A Topic of Moral Theology
What excommunication is
The gravest penalty; vitandi and tolerati.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
what excommunication means (ed.)
In the index as Excommunication · Persons to be avoided · Tolerated persons · An excommunicated person · Anathema maranatha · Burial · Censures · Excommunicates to be avoided · Excommunicates tolerated or not · Violation
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. II, Chapter I. Excommunication, n. 1 — OF all the penalties which the Church can inflict, excommunication is the most severe, and it virtually contains the others. It deprives the delinquent of all the advantages which he possessed as a member of the Church, … Read in context →
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. IV, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. II, Chapter I. On Excommunication, nn. 870, 871, 872 & 873 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Supplement: Dispositions o…, Pt. II, SECTION THIRD, TRACTATE II: On Ecclesiast…, Chapter II: On the Various Species of Censure, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. VI, Ch. III, Art. I, § 1. On The Notion And Division Of Excommunication, nn. 498 & 499 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. IV, Chapter IV — On censures severally, namely on the greater and lesser excommunication, nn. I, IV & V (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Excommunication — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · 1917 Code of Canon Law · Decretum of Gratian · Decretals of Gregory IX — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)