DE SMET, LOUIS. – Belgian moral theologian and canonist, born in 1868, died in 1927. Professor in Bruges.
Writings: Commentarius in decretum de sponsalibus et matrimonio (Bruges 1908); De casibus reservatis etc., (ibid. 1913); De Sacramentis in genere, de Baptismo et Confirmatione (ibid. 1915); Praxis matrimonialis ad sum parochi et confessarii (Bruges 1920; republished in 1939).
His Tractatus theologico-canonicus de sponsalibus et matrimonio is a classic (4th ed., ibid. 1927).
BIBL.: D. M. Prümmer, Manuale theol. moralis, I, 6th and 7th eds., Fribourg in Br. 1931, p. II; E. Génicot-J. Salmans, Instutiones theologiae moralis, II, 16th ed., Brussels 1946, p. 619.