Note 853 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF PENITENTS IN DIFFERENT SPIRITUAL CONDITIONS

“If, considering the present corruption of our society and the manner in which dancing entertainments are conducted, a priest publicly protests against them, he may be perfectly justified. But the place in which he can exercise his influence against this evil is the confessional. Here he can positively forbid dancing to the young man or girl for whom it is an occasio proxima of sin, whether the sin consists in bad thoughts and desires, or in external acts, or he will proceed in accordance with the principles laid down above (concerning the occasio necessaria).” Renninger-Göpfert, Pastoral Theology, Vol. I. Part I. § 90, p. 265.