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with the sovereignty of God, who is the Master of life 

 and death and has created man as His own image and 

 property, 1 and because it undermines the foundation 

 of society and brings upon its victim the greatest temporal 

 misfortune and sometimes even causes his eternal dam- 

 nation. Justly, therefore, is cold-blooded murder pun- 

 ished by death (capital punishment). 



Murder is often committed for petty motives, such as 

 revenge, jealousy, or avarice. The gravity of this crime 

 may be judged by the fact that murderers often become 

 their own accusers. 



b) Sodomy is the sin for which Sodom and 

 Gomorrah were destroyed by God. The term in- 

 cludes all sins of unnatural lust, particularly 

 those committed between persons of the same sex, 

 and all practices aiming at the prevention of con- 

 ception. 2 Sodomy is closely related to murder. 

 Both crimes are directed against the preservation 

 of the human race, and, moreover, cruelty and 

 lust, heartlessness and debauchery, bloodthirst 

 and unchastity (Sadism, Masochism) usually go 

 hand in hand. 3 



Holy Scripture condemns the conduct of Onan, not 



l Gen. I, 26 sq.; IX, 6; Deut. (crudelitas activa) and Masochism 



XXXII, 39. (crudelitas passiva) cfr. Familler, 



2Cfr. Gen. XIX, 5; XXXVIII, Pastoralpsychiatrie, Freiburg 1898, 



9; Lev. XVIII, 22; XX, 13; pp. 157 sq.; Krafft-Fbing, Psychofa- 



Judges XIX, 22 sqq.; Rom. I, 26 tliia Sexualis, 13th ed., pp. 158 sqq.; 



sq. ; 1 Tim. I, 10. A. Eulenlmrg, Sadismus und Maso- 



3 Cfr. Ez. XVI, 49; Am. II, 7. — cliismus. Wiesbaden 1902; O'Malley 



H. Rau, Die Grausamkeit tnit be- and Walsh, Essays in Pastoral Medi- 



sonderer Besugnahme auf sexucllc cine. New York 1906, pp. 338 sq. — 



Faktoren, Berlin 1003. — On Sadism F. a Barbens, Intr. Pathol, ad Stud. 



Thcol. Mor., pp. 255 sqq. 



