A Topic of Moral Theology

Duties of Clerical Superiors

Duties of Clerical Superiors, as treated in McHugh–Callan (Art. 1. The Duties of Members of the Church).

In the index as Clerics · Superior

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. III, Art. 1. The Duties of Memb…, Duties of Clerical Superiors, n. 2606 — Special Duties of Clerical Superiors from Divine Law. Special Duties of Clerical Superiors from Divine Law.—(a) As individuals, they should strive to be personally more perfect than their subjects, for they are supposed to give an example in faith, religion, zeal, labor, 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)

Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910), Third Commentary: On the F…, XIII. On the Obligations of Inferiors and Ecclesiastical Superiors, nn. 179, 180 & 181 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. V, Chapter VIII — How grave is the obligation of Prelates of bringing in community. What Regulars ought to do who dwell in cloisters where, the common life being driven out, private purses creep in. And whether young men can lawfully receive the religious habit in these places, nn. I–XXXIX (39 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Special Duties of Clerics — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist · 1917 Code of Canon Law and 2 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)