Moral Theology / A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities

Chapter 26: PART II SPECIAL MORAL THEOLOGY

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A systematic manual presents Catholic moral theology as the study of human conduct ordered to God as the last end, integrating reason with revealed truth and employing Thomistic principles. It lays foundational definitions and rules, distinguishes moral theology from ethics, faith, synderesis, and conscience, and treats law, virtues, vices, culpability, and the means of tending to the supernatural end. Practical and pastoral concerns receive attention through casuistical examples and discussions of sacramental and pastoral obligations, enabling application to modern moral problems while emphasizing formation of conscience and the positive cultivation of virtue.

PART II
SPECIAL MORAL THEOLOGY

743. In the First Part of this work, the means to man’s Last End were spoken of in a general way; the features that are common to all good acts—that they be human, morally deserving, directed according to law and conscience—were treated. In the present Part the means to the Last End will be discussed in particular, and we shall consider in turn the kinds of duties that are owed by all men and those owed by persons in special states of life.