A Topic of Moral Theology
The Temporal Goods of the Church
Church property: whose it is, who administers it, how it may be alienated, and what its surplus is owed to.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Penalty Usurping the goods of the Roman Church (Can. 2345) — in Excommunications Specially Reserved to the Holy See
Also asked about as…
alienation of church goods · church funds · church property · ecclesiastical goods (ed.)
In the index as Ecclesiastical goods · Dominion · Goods · Church · Beneficed persons ought to spend the surplus of revenues on pious uses · Clerics · Communities · Contracts · Fruits · Gifts · Justice · Moral person · Offerings of the faithful · Place · Public and private societies · State · Superfluous things from ecclesiastical goods ought to be spent on pious uses · The State cannot remove the natural right of association
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
§ 1. From the Constitution *Apostolicae sedis*, nn. 64 & 65 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
§ 2. From the Council of Trent, n. 91 — 91. a. This censure protects ecclesiastical goods taken in the broadest sense, namely any temporal goods and rights whatever pertaining to churches, religious places, or pious places; to these also in part article 11 and… Read in context →
§ 1. From the Constitution *Apostolicae sedis*, nn. 100 & 101 (2 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)
66. On Ecclesiastical Goods, nn. 1 & 2 (10 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.
Vol. I, Treatise on Justice and Ri…, Third Part. On Restitution, Sect. II, Ch. III, Art. III, § I. On Ecclesiastical Goods, nn. 750 & 751 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part I — Chapter I: On the Existence of Right, nn. 172 & 195 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article VI: On the Dominion of Moral Persons, nn. 198, 199 & 200 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, The Seventh Commandment—Ju…, Case 1. An Ingenious Verger, n. ¶1 — Titius, the verger of a certain church, lets seats to the faithful for the parish priest. Caia had rented one of the principal seats, but she passed the summer season in distant regions. According to custom, other member… Read in context →
Slater, Cases I, Contracts, Case 3. A Contract with a Modus, n. ¶1 — Certain Catholics in a certain town wished a certain religious Order to have a church in their town; indeed, after a large sum of money had been collected, they bought land on which a house and church might be built and … Read in context →
The 1917 Code of Canon Law
1917 Code of Canon Law, Book Three: Of Things, Part Six: Of the Temporal Goods of the Church, cann. 1495, 1496, 1497 & 1498 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Title XXVII: Of Acquiring Ecclesiastical Goods, cann. 1499–1517 (19 passages)
Title XXVIII: Of Administering Ecclesiastical Goods, cann. 1518, 1519, 1520, 1521, 1522, 1523, 1524, 1525, 1526, 1527 & 1528 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Title XXIX: Of Contracts, cann. 1529–1543 (15 passages)
Title XXX: Of Pious Foundations, cann. 1544, 1545, 1546, 1547, 1548, 1549, 1550 & 1551 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)
Pt. II, Causa X, c. ¶ — GRATIAN. A certain layman seeks to separate from diocesan law a basilica built by him; the bishop contends that the church with its entire endowment pertains to his administration; at length the bishop prevails, and, acc… Read in context →
Pt. II, Causa X, Question I, cc. ¶ & 1–15 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pt. II, Causa X, Question II, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pt. II, Causa X, Question III, cc. ¶, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pt. II, Causa XII, Question II, cc. ¶ & 1–75 (76 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)
Bk. III, Title XIII: On Whether the Property of a Church May Be Alienated, cc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII
Bk. III, Title IX: On the Property of a Church Not to Be Alienated, cc. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Ownership and Property — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Concina, Compendium · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Casuist · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)