A Topic of Moral Theology
The Force and Interpretation of These Laws
Whether the laws of the Index bind everywhere and whom, what became of the earlier law, and the rules by which their words are to be read.
The works themselves ask 19 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Book · Clauses: · General Decrees concerning the censure and prohibition of books · Newspapers · Officiorum ac Munerum · Periodic pamphlets · Various words: · Fascicles of periodic pamphlets · Interpretation of the Constitution Officiorum · Prescriptions of natural law · Abrogation of the prior law · Amorous novels · Apostolicae Sedis · Benedict XIV · Calendar · Clement VIII · Congregation of the Index · Edition · Exemption from the laws of the Index · Later volume of a condemned book · Leo XIII · Loan of prohibited books · Observations · Odious law
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
On the Prohibition and Censorship of Books (De prohibitione et censura librorum)
Chapter IV: Abrogation of the Earlier Law, nn. 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Chapter V: The Universal Force of These Laws, nn. 23 & 24 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. VI, I. What General Principles Are to Be Used, nn. 25, 26 & 27 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. VI, II. Applications or Particular Cases, nn. 28, 29, 30, 31 & 32 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. VI, A. Book, Booklet, Writing, nn. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 & 41 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. VI, 3. On the Signification of Various Words and Clauses, nn. 42, 43, 44, 45 & 46 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Fourth Part: On the Vices …, Question Two: On Sins Indi…, Article III: On the Reading and Dissemination of Prohibited Writings, n. 775 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Censorship and Prohibition of Books — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · 1917 Code of Canon Law — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)