A Topic of Moral Theology
Postulancy
The postulancy before the novitiate: who is admitted to it, and for how long.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
first stage of religious life · postulant (ed.)
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In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. III, Sect. I, Ch. III, Art. II, § I. On Postulancy, n. 1223 — I. In religions of perpetual vows, all women and, if there is question of a religion of men, lay brothers, before they are admitted to the novitiate, should complete a postulancy for at least six full months; but in reli… Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, Scholion. On Confessors to…, I. Clerical Religion of Men, n. 374 — I. In individual houses of a clerical religion, several confessors legitimately approved should be deputed in proportion to the number of members, with the power, if the case concerns an exempt religion, of absolving eve… Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, Scholion. On Confessors to…, II. Lay Religion of Men, n. 375 — I. Also in lay religions of men an ordinary and extraordinary confessor should be deputed; and if a religious asks for some special confessor, the Superior should grant him, in no way inquiring into the reason for the pe… Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, Scholion. On Confessors to…, III. Religion of Women, n. 377 — II. As regards naming confessors of women novices, the things said about the religious women themselves hold (can. 566, § 1). Postulants, as regards this matter, are numbered among religious women, although it can be dis… Read in context →
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, On the Particular Obligati…, III. On the Novitiate, nn. 262 & 273 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Admission Itself into Religion — Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) — this work does not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so its treatment stands one heading up (ed.)