A Topic of Moral Theology
Obligation of Conscience and Gravity of Fault
Whether and how gravely the laws of the Index bind in conscience, and what excuses.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
purchase of a prohibited book (ed.)
In the index as Newspapers · Loan of prohibited books · Prescriptions of natural law · Confessor and bad newspapers · Purchase of a prohibited book · Reading of a book · Retention of a book · Book, prohibited books · Bookbinder · Booksellers · Defense of a prohibited book · Edition · Grave matter, light · Grave or light guilt · Innkeepers · Laws on the censure and prohibition of books: · Loan of a prohibited book · Obligation of conscience · Precepts and prohibitions of the Constitution Officiorum · Reading (Lectio) · Sacred Scripture (Scriptura Sacra) · Sale of a prohibited book · Servant · Sin
In the manuals
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On the Prohibition and Censorship of Books (De prohibitione et censura librorum)
Chapter VIII: Obligation of Conscience. Gravity of Fault, nn. 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. II, Treatise on Censures, Appendix III: On Censures …, § I. On Excommunications Latae Sententiae Reserved to the Roman Pontiff in a Special Manner, n. ¶1707 — 1707. Questions. - Query 1° Whether the law of the Index, prohibiting the reading of certain books, obliges by natural law, or only by positive law? Resp. It presses by both laws, at least of itself; because it prohibits… Read in context →
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.)