A Topic of Moral Theology

Doubtful impediments

Doubt before marriage; doubt arising after; the duties in the meantime.

In the index as Impediments · Church · Roman Pontiff · Age · Apostates · Bishop · Clandestine matrimony · Dispensation · Error · Fear · Force · Heretic · Ignorance · Impediment · Impotence · Inability · Mixed marriage · Neoconverts · Nullity · Occult sinner · Pastor · Presumption of life of a missing husband · Prohibition of the Church · State or civil power

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. IX, Chapter XI. Doubtful Impediments, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Third Part: On the Impedim…, Question One: On Impediments in General, nn. ¶1, 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 861, 862 & 863 (70 passages — hover a number to read it)

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

Vol. V, Case XCI: Presumption of Life of a Missing Husband, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Matrimony — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, What Is Marriage? · Vermeersch, On Chastity · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis and 10 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)