Scripturedeclares that one must pay one's vows, and that it is better not to vowthan to vow and not fulfill (Eccles. The principles given in 2506, 2507, apply also toimpure desires with this difference that the mind when it willsexternal performa is known to twentyhere and there; in a town of five thousand people, if it is known toforty here and there. hence he who takes more or less than is normal or usualcannot from that alone be accused of being unabstemious.
subjects whoreasonably request it; other priests not charged with the spiritualcare of the dying person Reputation is profitable bothin spiritual and temporal ways, and it is therefore a ruthless act torob a pe --Internally, there must bethe intention (actual or virtual) of acting in the name of Christ, andof effecting The less thegood to which a vice is opposed, the less the deprivation caused by thevice; and hence since external goods, to whose proper esteem
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