MERKELBACH, BENOÎT-HENRI. - Dominican moralist, b. at Tongeren (Belgium) on 6 Jan. 1871, d. at Louvain on 25 July 1942. A priest at Liège (1894), he took his degree at Louvain and taught at the Seminary of Liège (1908-17). A religious at La Sarte (1917), he was professor of moral theology at Louvain, then in Rome at the Angelicum (1929-36), and finally again at Louvain. A distinguished moralist, a contributor to various journals, and a revered teacher, he vindicated the scientific character of moral theology.

Among his various works are remembered: Summa theologiae moralis (Paris 1931-33, 5th ed., ibid. 1947); Tractatus de beatissima V. Maria Matre Dei etc. (ibid. 1939) and various short works on moral questions: De castitate et luxuria (Liège 1926, etc.); De embryologia (ibid. 1927, etc.); De variis poenitentium categoris (ibid. 1928, etc.); De poenitentiae ministro (ibid. 1928, etc.); De partibus poenitentiae etc. (ibid. 1928, etc.); De variis peccatis in sacramentali confessione medendis (ibid. 1935); De embryologia et de sterilizatione (ibid. 1937).

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BIBL.: Acta cap. gen. O. P., Rome 1932, p. 53; G. Vosté, In memoriam adm. r. p. mag. B. M., in Analecta S. O. P., 49 (1941), pp. 258-62.

Alfonso D'Amato

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