalty · Reserved Case · Doubt · Fault · Reservation · Those Ignorant · Amendment · Censures · Consummation · Ecclesiastical penalty · Fear · Ferendae sententiae · Grave · Holy See · Impuberes · Injustice
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On Ecclesiastical Penalties, Second Book. On Ecclesiast…, Question One. On Censures …, Article One. On the Nature of Censure., nn. 8, 9 & 10 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. I, Chapter I. The Nature of an Ecclesiastical Censure, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. IV, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. I, Ch. I, Multiplication, and Division of Censure, n. 862 — I. Notion. Censure is a penalty by which a baptized man, delinquent and contumacious, is deprived of certain spiritual goods or goods annexed to spiritual things, until, withdrawing from contumacy, he is absolved (canon … Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. IV, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. I, Chapter II. On Reservation of Censure, n. 863 — I. Notion of reservation. Reservation of censure is its evocation to the judgment of the Superior; therefore it limits the inferior's power of absolving (canon 893, §§ 1 and 2). II. Power of reserving. Those same persons… Read in context →
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. IV, On Censures, I. On the Nature of Censure, nn. 1084 & 1085 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise On Censures, Ch. I, Art. I, Division, and Conditions of Censures, nn. 932 & 936 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Supplement: Dispositions o…, Pt. II, SECTION THIRD, TRACTATE II: On Ecclesiast…, Chapter II: On the Various Species of Censure, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. VI, Ch. II, Article I. On The Notion And Division Of Censure, nn. 475 & 476 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. II, Tr. XIX, Ch. II, Art. I, Division, and Conditions of Censures, nn. 944, 945, 946, 946, Q. 2, 946, Q. 3, 946, Q. 4, 946, Q. 5, 946, Q. 6, 946, Q. 7 & 946, Q. 8 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. IV, Chapter I — The notion and partition of a censure, and who can pass censures, n. II — II. A censure is distributed into three species: excommunication, suspension, and interdict. Irregularity from a delict, deposition, and degradation are not medicinal penalties. Cessation from divine offices is not a cen… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading The Nature of an Ecclesiastical Censure — Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)