A Topic of Moral Theology
The Reduction of a Cleric to the Lay State
The Reduction of a Cleric to the Lay State, as treated in Wouters (Scholion. On the Reduction of a Cleric to the Lay State).
Also asked about as…
defrocking · laicization · priest leaving the priesthood · return to the lay state (ed.)
In the index as Cleric · Reduction
In the manuals
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. I, Scholion. On the Reduction of a Cleric to the Lay State, nn. 1154, 1155 & 1156 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Special Duties of Clerics — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · 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 · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist and 3 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)