| ### 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? |