A Topic of Moral Theology
Property Rights of the Church
The Church's right to acquire, hold, and administer temporal goods.
The works themselves ask 4 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Within this topic
Penalty Usurping ecclesiastical property (Can. 2346) — in Excommunications Simply Reserved to the Holy See · Alienating Church property without the apostolic beneplacitum (Can. 2347) — in Excommunications Reserved to No One
In the index as Dominion · Moral person · Alienation · Church · Goods · Alienation of Church property · Buying and selling · Church (corporation) · Communities · Eminent domain of the Church over its property · Hiring-letting · Pope · Prescription · Property · Public and private societies · State
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. III, Section IV. Property Rights of the Church, nn. ¶1, 1, 2 & 3 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, § II, Point V. On the Ownership of Moral Persons, nn. 785, 786 & 787 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, § III, Point IV, Scholion. On Prescription for Ecclesiastical Goods, n. 811 — I. The Church recognizes prescription as a mode of acquiring ecclesiastical goods and of liberating oneself from a debt arising either from a disposition of ecclesiastical authority or from a contract entered concerning … Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § VI, Point II, Scholion. On the Sale of Ecclesiastical Goods, n. 905 — Besides those things which we are going to say about every alienation of ecclesiastical goods - for these things also must be applied to sale, since it is one of the modes of alienating - it suffices, as regards sale, to… Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § VII, Point I, Scholion. On the Letting-Hiring of Ecclesiastical Things, n. 911 — I. The contract of lease of some ecclesiastical fund should not be made except according to the norm of canon 1531, § 2; and in these contracts there should always be added conditions concerning the boundaries to be guar… Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § XIII, Point III, Scholion. On the Alienation of Ecclesiastical Things, nn. 973 & 974 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article VI: On the Dominion of Moral Persons, nn. 198, 199 & 200 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § 3. On the Ownership of Moral Persons, nn. ¶871, ¶1, ¶872, ¶2, ¶873, ¶874, ¶875 & ¶876 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the subject of dominion, n. ¶5 — Point V. On the dominion of the Church and of clerics.. Since the condition of the temporal things of the Church in our Federated States is altogether peculiar and because, on account of circumstances, in many things it cannot be arranged according to the norm of the sacred C… Read in context →
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § I. Whether and of what temporal things the Church can have dominion, and in what way this is recognized by our law, nn. ¶619 & ¶620 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. What is the subject in which direct dominion of ecclesiastical goods resides, and what is required so that they may be legitimately acquired and held, nn. ¶621, ¶622 & ¶623 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § III. To whom the administration of ecclesiastical goods pertains, and in what way it is to be conducted, nn. ¶624, ¶625, ¶626 & ¶627 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § IV. What are the various species of ecclesiastical goods, and what is to be observed here concerning each, nn. ¶1, ¶628, ¶629, ¶630, ¶631, ¶632, ¶633, ¶634, ¶635, ¶636 & ¶637 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. VII, Disputation II: On the Sta…, Question V: Whether the Church, and bishops, have dominion over certain temporal things, nn. 1–19 (19 passages)
Tr. VII, Disputation II: On the Sta…, Question VI: Whether bishops, and other ecclesiastics, have dominion over revenues that are superfluous to their state, nn. 1–37 (37 passages)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part I — Chapter I: On the Existence of Right, nn. 195–209 (15 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Who May Own Property — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)