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Theory and practice of the confessional

Note 1052 — Chapter III · PENITENTS IN EXTREME DANGER

Richard F. (Richard Frederick) Clarke translation

“Moraliter fieri nequit in hac nostra natura composita, ut dolor et desiderium, se subjiciendi clavibus Ecclesiæ, quæ interne habentur, nullo actu sensibili se manifestent, licet ab aliis forte non animadvertatur, vel quia præsentes non sunt vel quia signa non valent distinguere. Hinc sicut in moribundo sensibus destituto potest præsumi pœnitentia, ita pari omnino jure præsumitur pœnitentia manifestata in ordine ad se subjiciendum clavibus.”—Franzelin, De Sacr. in genere. Romæ, 1868, p. 39.

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