A Topic of Moral Theology

The sin of omission

The sin of omission, as treated in Billuart (On the Nature of Sin).

In the index as Imputability of the human act · Omission of an act · Omission, sin of · Sin

In the manuals

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Sins in General, First Part: On Sin Accordi…, First Question: On the Ess…, Article II: On the Sin of Omission Negatively Voluntary, nn. ¶1, 419, 420 & 421 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)

Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Sins, On the Nature of Sin, On the sin of omission, nn. 1–29 (29 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Sin — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Koch–Preuss · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis and 4 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)