A Topic of Moral Theology

Concubinage

Habitual illicit union as an occasion of sin, and what the confessor must require of it.

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cohabitation · live together · living in sin · living together unmarried · living with a girlfriend or boyfriend · moved in together · shacking up (ed.)

In the index as Concubinage · Clerics and vowed persons, marriage of · Betrothal · Prostitution · Second marriages · Bestiality · Brothel · Callistus · Castrated man · Chastity · Cohabitation · Council of Troyes · Divorce · Eucharist, as Sacrament (Eucharistia, ut Sacramentum) · Eunuch · Fornication · Mainz, Assembly of · Marriage with unbelievers and heretics · Nicholas I · One who has undergone vasectomy

In the manuals

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. I, Article I. On Positive Duties, n. 1161 — IV. Chastity; concerning which several things must be noted. 1. The obligation of celibacy and perfect chastity. Clerics constituted in major orders are kept from marriage and are held by the obligation of preserving cha… Read in context →

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. IV, Art. II, § I. On Concubinage, nn. ¶1, 466 & 467 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. III, Bk. I, Pt. I, Sect. II, Ch. II, § 1. On Fornication, n. 34 — III. To fornication are referred concubinage and prostitution; likewise, in a certain way, the intercourse of a castrated man and of one who has undergone vasectomy, and onanistic intercourse. 1. Concubinage is carnal an… Read in context →

Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)

Ch. II, Article II: On Concubinage and Prostitution, nn. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 & 56 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, On the Sixth and Ninth Pre…, II. On Sins of Lust According to Nature, n. 789 — Note: "He who only begins intercourse, but does not complete it, nor emits seed, must explain this very thing, because although then there is fornication begun and in affection, nevertheless it is not fornication in real… Read in context →

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Vol. II, TREATISE ON THE SACRAMENT …, PART THIRD: ON THE MINISTE…, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the Manner of Acting with Various Kinds of Penitents, nn. ¶8, ¶1438 & ¶1439 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Ch. II, § B. Concerning Certain Si…, Q. II, Which Is Opposed to Spiritual Goods, nn. ¶4788–¶4814 (27 passages)

Treatise on Christian Marriage

Bk. IX, Chapter 12, n. ¶829 — Since marriages with persons of the lowest rank were prohibited to Roman matrons of a certain more eminent dignity, so that those unions were not reckoned by the law except as concubinage, Callistus, that he might provid… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 400, nn. ¶1019 & ¶1020 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Letter of Leo, to…, Bishop of Narbonne, A.D. 458 or 459, nn. ¶1078, ¶1079 & ¶1080 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 589, n. ¶1187 — Canon XIV. At the suggestion of the council, our most glorious Lord (King Reccared) ordered this to be inserted in the canons, that it is not lawful for Jews to have Christian wives or concubines.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 638, n. ¶1237 — For he responded to the inquiry "concerning those who after penance take wives or join concubines to themselves." Rather they could have appealed to Canon XXI of the second Council of Arles, A.D. 451, above.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Vermer…, A.D. 753, nn. ¶1338 & ¶1339 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Synod of Eu…, A.D. 826, n. ¶1455 — Canon XXXVII. It is lawful for no one to have two wives at one time, or a wife and a concubine ... For just as Christ observes the Church chaste, so the husband ought to guard chaste marriage.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Constitutions of …, Bishop of Constantinople, who Died A.D. 828, n. ¶1459 — From the fourth Sylloge of Canons. Canon XXXIV. If anyone, having obtained a concubine, does not wish either to dismiss her or to have her blessed and to have her rightly with the sacrament, it is not fitting that those … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Assembly of Mainz, Of Several Bishops, Rabanus Presiding, Under Louis, King of Germany, A.D. 851, nn. ¶1495, ¶1497 & ¶1498 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of Nichol…, Archbishop of Vienne, A.D. 862, nn. ¶1502 & ¶1504 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, Archbishop of Auch, and Hi…, A.D. 879, n. ¶1546 — He adds after a few words. This also, together with them (namely, with the Fathers), we likewise command: that no one leave his own wife and, while she is living, presume to associate another to himself; nor is it lawful… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Troyes, A.D. 1007, nn. ¶1567 & ¶1568 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Girona…, A.D. 1068, n. ¶1604 — Canon VII. From presbyter down to subdeacon, if they have led a wife or retained a concubine, let them go out from the clergy and lose every ecclesiastical benefice, and remain in the Church with the laity. But if they h… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the First Lateran Cou…, Ecumenical, A.D. 1123, nn. ¶1637 & ¶1638 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. VI, Disputation II: On the Vic…, Q. III, Doubt III: On fornication, Subdoubt I: On concubinage, nn. 1–29 (29 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Occasions of Sin — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Concina, Compendium · The Casuist · Spirago · Scott, You and Yours — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)