SEVENTH COMMANDMENT § 83. The Law condemns every one who by theft, fraud, usury, or aleatory devices, obtains or seeks to obtain what is or should be another’s property,1 all covetousness,2 prodigality,3 idleness,4 and him by whose fault his neighbor …
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84 – Eighth Commandment
EIGHTH COMMANDMENT § 84. The Law condemns every one who violates the truth by maliciously thinking1 or uttering2 what he does not know to be true or knows to be untrue, or pretending to be, to do or to intend …
85 – Ninth and Tenth Commandments
NINTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS § 85. The Law condemns all men even because of the evil inclinations and moral impurities of their hearts. Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor …
86 – Natural Law and Conscience
NATURAL LAW AND CONSCIENCE § 86. The natural moral Law, which is binding upon all men1 and was originally inscribed in the human heart,2 was by the fall of our first ancestors obscured,3 but not entirely effaced,4 and, being transmitted …
87 – Universal Condemnation
UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION § 87. The natural Law, also the Sinaitic Decalogue1 as far as it concerns all mankind and is but a codification of the original moral Law,2 is condemnatory of the natural state and the conduct of every man,3 …
88 – Materiale of Good and Evil Acts
MATERIALE OF GOOD AND EVIL ACTS § 88. The performance of the materiale only of works prescribed by the divine Law is no more the performance of good works1 than God can be truly said to work evil 2 as …
89 – Divine Government of Evil
DIVINE GOVERNMENT OF EVIL § 89. The evil acts of men are, furthermore, under divine control, inasmuch as God in His providence prevents the conception or the execution of many evil designs,1 confines within certain bounds others, whose conception and …
90 – Means of Government
MEANS OF GOVERNMENT § 90. Among the means by which God curbs the evil inclinations or propensities of men in their state of natural depravity, and directs them to His wise, good, and just purposes, we find the moral Law, …
91 – Moral Law – A Curb or Bar
MORAL LAW — A CURB OR BAR § 91. The moral Law serves as a curb or bar to the inclinations of men in two ways: first inasmuch as it is a norm for the various functions of the human …
92 – Matrimony
MATRIMONY § 92. The divine institution of matrimony, which is the status of union for life1 of one man and one woman,2 established and sustained by their mutual consent,3 for legitimate sexual intercourse,4 the procreation of children,5 and mutual aid …