A Topic of Moral Theology

The Duty of Administering the Sacraments

When justice or charity obliges the minister to administer the sacraments, even at personal risk.

Within this topic

In the index as Minister · Sacrament · Public sinners · A pastor of souls · Denial · Minister of the Sacraments · Sickness · Viaticum · Annual confession · Concubinage · Contagion · Dissimulation · Extreme Unction · Fiction · Ministration of the sacraments · Occult sinner · Parish Priest · Pastor · Plague · Simulation

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. II, Ch. III, Section III. The Duty of Administering the Sacraments, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. I, Diss. II, Pt. II, Section III. On the Obligation of Ministering, nn. 34, 35, 36 & 37 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. III, On the Sacraments in General, III. On the Minister of the Sacraments, nn. 360, 361, 362, 363 & 364 (5 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.

Vol. II, Treatise On the Sacraments…, Ch. III, Article II. On the Office of the Minister, n. ¶1 — 1º As to the obligation of ministering the Sacraments; 2º as to the obligation of sometimes denying them; 3º as to the manner of conferring them.Read in context →

Vol. II, Treatise On the Sacraments…, Ch. III, Art. II, § I. On the Obligation of Ministering the Sacraments, n. 213 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Treatise On the Sacraments…, Ch. III, Art. II, § II. On the Obligation of Denying the Sacraments to the Unworthy Who Ask, n. 217 — 217. General principle. - The Minister is held under grave obligation, speaking per se, to deny the Sacraments to the unworthy, because natural law obliges a dispenser to dispense the goods of the Lord faithfully and acc… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. I, Ch. V, Art. VI, § 1. On Giving The Sacraments, nn. ¶18, 72, 73 & 74 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Sacrament…, Fourth Part: On the Cause …, Question Two: On the Minis…, Article IV: On Those to Whom the Sacraments Are to Be Ministered, nn. ¶1, 86, 87, 88, 89 & 90 (34 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. II, Tr. XVI, Chapter IV. On the Minister of Extreme Unction, n. 826, Q. 2 — Question 2. Whether, or what kind, is the obligation of ministering Extreme Unction? Resp. The ordinary minister is held from justice to administer this sacrament personally himself or through another; and in a case of n… Read in context →

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. I, Chapter IV — On the ministers of the sacraments, nn. XIX & XXI (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Catechism of the Council of Trent (The Roman Catechism)

Pt. II, The Sacraments in General, nn. ¶59, ¶60 & ¶61 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. IV, Art. 2. Baptism; Confirmat…, Duties of Adult Recipients, n. 2692 — Duties of Adult Recipients of Baptism or of Those Who Have the Use of Reason. Duties of Adult Recipients of Baptism or of Those Who Have the Use of Reason.—(a) Before Baptism.—An unbaptized person who has faith and who sees the necessity of Baptism, is gravely obliged to ask for Baptism at once, i… Read in context →

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. IV, Art. 2. Baptism; Confirmat…, The Pastor, n. 2698 — Duties of the Pastor in Reference to Confirmation. Duties of the Pastor in Reference to Confirmation.—(a) The pastor should instruct his people on the nature and advantages of Confirmation and should see to it that they receive the Sacrament in due time (Canon 787). He s… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading The Minister of the Sacraments — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Slater, Cases II — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)