A Topic of Moral Theology
The Requisites for a Pastor or Local Ordinary to Assist Licitly at Marriage
What is required for the pastor or the ordinary to assist lawfully at a marriage.
The works themselves ask 27 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
lawful assistance at marriage · permission to marry outside the parish · when a priest may lawfully witness a marriage (ed.)
In the index as Form of Celebrating Marriage · Marriage · Assistance at matrimony · Domicile · Vagrants · Rite · Habitation · Month · Monthly Residence · Parish Priest · Residence · Stay · Witnesses · Assistance · Bishop · Books · Celebration of marriage · Contracting parties · Converts · Departure · Free · Free state · Graeco-Ruthenians · Matrimony
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Eight. On the For…, Article One. On the Competent Parish Priest., nn. 643, 644, 645, 646, 647 & 648 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Eight. On the For…, Article Four. On the Assisting Parish Priest., n. 656 — 656. Declaration. On the part of the parish priest it is required that he furnish assistance. A distinction is made between active assistance, by which the parish priest performs the sacred rite in the church, and passiv… Read in context →
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. I, § II, Point II. On the Requisites for a Pastor or Local Ordinary to Assist Licitly at Marriage, n. 736 — In order that a pastor or local Ordinary assist licitly, it is required: 1° that the free status of the contracting parties be established, and indeed according to the norm of law; 2° that there be established the domici… Read in context →
Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)
144. The Nature of Marriage, n. 7 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
171. A Parish Priest Illegitimately Assisting at Marriage, n. 1 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. VIII, Art. II, § 1. The Valid and Licit Ordinary Celebration of Matrimony, n. 768 — 768. 4. The parish priest of the bride (if she is Catholic), regularly speaking, should assist at the matrimony to be celebrated, unless some just cause excuses. But any reasonable cause, even if not so grave, suffices f… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Second Part: On the Celebr…, Question Three: On the Form or Rite of the Celebration of Matrimony, n. 847 (24 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. II, Article V. On Certain Other Things to be Premised to the Celebration of Wedlock, n. 852, Q. 8 — Question 8. When does the pastor licitly assist at the marriage of wanderers, namely of those who nowhere have a domicile or quasi-domicile? Resp. Except in a case of necessity, he never assists licitly, unless, after th… Read in context →
Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. III, Article I. On the Nature of Marriage, n. 855, Q. 8 — Question 8. Is it licit for a pastor to assist at a marriage to be contracted through a procurator or interpreter without the permission of the Ordinary? Resp. The pastor is not to assist at a marriage to be contracted t… Read in context →
Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Chapter VII. On the Celebration of Marriage, nn. 906, Q. 3, 906, Q. 7, 906, Q. 11, 908, 909, 909, Q. 2, 909, Q. 3, 909, Q. 4, 909, Q. 5, 909, Q. 6, 909, Q. 7, 909, Q. 8, 909, Q. 9, 909, Q. 10, 909, Q. 11, 909, 916, 917, 917, Q. 2, 917, Q. 3, 917, Q. 4, 917, Q. 5, 917, Q. 6, 917, Q. 7, 917, Q. 8, 917, Q. 9, 917, Q. 10 & 917 (28 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Ordinary Juridic Form — Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)