A Topic of Moral Theology
Just Cause for Spacing Births
What excuses the deliberate confinement of marriage to the infertile times: the grave and just causes, their kinds and duration — Griese's classic list of motives and the conditions of the recent study.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
family size · grave reasons · serious motives (ed.)
In the index as Just cause for spacing births · Griese, Dr. N. Orville · Natural family planning (use of the sterile period) · Periodic continence, motives for
In the manuals
New Questions, Old Answers: Catholic Morals and Natural Family Planning
Clark, New Questions, Old Answers, Chapter Four: What is a Ju…, Just Cause Defined, nn. 1–21 (21 passages)
Clark, New Questions, Old Answers, Chapter Four: What is a Ju…, Final Synthesis, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Clark, New Questions, Old Answers, Appendix: Griese’s List of Motives for Using Periodic Continence, nn. 1–29 (29 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Use of the Infertile Periods — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Vermeersch, What Is Marriage? · Vermeersch, On Chastity · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)