Note 935 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF PENITENTS IN DIFFERENT SPIRITUAL CONDITIONS (continued 2)

Thus Lehmkuhl. Aertnys, however, does not assent to this teaching, quia voluntas conditionalis confitendi non est reapse confessio, atque adeo prorsus deesse videtur materia. Theol. Mor. Lib. VI. n. 196, Q. 4, 5. Lehmkuhl rejects the opinion that a dying person in this state must be asked whether he would confess and receive absolution; for here the question is not what the man would wish, but what he wishes; at most it might be said of this velleity that it includes a certain will and actual accusation. Lehmkuhl, l. c. n. 515.