A Topic of Moral Theology
Confession of Baptized Non-Catholics
Whether and how non-Catholics may be absolved.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
absolution of a non-catholic · can a protestant go to confession (ed.)
In the index as Abjuration · Absolution from CENSURES · CONFESSOR · Confession · Converts from heresy · Heretics · Heretics are held per se to the laws of the Church · Non-Catholics · Sacrament of Penance
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. IV, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. IV, Article VI. On Confession of Baptized Non-Catholics, n. 478 — We are speaking of baptized non-Catholics who are in good faith, or at least are not certainly in bad faith. Now: I. Outside danger of death, baptized non-Catholics cannot licitly be absolved. "It is forbidden," thus can… Read in context →
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. II, Part Third: On the Sacrame…, Tr. V, Diss. III, Ch. III, Art. II, § 1. On The Obligation Of The Confessor Toward Penitents Diverse From The State Of Soul, nn. ¶5, ¶1832, ¶1833 & ¶1834 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Office of the Confessor — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, On Chastity · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · The Roman Catechism · The Casuist and 1 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)