A Topic of Moral Theology
The Vice Against Distributive Justice
Respect of persons in distributing offices, benefices and burdens.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Favoritism · Distributive justice · Public offices · Ecclesiastical benefice · Justice · Respect of persons (acceptio personarum) · Choice · Collator of an ecclesiastical benefice · Fitness · Goods · Honor · Merit · Nepotism · Respect of persons, in spiritual things · Restitution
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 4. The Vices Opposed …, The Vice Against Distributive Justice, nn. 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813 & 1814 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fourth Part: On Distributi…, Question Two: On Justice and Injustice in Distributing Goods, nn. ¶1, 618, 619, 620, 621 & 622 (33 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus III. On the Secunda …, On Right and Justice, On the Vice Opposed to Distributive Justice, which is Respect of Persons, n. 1 — (D. Thomas, q. 63.)Read in context →
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus III. On the Secunda …, On Right and Justice, On the Vice Opposed to Dis…, What is respect of persons?, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus III. On the Secunda …, On Right and Justice, On the Vice Opposed to Dis…, On respect of persons in the distribution of spiritual things, nn. 1–38 (38 passages)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Acceptance of Persons, n. 1 — Commutative Justice regards things, Distributive persons; wherefore as the former is injured by exchanging things without due proportion; so the latter is offended while one person is unjustly preferred to another; which… Read in context →
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Ac…, Question I: What acceptance of persons is, and what kind of sin, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Ac…, Question II: Whether, and how, it is a sin of acceptance of persons to choose the unworthy, or less deserving, for benefices, nn. 1–62 (62 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Ac…, Question III: Whether acceptance of persons has place in the showing of honor, and reverence, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Ac…, Question IV: Whether acceptance of persons finds a place in the sentences of judges, nn. 1–16 (16 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation XXV: On the Ac…, Q. IV, Sole Doubt: Whether a judge can, without the stain of acceptance of persons, decide in favor of friends when the law is doubtful among the doctors, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Distributive Justice — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Back to Morality — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)