Consanguinity

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Bk. IX, Ch. X, Article IV. Consanguinity, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 6 passages

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Article IX. Consanguinity, n. ¶1 — We shall speak first about consanguinity according to itself, then about consanguinity insofar as it is an impediment of marriage.Read in context →

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Art. IX, § I. On Consanguinity according to Itself, nn. 791 & 792 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Art. IX, § I, Scholion. Names of Blood-Relatives, n. 793 — There are: I. In the direct ascending line. 1. Father (vader, padre, pere, father, Vater) and Mother (moeder, madre, mere, mother, Mutter). 2. Grandfather (grootvader, nonno or avolo, aieul or grand-pere, grandfather, Gr… Read in context →

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Art. IX, § II. On Consanguinity Insofar as It Is an Impediment of Marriage, nn. 794 & 795 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 5 passages

Vol. IV, On Marriage, III. On the Impediments of Marriage, nn. 997, 998, 999, 1000 & 1001 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 18 passages

147. Consanguinity, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (18 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.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 57 passages

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point III. On the Impediment of Relationship, nn. ¶1, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808 & 809 (57 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 9 passages

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. IX, Art. III, § 9. Natural Relationship or Consanguinity, nn. ¶112, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837 & 838 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Benedict H. Merkelbach, O.P. — 45 passages

Ch. V, Article IX: Consanguinity, nn. 148, ¶6242–¶6256, 149, ¶6258–¶6271, 150, ¶6273, ¶6274, ¶6275, 151, ¶6277, ¶6278, ¶6279, ¶6280, 152, ¶6282, 153, ¶6284 & ¶6285 (45 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 38 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Third Part: On the Impedim…, Question Three: On Dirimen…, Art. VII, Carnal, Spiritual, and Legal, nn. ¶1, 902, 903, 904, 905 & 906 (38 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treatise on Christian Marriage

Dominic Palmieri, S.J. — 78 passages

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Canons of the Apostles, in the First Three Centuries of the Church, n. ¶824 — Canon XIX. He who has married two sisters successively, or the daughter of a brother (another reading: a cousin; Ebediesu adds, or the daughter of a sister), cannot be a cleric.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Agde, …, A.D. 506, nn. ¶1112 & ¶1113 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 527 or 531, nn. ¶1138 & ¶1139 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Auvergne, A.D. 535, n. ¶1147 — Canon XII. If anyone has believed that the widow of his brother, the sister of his wife, his stepdaughter, his female cousin or cousin's daughter, or the widow of his paternal or maternal uncle, is to be violated by the … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Orleans, A.D. 538, n. ¶1155 — Canon X. Concerning incestuous unions, let those things which have been established be kept in such a way that for those who either now come to baptism or to whom the statutes of the Fathers have not previously come to n… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tours, A.D. 567, n. ¶1177 — Canon XXI. Concerning incestuous unions, however, we judge that the old statutes of the canons are not to be broken ... Therefore it has also pleased us to touch on a few things from the volumes of the books and to inser… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Diocesan Synod of…, A.D. 590, nn. ¶1195 & ¶1196 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Bk. XI, Epistle LXIV), A.D. 601, nn. ¶1200 & ¶1201 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Bk. XIV, Epistle 17), A.D. 604, nn. ¶1202, ¶1203, ¶1204, ¶1205, ¶1206, ¶1208, ¶1209 & ¶1210 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Paris, A.D. 615, n. ¶1218 — Canon XIV. We have judged that incestuous unions are specially to be cut away from the whole Christian people, so that if anyone has believed that the widow of his brother, the sister of his wife, his stepdaughter, a fem… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 721, nn. ¶1259 & ¶1261 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, A.D. 726, n. ¶1265 — Response I. In the first place it was read in what degree of the stock of relatives marriage is coupled. We say that indeed it was fitting that, so long as they recognize themselves as relatives by affinity, they should … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of Gregor…, A.D. 731, n. ¶1270 — This is the first ecclesiastical canon in which it is expressly said that the impediment of consanguinity extends down to the seventh degree. The Fathers of the second Council of Douzy, A.D. 874, attribute this decree, a… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, Bishop of Pavia, n. ¶1289 — Response I. You took care to ask us whether it is lawful for a son whose father received another man's daughter from sacred baptism, that is, as spiritual father (perhaps "the spiritual father"), to take in marriage the … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, Another Text of the Same Zacharias, nn. ¶1297, ¶1300 & ¶1301 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council und…, A.D. 743, nn. ¶1304, ¶1308, ¶1310 & ¶1315 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Soisso…, A.D. 744, n. ¶1317 — Canon IX. We establish that no lay man shall have a woman consecrated to God as wife, nor his own relative, nor, while the husband is living, shall another accept his wife; because a husband ought not to dismiss his wife… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Vermer…, A.D. 753, n. ¶1353 — Canon XVIII. He who remains with the female cousin of his wife shall lack his own wife and have no other. That woman whom he had may do what she wishes. The Church does not receive this.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Synodal Chapters, Given After the Preceding Synod in the City of Metz Under King Pepin, n. ¶1382 — Capitulum I. If a man has committed incest in these causes: with one consecrated to God, or with his co-mother, or with his spiritual stepmother from the font and the confirmation of the Bishop (cf. Zacharias, Response X… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Calchu…, A.D. 787, n. ¶1419 — Canon XV. Unjust and incestuous marriages are forbidden to all, both with handmaids of God or other illicit persons, and with relatives and blood-relatives or alien wives; and he who does such things is altogether pierce… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Arles, A.D. 813, nn. ¶1430 & ¶1431 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Second Council of…, A.D. 813, n. ¶1442 — Namely, the blood-relatives of one spouse are affines of the other.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Synod of Eu…, A.D. 826, n. ¶1456 — Canon XXXVIII. Let no one dare to couple to himself in marriage a female cousin, a niece, a stepmother, a brother's wife, or even someone from his own cognation, or her whom a cognate had. But if anyone has come together… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Meaux …, A.D. 845-46, n. ¶1473 — You have a diriment impediment of crime. A marriage of this sort, even when killing had not intervened, Justinian had already absolutely proscribed and had commanded to be null, Novel 134, chapters 10 and 12. The Fathers… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Mainz,…, A.D. 847, n. ¶1484 — Canon XXIX. If anyone has led a widowed wife and afterward has fornicated with his stepdaughter, or has married two sisters, or if any woman has married two brothers or [has been] with a father and son; likewise, if anyo… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, A.D. 863, nn. ¶1506, ¶1507 & ¶1508 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, Archbishop of Besancon, A.D. 865, n. ¶1522 — Response II. But those who accept wives from their own consanguinity and from their own cognation, or marry, who would not reprehend or accuse them? Since even our holy predecessors, prelates of the Apostolic See, namely… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Responses of the …, A.D. 866, nn. ¶1527, ¶1532 & ¶1533 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Worms, A.D. 868, n. ¶1537 — Canon XXXII. In the coupling of the faithful we do not define the number of generation, but we establish this: that it is lawful for no Christian to accept a wife from his own consanguinity or cognation, so long as the g… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, Archbishop of Auch, and Hi…, A.D. 879, n. ¶1544 — Having made mention of an execrable evil, namely, that their parishioners accept a near relative as wife, he says:Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tribur, A.D. 895, n. ¶1558 — Canon XLVII. He who has a spiritual co-father, whose son he received from the washing of the sacred font, and his wife is not a co-mother, let it be lawful for him, after his co-father has died, to lead his widow as wife… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 998, n. ¶1566 — Canon I. That King Robert (of the Franks) leave his blood-relative Bertha, whom he led as wife contrary to the laws, and do penance of seven years, according to the prefixed ecclesiastical degrees, has been judged. But i… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of Pascha…, Bishop of Reggio, A.D. 1100-15, n. ¶1573 — Chapter III. Further, as for the spouses of two female cousins, although at diverse times, that the one marry one man after the death of the other: public honesty itself, apart from canonical authority, contradicts it. A… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Enham,…, A.D. 1009, nn. ¶1579, ¶1583 & ¶1586 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Compos…, A.D. 1056, n. ¶1588 — Canon VI. That these blood-relatives who are married be separated and fulfill penance, or be expelled from the Church and the Christian fellowship. Thus (that is, in the same manner) we dispose concerning married presbyt… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 1059, n. ¶1589 — Canon XI. That no one lead a wife from his own consanguinity up to the seventh generation, or as far as kinship could be known.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tours,…, A.D. 1060, n. ¶1591 — Canon IX. Whoever has accepted in marriage his own blood-relative, or her whom his blood-relative had previously known, or one whose blood-relative he has carnally accepted in marriage, or hereafter has accepted, or, aft… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, A.D. 1061-73, n. ¶1595 — Namely, sons or daughters from a second marriage cannot be coupled to the blood-relatives of the former spouse; for between them the second kind of affinity intervenes. Cf. Decree L of the fourth Lateran Council, below.Read in context →

Part IX, c. 82), n. ¶1596 — By the report of many we have learned that you wish to cast away your own wife and to adhere to another, putting forward the occasion of consanguinity. Whence, by apostolic authority, by forbidding we command you that yo… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 1065, nn. ¶1598 & ¶1599 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Rouen, A.D. 1072, n. ¶1606 — Canon XIV. Let nuptials not be made in secret nor after lunch; but let the bridegroom and bride, fasting, be blessed by a fasting priest in the monastery; and before they are coupled, let the progeny of both be diligentl… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Girona…, A.D. 1078, n. ¶1615 — Canon VIII. Those joined in consanguinity, unless they are separated by worthy satisfaction, shall remain separated from the Church and the Body of Christ.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Lilleb…, King of the English, with …, A.D. 1080, n. ¶1618 — Canon II. Concerning those who hold wives from their own kinship and the wives of their relatives, let the bishops execute canonical justice. For the King sustains or protects nothing therefrom; but rather, by helping th… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Troia, Urban II Presiding, A.D. 1093, nn. ¶1622 & ¶1623 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of London…, A.D. 1102, n. ¶1634 — The same Anselm, in an epistle (Book 3, Epistle 158), whether the nuptials of blood-relatives are forbidden and why, gave this reason for this prohibition. Namely, having posited that our law is charity, which, the more … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of London, The Legate of the Apostoli…, A.D. 1125, n. ¶1639 — Canon XVI. We prohibit marriages from being contracted among blood-relatives or those joined by affinity up to the seventh generation; but if any such persons shall have been joined, let them be separated.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Title On Betrothals and Marriage, n. ¶1660 — Chapter IV. (The same, ibid.). No blood-relative of another can ever unite in marriage the other's betrothed, if she is near marriageable age.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Synodal Constitut…, Bishop of Paris, A.D. 1198, n. ¶1672 — Decree II. Let them firmly prohibit, by excommunication, sorceries from being done among the laity; let sorcerers also and those concealing consanguinity and the other impediments of marriage - vow, order, consanguinity,… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council in Dalmatia, Legates of the Apostolic S…, A.D. 1199, n. ¶1673 — Canon VI. The most holy Roman Church, which is the mother and teacher of all churches, has decreed that no Christian presume to contract marriage up to the seventh degree of consanguinity ... Therefore by the present dec… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of London…, A.D. 1200, n. ¶1675 — Canon XI. Let a man not contract with any blood-relative formerly of his wife; similarly neither let a wife contract with any blood-relative formerly of her husband. And let one received in baptism not contract with the … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Fourth Lateran Co…, A.D. 1215, nn. ¶1682 & ¶1684 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Diss. II, Chapter I — On diriment impediments, n. VII — VII. QUESTION IV. What is the impediment of kinship? ANSWER. Kinship is threefold: natural, spiritual, and legal. Natural is called consanguinity, as it were a unity of blood: because blood-relations descend from the sam… Read in context →

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume II

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 8 passages

Slater, Cases II, Matrimony, Case 16. Consanguinity, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology

Various; ed. S. Woywod, O.F.M., and J. A. McHugh, O.P. — 14 passages

Vol. II, Case XII: A Case of the Impediment of Consanguinity, nn. ¶1–¶14 (14 passages)

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Gratian — 69 passages

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, c. ¶ — GRATIAN. A certain man, after his wife had died, joined another woman to himself in marriage, who was related to the deceased wife in the fourth degree of consanguinity but to the man in the sixth line. After three years… Read in context →

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question I, cc. ¶ & 1 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Questions II and III, cc. ¶ & 1–22 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question IV, cc. ¶ & 1 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question V, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question VI, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question VII, cc. ¶ & 1 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question VIII, cc. ¶, 1, 2 & 3 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question IX, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXV, Question X, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)

Pope Gregory IX — 9 passages

Bk. IV, Title XIV: On Consanguinity and Affinity, cc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Hieronymus Noldin, S.J. — 8 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Five. On the Impe…, Article Three. On Diriment…, Section 9. Consanguinity., nn. 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595 & 596 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 10 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II. On Impediments in Particular, nn. 888, 889, 890, 891, 891, Q. 2 & 891 (10 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

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 4 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On Matrimony, n. 997 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)