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• Abstinence (ASTINENZA) Vol. II, p. 155
  ABSTINENCE. - From the Latin abs-teneo "I keep away," a. entails abstaining from something either temporarily or entirely. From the dietary…
• Age (ETÀ) Vol. V, p. 407
  AGE. - I. CANON LAW. - In general it is a natural condition, which has an influence both on legal capacity and on the capacity to act (v.…
• Apostasy (APOSTASIA) Vol. I, p. 993
  APOSTASY. - It is the total abandonment of the faith by one who has received Baptism, and is distinguished from heresy, which consists in…
• Betting and Gambling (SCOMMESSA E GIUOCHI D'AZZARDO) Vol. XI, p. 101
  BETTING AND GAMBLING. - A bet is a bilateral aleatory contract, by which two persons, disagreeing about the truth or the outcome of a…
• Birth Control (NASCITE, CONTROLLO (BIRTH-CONTROL) DELLE) Vol. VIII, p. 983
  BIRTH CONTROL. - A form of voluntary or coercive regulation that seeks to subordinate the procreation of individuals to social, hygienic,…
• Chastity (CASTITÀ) Vol. III, p. 609
  CHASTITY. - A moral virtue that regulates the appetite for sexual pleasure, inherent in the generative act. It is a virtue because it…
• Curse (MALEDIZIONE) Vol. VII, p. 1133
  CURSE. - The curse is a daughter of wrath and consists in invoking evil upon others. Being formally a sentence, the curse can also be…
• Derision (IRRIISIONE) Vol. VII, p. 152
  DERISION. - Significa dileggio, beffa, scherno. È il comportamento di colui che, con il sarcasmo contenuto principalmente nel modo di…
• Dominative Potestas (POTESTÀ DOMINATIVA) Vol. IX, p. 1105
  DOMINATIVE POTESTAS. - The right of an imperfect society and of the superiors constituted within it to command the individual members and…
• Histriones (ISTRIONI) Vol. VII, p. 230
  HISTRIONES. - From the Latin histrio -onis (also minus), that is, comedian, mime, this was the name given to the actor in the Roman…
• Human Monster (MOSTRO UMANO) Vol. VIII, p. 884
  HUMAN MONSTER. - An individual presenting one or more anomalies such as to render it gravely aberrant from normality (v. TERATOLOGY). Human…
• Interpretation (INTERPRETAZIONE) Vol. VII, p. 82
  INTERPRETATION. - In legal language it is the logical operation whose object is the search for and explanation of the genuine meaning of…
• Interpreter (INTERPRETE) Vol. VII, p. 88
  INTERPRETER. - Even in the current canonical order the ancient juridical institution of the interpreter has its importance; as regards the…
• Lie (MENZOGNA) Vol. VIII, p. 425
  LIE. - From Latin mentitio-onis, that is, a false assertion. Regarding the question of the nature and morality of the lie, the opinions of…
• Mercimonio Vol. VIII, p. 434
  MERCIMONIO (Simony/Traffic in Sacred Things). - It generally denotes any illicit traffic, whatever the source of its illegality. In a…
• Modesty and Chastity (PUDORE E PUDICIZIA) Vol. X, p. 180
  MODESTY AND CHASTITY. - Modesty belongs as much to the sensory-instinctive sphere as to the conscious-intellectual one: in the first case…
• Moral Case, Assembly of (CASO MORALE, ADUNANZA DEL) Vol. III, p. 577
  MORAL CASE, Assembly of. - A gathering of priests, in the episcopal city or in the individual rural deaneries, to discuss specific subjects…
• Narcotics (NARCOTICI) Vol. VIII, p. 978
  NARCOTICS. - Unlike hypnotics (v.), they are those substances that determine a far deeper sleep (Gr. ναρκωτικός = that induces torpor),…
• Oath (GIURAMENTO) Vol. VI, p. 474
  OATH. - I. NOTION. - It is the invocation of God as witness to the truth of one's statement and to the actual undertaking of a future act…
• Polygyny (POLIGINIA) Vol. IX, p. 1006
  POLYGYNY. - From the Greek πολύς = much and γυνή = wife, it is the simultaneous marital cohabitation of one man with several women. I.…
• Public Honesty (PUBBLICA ONESTÀ) Vol. X, p. 175
  PUBLIC HONESTY. - It is a bond, analogous to affinity (v.), which, however, unlike the latter, does not derive from a valid marriage, but…
• Slavery (SCHIAVITÙ) Vol. XI, p. 50
  SLAVERY. - From the ancient German slav, a word applied by the Germans to the Slavic peoples whom they took captive, and it may be defined…
• Snare (INSIDIA) Vol. VII, p. 59
  SNARE. - The ambush (from the Latin insidiae and insideo) is the deceit secretly prepared against someone, and it takes different names…
• Spiritism (SPIRITISMO) Vol. XI, p. 682
  SPIRITISM. - In the attempt to give an explanation to the phenomena that are the object of metapsychics (v.), notable and particularly…
• Stockjobbing (AGGIOTAGGIO) Vol. I, p. 287
  STOCKJOBBING. - Speculation consisting in publishing or otherwise divulging false, exaggerated or tendentious news, or employing other…
• Strike (SCIOPERO) Vol. XI, p. 86
  STRIKE. - It is the concerted abstention from work. The phenomenon is quite complex and can be studied from several points of view. Of…
• Suffering (SOFFERENZA) Vol. XI, p. 537
  SUFFERING. - A philosophical-moral problem, psychologically arduous, is posed by the fact that suffering accompanies everyone's life.…
• Urgent Case (CASO URGENTE) Vol. III, p. 578
  URGENT CASE. - Under this name (as under that of extraordinary case, perplexed case) are understood in moral theology and in canon law the…
• Vocation (VOCAZIONE) Vol. XII, p. 986
  VOCATION. - From the Latin vocatio = call. The divine v. implies, on the efficient line, the divine will or election of a human creature…