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Local sacrilege

Violation of the immunity of sacred places; crimes that pollute a church; profane uses.

The works themselves ask 11 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

desecrating a church (ed.)

In the index as Sacrilege · Violation · Ecclesiastical immunity · Sacred place · Theft · Cemetery · Altars · Desecration of fixed and movable altars · Ecclesiastical asylum · Homicide · Immunity · The Church · Thing · Blessed cemetery · Cinematographs · Ecclesiastical burial · Exsecration of a church · Forensic works · Gift · Human semen · Immodest looks · Libidinous conversations · Luxury · Moral person

Further reading The Inviolability of Church Sanctuary — on Numbers 35 ↗ — Cornelius a Lapide, The Great Commentary, read off-site at lapide.org (public-domain translation) (ed.)

In the manuals

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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J.

Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. I, Chapter VI. Sacrilege, n. 4 — Local sacrilege is also committed in three ways: (a) By violating the immunity of sacred places as far as this is still in force. (b) By committing certain crimes in a church or public oratory, which has been consecrated… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 2 passages

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. I, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § II, Point II. On Local Sacrilege, nn. 615 & 616 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 8 passages

Vol. I, On the First Precept of th…, VII. On Sacrilege, nn. 497, 502, 503 & 505 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, On the Sixth and Ninth Pre…, II. On Sins of Lust According to Nature, nn. 804, 805, 806 & 807 (4 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. — 3 passages

164. On the Immunity of Ecclesiastical Asylum, n. 1 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Antony Koch; adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss — 2 passages

Vol. IV, Pt. II, Chapter III: Sacrilege, nn. ¶6 & ¶7 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 6 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. II, Q. I, Ch. III, Art. IX, § 3. On Local Sacrilege, nn. 545, 546, 547, 548, 549 & 550 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 38 passages

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fifth Part: On the Virtues…, Sect. C, Ch. II, Question Three: On Sacrilege, nn. ¶1, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806 & 807 (38 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology

Various; ed. S. Woywod, O.F.M., and J. A. McHugh, O.P. — 41 passages

Vol. II, Case XXIV: The Desecration of Altars, nn. ¶1–¶21 (21 passages)

Vol. III, Case LX: Some Remarks About the Portable Altar and its Desecration, nn. ¶1–¶20 (20 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Sacrilege — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Theologia Christiana III · Concina, Compendium · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · Slater, Questions · Slater, Back to Morality and 1 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)