A Topic of Moral Theology
The Communicant
Who may receive Communion, and the order and manner of giving it.
The works themselves ask 9 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Communion · Eucharist · Deacon · Viaticum
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. II, Pt. II, Q. IV, Art. 2. Baptism; Confirmat…, The Communicant, n. 2704 — The Recipient of the Eucharist. The Recipient of the Eucharist.—(a) Those Who May Receive Communion.—According to divine law, every living person who has received Baptism of water is capable of receiving the Eucharist, infants and the insane not exclud… Read in context →
Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)
117. On the Minister and Subject of the Eucharist, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (39 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. IV, Appendix, Communion of the Minister, nn. ¶1 & ¶2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Spirago — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)