A Topic of Moral Theology
What the capital vices are
Why seven; sources of many other sins.
In the index as Capital sins · Pride · Authority of St. Thomas · Sin · *Habitus peccaminosi* · *Saligia* · Covetousness, a capital vice · Gregory the Great, St. · Habits · Others' sins · Peter Lombard · Sloth · Vanity · Vice
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. IV, Pt. II, Chapter II. The Capital Vices, n. 1 — THEOLOGIANS divide the chief vices to which human nature is subject into seven heads or capital sins, as they are called. The name implies that they are the source and origin of many more, inasmuch as the inordinate love… Read in context →
A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)
Vol. II, Pt. I, Ch. II, Section 2: The Seven Capital Sins, nn. ¶1, ¶2 & ¶3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. I, Tr. V, Ch. II, Art. I, § 1. General Notions, nn. 466, 467 & 468 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Sins in General, Second Part: On the Causes…, Third Question: On Sin Whi…, Article I: On the Mode in Which One Sin Causes Another, nn. ¶1, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497 & 498 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Capital Vices — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Spirago — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)