A Topic of Moral Theology
Stocks and Bonds
Stocks and Bonds, as treated in McHugh–Callan (Art. 1. The Duties of Members of the Church).
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Contract · Loans · Agency · Annuities · Bailments · Barter · Bonds · Buying and Selling · Clerics · Contractor’s Agreement · Deposit · Guaranty · Insurance · Lease · Management of another’s affairs · Mortgage · Partnership · Pawn · Pledge · Stocks · Stocks and Bonds · Surety · _Commodatum_ · _Mandatum_
In the manuals
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 3. The Subjective Par…, The Objects of Commutative Justice, n. 1749 — Forms of Contract. Forms of Contract.—The chief forms of contract are the following: (a) gratuitous contracts, which are those that confer advantage on only one of the contractants, or those in which no payment or compensation for his acts… Read in context →
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. III, Art. 1. The Duties of Memb…, Stocks and Bonds, n. 2605 — Is It Lawful for Clerics to Purchase and Sell Stocks and Bonds?—(a) If this conduct has the character of gambling or trading for profit, it is forbidden by Canon 138 or 142, as the case may be, and is gravely or venially… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading Things Forbidden to Clerics — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist · Decretum of Gratian — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)