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in order that the competent superior mayprovide, then any confessor can, in the sacramental forum, absolve fromthese The Positive Duties of Clerics. It seems that one who, after aconfession of venial sins at Easter, falls into grave sin is not boundfrom this precept to confess again before the end of the year. Certainly the Holy See cannot by itself, with adequate care and in duetime, prohibit the numberless writings against f

Degrees of the Sin of Drunkenness. See also Passions, concupiscible. But in a civil case, in which inquiryis made about juridical faults, the witness should testify even to theexistence of delinquencies in which there was no element of theologicalfault. wn to the priest, unless it be _ab homine_or most specially reserved to the Holy See (Canon 2247, n.