Churches, oratories and altars

Consecrated altars; private oratories; Mass in the open or in a house.

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home mass · mass in a private chapel · mass outside a church · oratory (ed.)

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In the manuals

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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J.

Vol. II, Bk. V, Pt. II, Chapter V. Where Mass may be Said, n. 1 — By ecclesiastical law Mass may regularly be said only in churches and oratories dedicated solely to the service of God, and therein on duly consecrated altars. If, however, there be no church in the place, or if it be in… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 4 passages

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. IV, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Chapter II. On the Place of Offering, nn. 244, 245, 246 & 247 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J.

Vol. III, Bk. III, Tr. II, Appendices, To n. 341. - Appendix VII. Historical Matters Concerning Churches and Oratories, n. ¶1 — In the first centuries, before 313, at least at Rome, the interior part of certain houses was deputed for carrying out sacred rites, so that churches existed, in this sense, as domestic churches. Those places, since ther… Read in context →

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Clement Marc, C.SS.R. — 5 passages

Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. III, Ch. III, ARTICLE I: On the Requisites for Hearing Mass, nn. ¶6, ¶678, ¶7, ¶679 & ¶680 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 13 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Most Holy…, Section B: On the Eucharis…, Second Part: On the Precep…, Appendix: On the Rites, Ceremonies, and Other Precepts to Be Observed in the Celebration and Dispensation of the Eucharist, n. 388 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)

The 1917 Code of Canon Law

Promulgated by Pope Benedict XV — 27 passages

Sect. I, Title IX: Of Churches, cann. 1161–1187 (27 passages)

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Gratian — 74 passages

Pt. III, Distinction I, cc. ¶ & 1–73 (74 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)

Pope Gregory IX — 10 passages

Bk. III, Title XL: On the Consecration of a Church or Altar, cc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII

Bk. III, Title XXI: On the Consecration of a Church or Altar, c. 1 — Chapter I. When a church is polluted, a cemetery contiguous to it is polluted, but not a remote one. Pollution of a cemetery does not pollute the church, although it is contiguous. When one cemetery is polluted, another contiguous … Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Where Mass may be Said — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases II — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)