Effects voluntary in their cause

Evil effects not intended in themselves but foreseen; sins of omission; when a sin voluntary in its cause is committed (the Saturday-night drunkard and Sunday Mass)

The works themselves ask 15 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

liable for what follows from my act · responsible for the consequences (ed.)

In the index as Voluntary · Effects · Cause · Drunkenness · Effect: what it is and of how many kinds · Permission, in a moral matter · Imputation: what it is and of how many kinds · Per se... by accident · Pollution (Pollutio) · Another's action, how it is imputed · Cause per se, by accident · Cooperation · Lust · Sin · The good from the whole cause · Bad effects of an action · Culpability · Efficacy of intention · Impudicity · Imputability · Imputability of human acts · Imputability of the human act · Malice · Omission (Omissio)

In the manuals

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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 3 passages

Vol. I, Bk. I, Chapter II. Voluntary Acts, nn. 5, 6 & 7 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 4 passages

Vol. I, On Human Acts, I. On the Nature of the Human Act, nn. 34, 38, 39 & 40 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

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)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 7 passages

4. On the Indirectly Voluntary, nn. 1 & 2 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 49 passages

Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts, Commentary IV: On the Other Divisions of the Voluntary, nn. 1–33 & 34–47 (49 passages)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 32 passages

Vol. I, Treatise on Human Acts, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the Voluntary in Particular, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, 8, 9 & 10 (32 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. — 8 passages

Vol. I, Tr. II, Tit. V, Article I: On Moral Imputation, nn. 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 & 135 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 7 passages

Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § 2. On The Indirect Voluntary Or Voluntary In The Cause, nn. ¶31, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 & 62 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Benedict H. Merkelbach, O.P. — 9 passages

Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions, I. Questions Concerning Ch…, On Chastity and Lust, Question Two: Concerning Chastity and Lust in General — Theological Principles, nn. ¶127, ¶128, ¶129, ¶130, ¶131, ¶132, ¶133, ¶134 & ¶135 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 40 passages

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Human Acts in…, First Part: On Human Acts …, Section A: On the Conditio…, Ch. I, Question One: On the Volun…, Article III: On the Voluntary in Itself and in Cause, nn. ¶1, 62, 63 & 64 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Sins in General, First Part: On Sin Accordi…, First Question: On the Ess…, Art. III, Indirectly or in the Cause Voluntary, nn. ¶1, 422, 423 & 424 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: On the Virtue …, Question Two: On Drunkenness, Article II: On Other Sins Committed on the Occasion of Drunkenness, nn. ¶1, 991, 992 & 993 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Clement Marc, C.SS.R. — 3 passages

Vol. I, Part First: On the First P…, Tr. III, Appendix: On Good Acts, Art. II, § 2. On the Morality of an Indirectly Voluntary Effect, nn. ¶313, ¶314 & ¶315 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Anthony Konings, C.SS.R. — 5 passages

Vol. I, Treatise on Human Acts, Ch. II, Art. I, § II. On the Voluntary in Species, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 4 passages

Vol. I, Tr. I, Ch. II, Article II. On the Indirect Voluntary, or Voluntary in Cause, nn. 6, 7, 8 & 9 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 20 passages

Slater, Cases I, Human Acts, Case 5. Voluntary Per Accidens, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9 & ¶10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Slater, Cases I, Human Acts, Case 6. Voluntary in the Cause, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9 & ¶10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Voluntariety and Free Choice — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)