A Topic of Moral Theology
The Penalties Established Against Transgressors
The Penalties Established Against Transgressors, as treated in Wouters (Scholion. On the Penalties Established Against Transgressors).
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penalty for violating the seal · punishment for breaking the seal of confession (ed.)
In the index as Sacramental seal · Confession certificate · Confessor · Testimony
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. III, § I, Point IV, Scholion. On the Penalties Established Against Transgressors, n. 440 — I. The confessor who has presumed to violate the sacramental seal directly (n. 428) is subject to excommunication reserved in the most special manner to the Apostolic See (can. 2369, § 1). II. A confessor who has violate… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Penance, Fourth Part: On the Minist…, Question Three: On the Dut…, Article III: On the Duties after the Act of Confession, n. 630 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Seal of Confession — Slater, 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 · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II and 4 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)