Note 686 — Chapter I · THE ESSENTIAL DUTIES OF THE CONFESSOR IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS OFFICE; OR, THE CONFESSOR CONSIDERED IN HIS OFFICE OF JUDGE
Richard F. (Richard Frederick) Clarke translation
See § 50, V. The confessor, therefore, must not absolve a penitent who will not fulfill an important duty incumbent upon him, who does not heartily repent of his past sins, and has not a firm purpose to sin no more in future. Cf. Bucceroni, l. c § 4, n. 15; Leo XII, Encycl. Charitate Christi, Kal. Jan. 1826.