A Topic of Moral Theology
The use of Church revenues
Devoted to the donors' purposes; missions and their funds.
Also asked about as…
what the church does with donations (ed.)
In the index as Alienation of Church property
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. III, Section IV. Property Rights of the Church, n. 3 — The profits derived from ecclesiastical property should, according to the Church’s law and natural equity, be devoted to those purposes for which the donors gave the property. If this cannot be done because the object fo… Read in context →
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. VII, Disputation II: On the Sta…, Question VI: Whether bishops, and other ecclesiastics, have dominion over revenues that are superfluous to their state, nn. 1–37 (37 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Property Rights of the Church — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)