A Topic of Moral Theology
The Faculty of Choosing a Confessor
The faculty of choosing a confessor for gaining a jubilee or indulgence, and who may use it.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
choosing any confessor during a jubilee · jubilee confessor (ed.)
In the index as Confession · Jubilee · Nuns · Regulars
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Appendix. On Indulgences, Pt. II, Sect. VIII, Ch. II, Article I. On the Faculty of Choosing a Confessor, n. 554 — I. Nuns, and their novices, candidates, and postulants who are educated by them and live with them, and also all religious sisters of simple vows with novices, candidates, and girls being educated, though not externs and… Read in context →
Moral Enchiridion, and Supplement to the Compendium of Moral Theology of Gury-Ballerini (Enchiridion Morale)
Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion, On the Jubilee, nn. ¶28 & ¶29 (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 the Jubilee, n. 1374 (2 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, Appendix. On Indulgences a…, Chapter II. On the Jubilee, n. 1075 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Penance (Volume I), Appendix: On Indulgences, n. 639 — 1° On the Faculty of Choosing a Confessor. 639. (A) Nuns properly so called, making solemn vows, and their novices, can choose for themselves, for gaining the Jubilee, a confessor from among those who, for nuns, for any monastery whatsoever, have been approved as… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading The jubilee: what it is and its conditions — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Concina, Theologia Christiana III · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)