How censures are absolved

Absolution required; who can give it; reserved censures; danger of death; the conditions.

The works themselves ask 6 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

absolution from censure (ed.)

In the index as Absolution from censure · Recourse · Reservation · Censure · Forum · Penalty · Article of death · Confessor · Faculties · More Urgent Cases · Holy See · Ordinaries · Papal · Power of Jurisdiction as regards · Reserved Censures · Absolution · Accomplice · Censure as penalty · Censures · Cessation · Death · Excommunicates · Excommunication · Impotence

In the manuals

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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J.

Vol. II, Bk. X, Pt. I, Chapter II. Absolution of Censures, n. 1 — WHEN a censure has been incurred, it does not cease as a rule merely by lapse of time or on the correction and amendment of the delinquent. The delinquent must obtain absolution of the censure from one who is competent t… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Bk. IV, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. I, Chapter III. On Remission of Censure, nn. 864, 865, 866, 867 & 868 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Appendix. On Indulgences a…, Chapter II. On the Jubilee, n. 1076 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XIX, Ch. II, Article III. On the Subject of Censures, n. 950, Q. 9 — Question 9. If a confessor, ignorant of the reservation, absolves a penitent from censure and sin, is the absolution of the censure valid? Resp. The absolution of the censure is valid, provided it is not a censure ab hom… Read in context →

Vol. II, Tr. XIX, Ch. II, Article IV. On Absolution from Censures, nn. 951, 952, Q. 9, 952, Q. 10 & 952, Q. 11 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P. — 2 passages

Diss. IV, Chapter III — On absolution from censures, nn. II & VIII (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Absolution of Censures — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · The Casuist — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)