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  • [158] and obtained great popularity; it treats chiefly of the. casus conscientiae, that is, of such moral questions as the common conscience cannot immediately and satisfactorily decide, but in regard to which it may fall into doubt, and which consequently can be decided only by a careful weighing of the word of God.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Quemadmodum in Litteris die X superioris mensis Martii Episcopis catholicis destinatis planum fecimus, excommunicationis remissio deliberatio fuit ad ecclesiasticam disciplinam pertinens, qua conscientiae pondere levarentur, quod gravissima ecclesiastica censura secum fert.

    RORATE CÆLI 2009

  • Quemadmodum in Litteris die X superioris mensis Martii Episcopis catholicis destinatis planum fecimus, excommunicationis remissio deliberatio fuit ad ecclesiasticam disciplinam pertinens, qua conscientiae pondere levarentur, quod gravissima ecclesiastica censura secum fert.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Vacant conscientiae carnificina, nec pudefiunt, nec verentur, nec dilacerantur millibus curarum, quibus tota vita obnoxia est.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Minuit se quodammodo proba bonitas conscientiae secretum, Boethius, l. 1. pros.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Thus, the interests of society require, that contracts be fulfilled; and there is not a more material article either of natural or civil justice: But the omission of a trifling circumstance will often, by law, invalidate a contract, in foro humano, but not in foro conscientiae, as divines express themselves.

    An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

  • However, as his intention was truly upright, he ought to be excused in foro conscientiae; since so many arbitrary acts are daily committed by magistrates who have not this excuse to plead for themselves.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Pennaforte's Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio, another Dominican work, of similar date (before 1238), came to join it, and the Franciscan Astexanus d'Asti added his Summa de casibus conscientiae around the year 1317.

    CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968

  • _Medulla theologiae moralis, facili ac perspicua methodo resolvens casus conscientiae_ (1645).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Moreover, Charles was already, in foro conscientiae, if not in Frankish law, wedded to

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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