Solemn Vows and Sacred Orders

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Bk. IX, Ch. X, Article IX. Solemn Vows and Sacred Orders, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Article V. Sacred Order, n. 782 — I. Major or sacred Orders, that is, the Episcopate, Presbyterate, Diaconate, and Subdiaconate, diriment marriage (canon 1072, compared with canons 949 and 950). There is dispute concerning those who received sacred Order… Read in context →

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Article VI. Religion, n. 784 — I. Religious who have professed solemn vows, or simple vows to which, by special prescription of the Apostolic See, the force of invalidating nuptials has been added, invalidly attempt marriage (canon 1073). Force of thi… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 9 passages

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. IX, Art. III, § 5. The Impediment of Sacred Order, nn. 811, 812, 813, 814 & 815 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. IX, Art. III, § 6. The Diriment Impediment of a Vow or Religious Profession, nn. ¶110, 816, 817 & 818 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 33 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Third Part: On the Impedim…, Question Three: On Dirimen…, Article V: On Sacred Order and Solemn Vow, nn. ¶1, 889, 890, 891, 892 & 893 (33 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treatise on Christian Marriage

Dominic Palmieri, S.J. — 87 passages

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Elvira…, A.D. 305, nn. ¶840, ¶856 & ¶857 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Ancyra, A.D. 314, n. ¶877 — This canon is milder than Canon XIII of Elvira, nor is there speech concerning perpetual abstinence from copula. Dr. Hefele says that here the matter concerns violation of profession by legitimate marriage, but there vio… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Sarago…, A.D. 380, n. ¶957 — Canon VIII. Virgins who have vowed themselves to God are not to be veiled, except at the approved age of 40 years, which the priest shall have approved.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Responses of Timo…, Bishop of Alexandria, A.D. 380-385, nn. ¶959, ¶960 & ¶965 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Responses of Theo…, Bishop of Alexandria, A.D. 385-412, nn. ¶968 & ¶972 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Decretal Letter o…, A.D. 384, nn. ¶973, ¶980 & ¶982 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Synodal Letter of…, A.D. 386, nn. ¶983, ¶984 & ¶985 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Synodal Letter of…, Letters of the Roman Pontiffs), n. ¶989 — Decree II. A girl who has not yet been veiled, but had proposed to remain thus, although she has not been veiled in Christ, nevertheless because she has proposed it and has not been veiled in marriage (or: has been veile… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Hippo, A.D. 393, n. ¶997 — Canon XII. It pleased the council that the sons or daughters of bishops or of any clerics whatever are not joined in marriage to Gentiles or heretics or schismatics.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Carthage, A.D. 398, n. ¶1002 — Canon CIV. If any widows, however much still placed in lesser years and left by a husband at mature age, have devoted themselves to the Lord and, having cast off lay clothing, have appeared in religious habit under the t… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 400, nn. ¶1011, ¶1014, ¶1015, ¶1021, ¶1022, ¶1023 & ¶1024 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Decretal Letter o…, Bishop of Rouen, A.D. 404, nn. ¶1025, ¶1027, ¶1028, ¶1029 & ¶1032 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Decretal Letter o…, Bishop of Toulouse, A.D. 405, n. ¶1034 — Decree IV. And this also was desired to be known: why men communicating with adulterous wives are not suited, when, on the contrary, wives seem to remain in the company of adulterous husbands. Concerning this, the Christ… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Synod of St. Patr…, About A.D. 450, n. ¶1045 — Canon XVIII. A virgin who has vowed to God to remain chaste and afterwards has married a carnal spouse, let her be of excommunication until she is converted; if she has been converted and has dismissed the adulterer, let… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Arles, A.D. 443 or 452, n. ¶1064 — Canon II. Someone constituted in the bond of marriage cannot be taken up to the priesthood unless conversion has first been sent before (that is, of the wife, who has professed monastic life, or at least chastity. Cf. th… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Letter of Leo, to…, Bishop of Narbonne, A.D. 458 or 459, nn. ¶1077 & ¶1078 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Letter of Gelasiu…, A.D. 494, nn. ¶1101 & ¶1102 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Agde, …, A.D. 506, nn. ¶1105 & ¶1110 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Orleans, A.D. 511, n. ¶1117 — Canon XIII. If any woman left behind by a presbyter or deacon joins herself to anyone in a double marriage, either, having been chastised, let them be separated, or certainly, if they have persisted in the intention of t… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Epaon, A.D. 517, nn. ¶1129 & ¶1131 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 527 or 531, n. ¶1135 — Canon I. Concerning those whom the will of their parents has bound from the first years of infancy to the office of clericate, we establish that this is to be observed: that as soon as they have been tonsured or handed o… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Auvergne, A.D. 535, n. ¶1150 — Here presbyters and deacons assumed from among the married are treated more mildly than in Canon XXXVII of the Council of Epaon and Canon XVI of the Council of Agde, above.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Orleans, A.D. 538, nn. ¶1153 & ¶1154 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Capitularies of the Franks, n. ¶1170 — Around the year 560, in the Constitution of King Chlothar, it is prescribed, chapter VIII: Let no one dare to associate nuns to himself in marriage. Cf. the Capitularies of the Kings of the Franks, edition of Baluzius, a… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tours, A.D. 567, n. ¶1172 — Canon XII. Let a bishop have his wife as a sister, and in holy conversation let him govern the whole house, both ecclesiastical and his own, so that no suspicion concerning him may arise by any reason ...Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Macon, A.D. 585, n. ¶1183 — Canon XVI. Whatever woman was the wife of a subdeacon, or exorcist, or acolyte, when he has died, let her not dare to associate herself a second time in marriage. But if she has done this, let her be separated and handed… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Diocesan Synod of…, A.D. 590, n. ¶1188 — Canon XXII. It is not lawful for the widow left by a presbyter, nor for the widow left by a deacon, nor by a subdeacon, after his death, to accept a husband.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Barcel…, A.D. 599, n. ¶1212 — Canon IV. If any virgin, by her own will, having cast aside lay dress and being clothed according to the manner of devoted women, has promised to preserve chastity, or if any persons of either sex, by seeking the blessin… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Paris, A.D. 615, n. ¶1216 — Thus Sirmondus edited the canon just now recited. But Baluzius (in the Capitularies of the Franks), referring from the same Council an edict of King Chlothar on this matter, thus presents it under n. XVIII: Religious gir… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Reims, about A.D. 625, n. ¶1221 — Appeal is made to the canons already in force. Namely, those published in the preceding synods of the Gauls were held as the common law of the Church in the Gauls. There is no mention of laws proceeding from civil author… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Toledo, A.D. 633, nn. ¶1229 & ¶1232 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 721, n. ¶1251 — Canon II. If anyone has led a deaconess (the wife of a deacon) into marriage, let him be anathema.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council und…, A.D. 743, n. ¶1302 — Canon V. That no one shall presume to couple to himself by nefarious marriage a presbytera, deaconess, nun or female monk, or also a spiritual co-mother ... But if those who have been joined in this way, after being admo… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Leptin…, Legates of the Apostolic S…, A.D. 745, n. ¶1319 — Canon V. If anyone has held his stepson or stepdaughter before the bishop for confirmation, let him be separated from his wife and not accept another (from Fulbert of Chartres, Epistle 33).Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Responses of Step…, Otherwise II, which, While Dwelling in Francia, He Gave to the Britannic o…, A.D. 754, n. ¶1374 — Response VIII. Concerning a woman who, after the death of her husband, had been veiled for some time and afterward accepts a man, in the epistle of Pope Siricius directed to Himerius of Tarragona, chapter 5, it is contai… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Compie…, A.D. 756, nn. ¶1399 & ¶1401 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Calchu…, A.D. 787, n. ¶1420 — Canon XVI. By decree legitimate inheritance is denied to the children of prostitutes. For by apostolic authority we judge daughters of adulteries and of nuns to be spurious and adulterous. For a virgin who has vowed hers… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Second Council of…, A.D. 813, n. ¶1445 — Canon XXXI. It was also told to us that certain women, some carelessly, some also fraudulently, in order to be separated from their husbands, held their own sons before bishops for confirmation. Whence we judged it fitti… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Capitular of Aito, Bishop of Basel, About A.D. 822, n. ¶1448 — Namely, those who have been found joined in the fourth degree, this Bishop does not wish to be separated, but to be subjected to continual penance as long as the marriage lasts. Those joined in the third degree he does n… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Verneuil, A.D. 844, n. ¶1465 — Canon V. Those who are illicitly mingled with nuns and make sacrilegious covenants of nuptials with them, the censure of Pope Innocent commands to be suspended from communion, and not at all to be received unless through… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Meaux …, A.D. 845-46, n. ¶1468 — Canon LXV. But those who have not yet taken into marriage, with the will of the parents, under the aforesaid name of betrothal or dowry, those whom they had abducted, when this constitution has been promulgated into the … Read in context →

Bk. III, Under n. 179, This Decree in This Manner, n. ¶1474 — It has been sanctioned that public nuptials be made by those who wish to marry ... First the priest in whose parish the nuptials ought to be made must be approached, in the Church before the people. And there that priest… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, A.D. 863, n. ¶1507 — Cf. what we disputed after the epistles of Gregory the Great. Here also Nicholas abstains from a clear determination of the degrees of consanguinity and affinity, but uses a general formula. A little before, the German B… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Epistle of the Sa…, Archbishop of Bourges, A.D. 864, n. ¶1517 — Response V. Concerning those who hold their stepchildren for confirmation before the bishop, that is, who support over themselves the sons of their wife by a prior husband, while they are chrismated by bishops: if it is … Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Troyes, A.D. 1007, nn. ¶1567 & ¶1568 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Enham,…, A.D. 1009, n. ¶1579 — Canon VIII. Let it never be permitted that one imbued with the faith of Christ lead a wife within the space (of the sixth man) of his consanguinity, that is, within the fourth degree or little knee; nor the widow of anyo… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Compos…, A.D. 1056, n. ¶1588 — Canon VI. That these blood-relatives who are married be separated and fulfill penance, or be expelled from the Church and the Christian fellowship. Thus (that is, in the same manner) we dispose concerning married presbyt… Read in context →

Part IX, c. 82), n. ¶1596 — By the report of many we have learned that you wish to cast away your own wife and to adhere to another, putting forward the occasion of consanguinity. Whence, by apostolic authority, by forbidding we command you that yo… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Girona…, A.D. 1068, n. ¶1604 — Canon VII. From presbyter down to subdeacon, if they have led a wife or retained a concubine, let them go out from the clergy and lose every ecclesiastical benefice, and remain in the Church with the laity. But if they h… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Rouen, A.D. 1072, n. ¶1610 — Canon XVII. No one whose wife has been veiled shall ever accept another while she is living.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Lilleb…, King of the English, with …, A.D. 1080, n. ¶1618 — Canon II. Concerning those who hold wives from their own kinship and the wives of their relatives, let the bishops execute canonical justice. For the King sustains or protects nothing therefrom; but rather, by helping th… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Troia, Urban II Presiding, A.D. 1093, n. ¶1623 — Let the bishops whose diocesans they are convene them up to Pentecost by a threefold summons. Then if two or three men have confirmed the consanguinity by oath, or they themselves perhaps have confessed, let the marriage… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Szabol…, A.D. 1092, nn. ¶1625, ¶1626 & ¶1629 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the First Lateran Cou…, Ecumenical, A.D. 1123, nn. ¶1637 & ¶1638 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of London, A.D. 1175, n. ¶1651 — Canon XVIII. Let no faithful person, of whatever condition he may be, make nuptials secretly, but, having received the blessing from a priest, let him marry publicly in the Lord.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Title On Betrothals, Second, n. ¶1665 — Chapter IV. (The same, to the Bishop of Lucca). Just as a simple vow impedes a marriage to be contracted, but does not dirime one contracted, so the reception of the habit, without profession and renunciation of one's pr… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Fourth Lateran Co…, A.D. 1215, n. ¶1685 — Decree LI. We utterly inhibit clandestine marriages, also forbidding that any priest presume to be present at such; wherefore, extending generally to other places the special custom of certain places (cf. Constitutions o… Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 3 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II. On Impediments in Particular, nn. 882 & 883 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Diss. II, Chapter I — On diriment impediments, n. VI — VI. QUESTION III. What is the impediment of a vow and of sacred Order? ANSWER. A simple vow makes matrimony unlawful, not invalid. A solemn vow emitted in an approved Religion renders null a matrimony to be contracted; a… Read in context →

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume II

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 12 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Slater, Cases II, Matrimony, Case 17. Sacred Orders, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶11 & ¶12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)

Pope Gregory IX — 7 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Bk. IV, Title VI: Which Clerics or Persons under Vows Can Contract Marriage, cc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Gratian — 44 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Pt. II, Causa XXVII, Question I, cc. ¶ & 1–43 (44 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Hieronymus Noldin, S.J. — 2 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Five. On the Impe…, Article Three. On Diriment…, Section 5. Sacred Order., n. 580 — 580. Nature of the Impediment. The impediment of order consists in this, that one who has received sacred order (subdiaconate, diaconate, priesthood) cannot enter valid matrimony. a. Sacred order does not dirimently impe… Read in context →

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Five. On the Impe…, Article Three. On Diriment…, Section 6. Solemn Vow., n. 581 — 581. Nature of the Impediment. The impediment of vow consists in this, that those cannot enter valid matrimony who have spontaneously emitted a solemn vow of perfect chastity in a religious order, or even only a simple v… Read in context →

Pastoral Questions

Benedict H. Merkelbach, O.P. — 45 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Ch. V, Article V: Sacred Order, nn. 124, ¶6127, 125, ¶6129, ¶6130, ¶6131, ¶6132, ¶6133, 126, ¶6135, 127, ¶6137, 128, ¶6139, 129, ¶6141, ¶6142, ¶6143, ¶6144, 130, ¶6146, ¶6147, ¶6148, ¶6149, ¶6150, ¶6151, ¶6152, ¶6153 & ¶6154 (29 passages — hover a number to read it)

Ch. V, Article VI: Solemn Vow, nn. 131, ¶6156, ¶6157, 132, ¶6159, ¶6160, ¶6161, 133, ¶6163, ¶6164, 134, ¶6166, ¶6167, 135, ¶6169 & ¶6170 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 9 passages (filed under the subtopics)

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point II. On the Impediment of Vow and Order, nn. 797 & 798 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)