A Topic of Moral Theology

The Obligation of Expending Superfluous Goods

The Obligation of Expending Superfluous Goods, as treated in Noldin (Book Second. On the Precepts of Clerics).

In the index as Clerics · Pious causes · Heir

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Part Fourth. On Particular…, Book Second. On the Precep…, Question Third. On the Obligation of Expending Superfluous Goods, nn. 779, 780, 781, 782 & 783 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. III, Chapter VII — Beneficiaries are bound out of justice, and not only out of charity, to dispense all superfluous things to the poor, nn. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII & VIII (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. VII, Disputation II: On the Sta…, Question VI: Whether bishops, and other ecclesiastics, have dominion over revenues that are superfluous to their state, nn. 1–37 (37 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Special Duties of Clerics — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist · 1917 Code of Canon Law and 2 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)