A Topic of Moral Theology
Sins Crying to Heaven
The four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: wilful murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, defrauding the labourer.
In the index as Murder · Others' sins · Sodomy · Abortion · Avarice · Bankruptcy · Calumny · Capital punishment · Cruelty · Damnation · Defrauding laborers of their just hire · Internal sins · Jealousy · Laborers · Lust · Malice · Masochism · Monopolies · Oppression · Orphans · Piracy · Poor · Prisoners · Profiteering
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On the Principles of Moral…, Book Sixth. On Sins., Question Seventh. On Certa…, Article Second. On Sins Crying to Heaven., n. 351 — 351. What they are. Sins crying to heaven are numbered as four: a. voluntary homicide; b. sodomy; c. oppression of the poor, widows, and orphans; d. defrauded wages of workers. These sins contain such abominable malice t… Read in context →
A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)
Vol. II, Pt. I, Ch. II, Section 3: The Sins That Cry to Heaven for Vengeance, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶11 & ¶12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. I, Tr. V, Ch. II, Article III: Concerning Sins Which Call for Heavenly Vengeance, nn. 490 & 491 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Sin — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions and 4 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)