A Topic of Moral Theology
Subject-matter of Church Law
What the Church may legislate about, and the bounds of her legislative power.
The works themselves ask 5 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Name and form of ecclesiastical law · Law · Vacation of law · Brief · Bull · Competence · Cooperation · Doubt of fact, of law · Encyclical letters · Heretics · Heroic act · Human act and act of man · Ignorance: what it is and of how many kinds · Internal acts · Internal voluntary · Motu Proprio · Notion of rescript · Ordinary dispensing · Orientals exempt from the Code · Promulgation of law · Schismatics · Statute · The Code of Canon Law and custom · The Supreme Pontiff
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. III, Art. 5. Ecclesiastical Law, Subject-matter of Church Law, nn. 425 & 426 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Enchiridion, Comprising Select Decrees and Definitions of the Holy See, of Ecumenical Councils and of the Sacred Roman Congregations (Enchiridion Morale), Fourth Edition
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905), On Laws, n. 180 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Laws, nn. 262, 263, 264 & 265 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. I, Tr. III, Ch. II, Art. II, § 1. On Ecclesiastical Law Considered in Itself, nn. 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 & 271 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Laws in General, Sect. C, Sixth Part: On Ecclesiasti…, First Question: On Ecclesi…, Article II: On the Matter and Quality of Ecclesiastical Law, nn. 325, 326, 327 & 328 (28 passages — hover a number to read it)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Laws, Case 4. Non-catholics and the Law of the Church, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶11 & ¶12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The divisions of law — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Billuart, Summa Summae — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)