Part — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology
Dissertation I. On the Act of Doing Penance
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(St. Thomas, part 3, question 85; St. Alphonsus, Theologia moralis, book VI, nn. 433-442.)
We shall speak of the notion, necessity, and effects of the act of doing penance; namely, of the salutary act, with which alone we are concerned.