A Topic of Moral Theology
Clerical dress and tonsure
The obligation, its gravity, and local custom.
The works themselves ask 37 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Divine Office · Clerics (Clerici) · Profession of Faith · Celibacy · Recitation · Tonsure · Error · Religious · Breviary · Distraction · Garments · Lay Religious · Litanies · Liturgical Language · Missionaries · Nocturns · Nuns · Omission · Priest · Regulars · Religious Woman · Rubrics · Vespers · Absence
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. II, Bk. I, Pt. II, Chapter III. Clerical Dress, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On Particular States, n. 101, 102 — On the Garments of Missionaries. “Since in certain missions the custom of wearing a cassock, especially when priests appear in public, has not hitherto been diligently observed by all—and indeed, in some places graver abuses have also begun to be introd… Read in context →
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise on Particular Sta…, Part Second. On the State …, Ch. I, Art. I, § III. On Wearing the Habit and Tonsure, nn. 45, 46, 47 & 48 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON PARTICULAR STA…, PART SECOND: ON THE STATE …, Ch. I, BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, Art. I, § III. On the Wearing of Habit and Tonsure, n. ¶1088 — 1088. - Clerics, at least those initiated in major Orders, are obliged to wear the tonsure and clerical garment. This is clear from the whole of Canon Law, especially from the Council of Trent, Sess. 14. c. 6 de Ref., wh… Read in context →
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. II, Pt. IV, Tr. II, Ch. I, Art. I, § 4. On Wearing The Habit And Tonsure, nn. ¶2222 & ¶2223 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. X, Pt. II, Ch. I, Article I. On the Positive Obligations of Clerics, nn. 567, 568, 569, 569, Q. 2, 569, Q. 3, 569, Q. 4, 569, Q. 5, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 574, Q. 2, 574, Q. 3, 574, Q. 4, 574, Q. 5, 574, Q. 6, 574, Q. 7, 574, Q. 8, 575, 576, 576, Q. 2, 576, Q. 3, 577, 578, 578, Q. 2, 578, Q. 3, 578, Q. 4, 578, Q. 5, 578, Q. 6, 579, 580, 580, Q. 2, 580, Q. 3, 580, Q. 4, 580, Q. 5, 580, Q. 6, 581, 582, 582, Q. 2, 582, 583, 584, 584, Q. 2, 584, Q. 3 & 584, Q. 4 (46 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. I, Chapter VII — On the things which clerics ought to perform, and on those from which they ought to abstain, n. II (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Clerical Dress — Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Tanquerey · Decretum of Gratian — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)