| ### QUESTION 88 ### OF VOWS ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider vows, whereby something is promised to God. Under this head there are twelve points of inquiry: #### (1) What is a vow? #### (2) What is the matter of a vow? #### (3) Of the obligation of vows; #### (4) Of the use of taking vows; #### (5) Of what virtue is it an act? #### (6) Whether it is more meritorious to do a thing from a vow, than without a vow? #### (7) Of the solemnizing of a vow; #### (8) Whether those who are under another's power can take vows? #### (9) Whether children may be bound by vow to enter religion? #### (10) Whether a vow is subject to dispensation or commutation? #### (11) Whether a dispensation can be granted in a solemn vow of continence? #### (12) Whether the authority of a superior is required in a dispensation from a vow? ####  |