SABETTI, LUIGI. - Moral theologian, b. at Roseto-Valfortore (Foggia) on 3 Jan. 1839, d. at Baltimore on 28 Nov. 1898.

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1860, the political upheavals of the time forced him to complete his studies in France and then to emigrate to the United States (1871), where, instead of going to the mission among the Pelliròssa, he received the chair of moral theology at the Woodstock scholasticate. He had the merit of being the modernizer of the work of Fr. P. Gury, adapting it to the Anglo-Saxon world, with his Compendium Teologiae moralis (Cincinnati 1884; 33rd ed. edited by T. Barret, ibid. 1931), valued not only for its doctrine but also for the clarity and precision of its exposition. Also valuable is his Decree's Quemadmodum (17 Dec. 1890) with explanations (Baltimore 1892); and the contribution he made to the founding of the American Ecclesiastical Review, where from the very beginning he published the solution of moral cases.

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BIBL.: necrologio, in Amer. Ecclesiastical Review, 20 (1890), pp. 65-67; anon., Father Aloysius S. - An autobiography with Reminiscences, in Woodstock Letters, 29 (1900), pp. 208-33; Hurter, V, col. 2055.

Enrico Hoffmann

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