A Topic of Moral Theology
The Person Dispensing
The Person Dispensing, as treated in Wouters (Chapter I. On the Person Dispensing).
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
deacon giving communion · extraordinary minister · lay people distributing communion · who can distribute communion (ed.)
In the index as Viaticum · Communion · Pastor · Deacon · Bishop · Delegation · Dispensation of the Eucharist · Layman · Religious superior · The Most Holy Eucharist · A stole · Carrying of Communion · Diaconate · Distribution of Holy Communion · Household members · One living in the same house · Religious women · Small spoon · Students
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. IV, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. II, Chapter I. On the Person Dispensing, nn. ¶1, 163 & 164 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. IV, Sect. I, Ch. V, Article II. On the Distribution of the Eucharist, n. 217 — 217. 1. The power of distributing. One minister of distribution is ordinary, another extraordinary. The ordinary minister of distributing the Eucharist is the priest alone. For the Council of Trent declared: "It was alwa… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Most Holy…, Section B: On the Eucharis…, First Part: On the Euchari…, Question Four: On the Mini…, Article III: On the Secondary Minister of Distribution, nn. ¶1, 336, 337, 338, 339 & 340 (27 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Dispensation of the Most Holy Sacrament — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)