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Pious Foundations

Pious Foundations, as treated in Wouters (Scholion I. On Pious Foundations).

Also asked about as…

endowed masses · foundation masses · mass foundations · perpetual masses (ed.)

In the index as Pious foundations · Notion of a pious foundation · Obligation of administering a sacrament · Stipend · Bishop · Inscription · Notation of Baptism · Reduction · Religious superior

In the manuals

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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 4 passages

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. IV, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. IV, Art. V, Scholion I. On Pious Foundations, nn. 233, 234, 235 & 236 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. — 3 passages

Vol. III, Bk. II, Tr. IV, Ch. II, Article II: On Founded Masses, nn. 294, 295 & 296 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 9 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Most Holy…, Section B: On the Eucharis…, Second Part: On the Precep…, Question One: On the Oblig…, Article IV: On the Obligation from Stipend, n. 381 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading The Safeguards of the Law — Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology — this work does not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so its treatment stands one heading up (ed.)