A Topic of Moral Theology

The Impediments of the Conjugal Act

The Impediments of the Conjugal Act, as treated in Noldin (Book Two. On the Use of Marriage.).

In the index as Conjugal debt · Conjugal act, · Abstinence from the use of marriage · Adultery · Requesting the conjugal debt · A grave excusing cause · Code of Canon Law · Days on which there is less hope of fertilization · Vow of chastity · A drunken person seeking the debt · An adulterer loses the right of cohabiting and seeking the debt · An adulterer seeking the debt · An insane person seeking the debt · Caesarean operation · Confessor · Cooperation · Denial of intercourse for two months · Entrance into religion and intercourse · Harm preventing intercourse · Harm to offspring preventing intercourse · Incest · Man · Ovaries · Rendering the conjugal debt

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On the Sixth Precept and t…, Book Two. On the Use of Ma…, Question Five. On the Impediments of the Conjugal Act., nn. ¶1, 97, 98, 99, 100 & 101 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

On Chastity and on the Contrary Vices: A Doctrinal and Moral Treatise

Ch. I, Article III. What Use of Marriage is Owed, nn. 244, ¶1366, ¶1367, ¶1368, ¶1369, 245, ¶1370, ¶1371, ¶1372, 246, ¶1373, 247, ¶1374, 248, 249, ¶1375, ¶1376, ¶1377, 250, 251, ¶1378, ¶1379, 252, 253, 254, ¶1380, ¶1381, 255, ¶1382 & ¶1383 (30 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Fourth Part: On the Obliga…, Question One: On the Conju…, Article V: On Defect in the Use of Marriage, nn. ¶1, 959, 960, 961 & 962 (41 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. VI, Disputation II: On the Vic…, Q. III, Doubt IX: On lust between spouses, nn. 1–30 (30 passages)

Treated under the broader heading The Marriage Debt — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, What Is Marriage? · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology and 5 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)