A Topic of Moral Theology
The Church's right to own property
A perfect society; who owns Church property.
The works themselves ask 4 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Bishop (Episcopus) · Goods (Bona) · Church, as temple (Ecclesia, ut templum) · Dominion (Dominium) · Moral person · Abandoned · Clerics (Clerici) · Colleges ("Corporations") · Corporations · Oblations (Oblationes) · Church · Hospitals · Ownership of ecclesiastical goods · Trustees (Aeditui, "Trustees?") · Administration of temporal goods of the Church · Administrators of goods of the Church · Avarice (Avaritia) · Benefice (Beneficium) · Cathedraticum · Church (as society) has the right of possessing temporal goods · Church (corporation) · Communities · Community · Composition with the Holy See
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. III, Section IV. Property Rights of the Church, nn. ¶1, 1 & 2 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part I — Chapter I: On the Existence of Right, nn. 195–209 (15 passages)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § 3. On the Ownership of Moral Persons, nn. ¶871, ¶1, ¶872, ¶2, ¶873, ¶874, ¶875 & ¶876 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the subject of dominion, n. ¶5 — Point V. On the dominion of the Church and of clerics.. Since the condition of the temporal things of the Church in our Federated States is altogether peculiar and because, on account of circumstances, in many things it cannot be arranged according to the norm of the sacred C… Read in context →
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § I. Whether and of what temporal things the Church can have dominion, and in what way this is recognized by our law, nn. ¶619 & ¶620 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. What is the subject in which direct dominion of ecclesiastical goods resides, and what is required so that they may be legitimately acquired and held, nn. ¶621, ¶622 & ¶623 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § III. To whom the administration of ecclesiastical goods pertains, and in what way it is to be conducted, nn. ¶624, ¶625, ¶626 & ¶627 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § IV. What are the various species of ecclesiastical goods, and what is to be observed here concerning each, nn. ¶1, ¶628, ¶629, ¶630, ¶631, ¶632, ¶633, ¶634, ¶635, ¶636 & ¶637 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article VI: On the Dominion of Moral Persons, nn. 198, 199 & 200 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. VII, Disputation II: On the Sta…, Question V: Whether the Church, and bishops, have dominion over certain temporal things, nn. 1–19 (19 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Property Rights of the Church — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology — this work does not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so its treatment stands one heading up (ed.)