PENANCE 177 



Readings.— St. Thomas, Summa Theologica, Supplementum, qu. 

 11, art. 1-5.— St. Alphonsus, Theologia M oralis, 1. V, n. 633-661. 

 — F. X. Linsenmann, Lehrbuch der Moraltheologie, pp. 220 sqq. — 

 A. Lehmkuhl, S.J., Casus Conscientiae, Vol. II, 3rd ed., Freiburg 

 1907, n. 530-580.— Th. Slater, S.J., A Manual of Moral Theology, 

 Vol. II, pp. 228 sqq.— Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, 9th 

 ed. (by T. B. Scannell), London 1917, pp. 766 sq — R. S. Nolan 

 in the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIII, pp. 649-665.— Bedeley, 

 Privilege of Religious Confession in English Courts of Justice, 

 London 1865.— Hopwood, The Law of Confession in Criminal 

 Cases, London 1871 — Sabetti-Barrett, S.J., Compendium Theolo- 

 giae Moralis, pp. 757 sqq. — F. P. Kenrick, Theologia Moralis, Vol. 

 II, pp. 197 sqq. — Ad. Tanquerey, S.S., Synopsis Theologiae 

 Moralis et Pastoralis, Vol. I, 2nd ed., Tournai 1904, pp. 214 sqq. 

 — H. Noldin, S.J., Summa Theologiae Moralis, Vol. Ill, nth ed., 

 pp. 491 sqq., Innsbruck 1914. 



ARTICLE 6 



SACRAMENTAL ABSOLUTION 



The priest, sitting as a judge in the tribunal of 

 Penance, is not free to loose or bind at pleasure. 

 He is the servant of Christ and dispenser of the 

 mysteries of God, and as such in duty bound, on 

 the one hand to uphold the dignity of the Sacra- 

 ment, and, on the other, to safeguard the spirit- 



misimus, misericordissimae suae nee directe neque indirecte (excepto 



pietatis venia penitus abstergit atque casu necessariae consultationis iuxta 



omnino obliviscitur. Sacerdotes sibi regulas a probatis auctoribus traditas 



subditos sedulo edoceri curent [Ordir proponendae) in suis seu publicis seu 



narii], ne quid unquam, occasione privatis sermonibus attingere aude- 



praesertim sacrarum missionum et ant; eosque in experiments pro 



exercitiorum spiritualium ad confes- eorum habilitatione ad confessiones 



sionis sacramentalis materiam perti- excipiendas hac super re peculiariter 



nens, quavis sub forma et quovis examinari iubeant." Ferreres, Comp. 



sub praetextu, ne obiter quidem et Theol. Mor., Vol. II, n. 771 sq. 



