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Article IV: On The Limitation Of Jurisdiction As Regards Sins

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  1. Jurisdiction is restricted either generally, so that Superiors alone, with all inferiors excluded, can absolve; or specially, so that the power of absolving is taken away from only one, but not from the other confessors. Sins of the former kind are very many, and are called RESERVED CASES; of the other kind there is only one sin, namely a base sin committed with the very ACCOMPLICE to be absolved. Hence there is a twofold paragraph: 1. On reserved cases. 2. On the forbidden absolution of an accomplice.

The SacramentsPenance and ConfessionJurisdiction and Reserved CasesThe Restriction of JurisdictionThe Ministration of the Sacrament of Penance

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