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A Topic of Moral Theology

False and superfluous worship

Worship whose meaning is false, or performed by one who may not; worship against the Church's ordinances

The works themselves ask 5 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as Jesus Christ · Commandments (laws) of God · Cult · Devil · Heart of Jesus · Superstition · Superstition and its practices · Virgin · Worship · Antichrist · Astrology · Divination · Dreams · Face · Fortune-telling · Joseph · Jugglers · Lotteries · Magic · Meteorology · Scapulars · Soothsaying · Sorcery · Spiritualism

In the manuals

Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. I, Ch. IV, Section I. Wrong Ways of Worshipping God, nn. 1 & 2 (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)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 12 passages

40. On New Cults, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Bk. II, Tr. II, Ch. I, Article I: On Vicious Worship of the True God, nn. ¶1, 231, 232, 233 & 234 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 10 passages

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fifth Part: On the Virtues…, Sect. C, Ch. I, Question One: On Undue Worship of the True God, nn. ¶1, 771, 772 & 773 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Christian Religion

Francis Spirago; edited by Richard F. Clarke, S.J. — 11 passages

Pt. II, Vice and Virtue, Perfection, A. THE COMMANDMENTS, X. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF…, THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF GOD, 3. FOOLISH OR PERVERTED WORSHIP, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Wrong Ways of Worshipping God — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Concina, Theologia Christiana III — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)