A Topic of Moral Theology

Secular business, offices and Parliament

Agency, secular offices, standing for Parliament (Can. 137–139).

Also asked about as…

a priest running a business (ed.)

In the index as Business dealing of clerics · CLERICS · Cleric · Exercise of the medical art induces irregularity · Actions · Agency · Commerce · Curator of minors · Gambling or gaming · Historical matters, concerning the name of Clergy · Hunting forbidden to clerics · Incardination of a cleric · Liberal arts · Members of Parliament and clerics · Obedience of clerics · Obligations · Public secular offices prohibited to Clerics and Beneficed persons · Surety and clerics · Surgery and medical practice forbidden to clerics · Surgical art · Titles possessed by clerics

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. I, Pt. II, Chapter V. Things Forbidden to Clerics, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. II, Scholion. On the Buying and Selling of Bonds and Shares, nn. 1187 & 1188 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Vol. III, First Book: On Persons in …, Tr. I, Ch. III, Art. I, § 2. On Business Dealing Prohibited to Clerics, nn. 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Vol. II, Pt. IV, Tr. II, Ch. I, Article II: On Those Things Which Are Prohibited To Clerics, nn. ¶1, ¶2225 & ¶2226 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. IV, Disputation II: On the Rel…, Sect. I, Question XVI: Whether it is lawful for religious to transact secular business, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Pt. I, Distinction LXXXVIII, cc. & 1–14 (15 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXI, Question III, cc. , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)

Bk. III, Title L: Lest Clerics or Monks Involve Themselves in Secular Business, cc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII

Bk. III, Title XXIV: Lest Clerics or Monks Involve Themselves in Secular Business, cc. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Things Forbidden to Clerics — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)