QUESTION 8

OF THE MINISTER OF CONFESSION



Index

Prologue

ARTICLE 1. Whether it is necessary to confess to a priest?

ARTICLE 2. Whether it is ever lawful to confess to another than a priest?

ARTICLE 3. Whether, outside a case of necessity, anyone who is not a priest may hear the confession of venial sins?

ARTICLE 4. Whether it is necessary for one to confess to one's own priest?

ARTICLE 5. Whether it is lawful for anyone to confess to another than his own priest, in virtue of a privilege or a command given by a superior?

ARTICLE 6. Whether a penitent, at the point of death, can be absolved by any priest?

ARTICLE 7. Whether the temporal punishment is imposed according to the degree of the fault?