A Topic of Moral Theology
Impure Thoughts
Morose delectation and consent to impure representations, and how they are to be confessed.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Base thought · Confession of desire · Joy · Lust · Complacency in an impure thing · Delectation · Desire · Idea concerning a base thing · Impurity · Affection toward a dishonorable thing · Confessor · Consent · Delight · Flight · Impure images · Interior temptations · Luxury · Masturbation · Pleasure · Pollution · Questions to be asked in confession · Reading · Sublimation · The Blessed Virgin Mary to be venerated for the sake of chastity
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 8. The Virtue of Temp…, Impure Thoughts, nn. 2505 & 2506 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)
Chapter V: On the Internal Sins of Lust, nn. ¶1, 224, 225 & 226 (17 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Supplement: On the Virtue of Chastity, nn. 18, 19, 20 & 21 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
On Chastity and on the Contrary Vices: A Doctrinal and Moral Treatise
Ch. II, Article III. On Interior Acts, nn. 365 & ¶1900 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. II, Art. III, I. On Interior Acts Insofar as They Excite the Flesh, nn. 366, ¶1901, ¶1902, ¶1903, ¶1904, 367 & ¶1905–¶1919 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. II, Art. III, II. On More Intellectual Acts, nn. 368, ¶1920, ¶1921, ¶1922, 369, ¶1923, ¶1924, ¶1925, ¶1926, ¶1927, ¶1928, ¶1929, ¶1930, ¶1931, 370, ¶1932, ¶1933, ¶1934, ¶1935, ¶1936, 371, ¶1937, ¶1938, ¶1939, ¶1940 & ¶1941 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pastoral Questions
Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions, I. Questions Concerning Ch…, On Chastity and Lust, Question Six: Concerning Internal Lust, nn. ¶404 & ¶424–¶440 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XIII, Ch. III, Art. V, Namely, Lust, § 2. On the Internal Sins of Lust, nn. ¶77, 685, 686, 687 & 688 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fourth Part: On the Virtue…, Question Four: On Internal Luxury, nn. ¶1, 1020, 1021, 1022 & 1023 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Sins of Thought — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases I · The Roman Catechism — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)