Bestiality, form of impurity, 2534 d.
Betrothal, duties of persons engaged to marry, 2627; duties imposed by engagement to marry, 2628; courtship, 2628; duty to manifest defects, 2628 b; fidelity during the engagement, 2628 c; right to manifest affection, 2628 c; formal promise to marry imposes duty of marriage within a reasonable time, 2628 d; breaking of engagement, 2628 d; duty of restitution in breach of promise, 2628 d; signs of affection between engaged persons, 2629.
Bills, unjust refusal to pay, 1794.
Birth-Control, see Matrimony, Sacrament of.
Bishop, interpreter of diocesan laws, 486; special duties, 2607 a.
Blackstone, on purely penal character of civil laws, 570 b.
Blasphemy, Sin of, 887 sqq.; heretical and non-heretical, 889; interpreting cases of doubtful blasphemy, 894; sinfulness of blasphemy, 895; the greatest sin against faith, 895 b; species of blasphemy, 897; circumstances which aggravate, 897 d; blasphemies against the Three Divine Persons, 898; despair and presumption as blasphemy, 899 a; sin against Holy Ghost, 900; state of malicious sin, 901; remedies against blasphemy, 902; absolution, 903.
Blessed Sacrament, Confraternities of, 955 a.
Bluntness, vice opposite to modesty, 2566 b.
Bonaventure, Saint, on obligation of judge when evidence is contrary to his personal knowledge, 1951 c.