Endnotes

1. See 2 Cor 5:18ff.; Col 1:20.
2. See Jn 8:34-36.
3. See 1 Pt 2:9.
4. See Lk 15.
5. Lk 5:20 and 27-32, 7:48.
6. See Mt 9:2-8.
7. See Rom 4:25.
8. See RM, Eucharistic Prayer III.
9. See Mt 26:28.
10. See Jn 20:19-23.
11. See Lk 24:47.
12. See Acts 3:19 and 26, 17:30.
13. See Rom 6:4 ?10.
14. See RM, Eucharistic Prayer III.
15. See RM, Eucharistic Prayer II.
16. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramento Paenitentiae cap. 1: Denz-Schon 1668 and 1670; can. 1: Denz-Schon 1701.
17. Ambrose, Ep. 41, 12: PL 16,1116.
18. See Rv 19:7.
19. See Eph 1:22-23. LG no. 7: AAS 57 (1965) 9-11; ConstDecrDecl 100-102.
20. LG no. 8: AAS 57 (1965) 12; ConstDecrDecl 106.
21. See 1 Pt 4:13.
22. See I Pt 4:8.
23. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramento Paenitentiae: Denz-Schon 1638, 1740, 1743. SCR, Instr. EuchMyst, 25 May 1967, no. 35; GIRM, nos. 29, 30, 56 a, b, g.
24. LG no. 11.
25. Paul VI, Ap. Const. Paenitemini, 17 Feb, 1966: AAS 58 (1966) 179. See also LG no. 11.
26. See Gal 2:20; Eph 5:25.
27. See Ti 3:6.
28. Paul VI, Ap. Const. Indulgentiarum doctrina, I Jan. 1967, no. 4. See also Pius XII, Encycl. Mystici Corporis, 29 June 1943: AAS 35 (1943) 213.
29. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramento Paenitentiae, cap. 3: Denz-Schon 1673-75 (the ed. typica erroneously cites cap. 11).
30. Ibid., cap. 4: Denz-Schon 1676.
31. Paul VI, Ap. Const. Paenitemini, 17 Feb. 1966: AAS.58 (1966) 179.
32. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramanto Paenitentiae cap. 5: Denz-Schon 1679.
33. See ibid. cap. 8: Denz-Schon 1690-92. Paul V1, Ap. Const. Indulgentiarum doctrina, nos. 2-3.
34. See Ti 3:4-5.
35. See Lk 15:7, 10 and 32.
36. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramento Paenilentiae can. 7-8: Denz-Schbn 1707-08.
37. See 2 Cor 4:10.
38. See Gal 4:31.
39. See Mt 18:18; Jn 20:23.
40. See LG no. 26.
41. See Phil 1:9-10.
42. See SCDF, Pastoral Norms for General Absolution, 16 June 1972, Norm XII.
43. See SC art. 7.
44. See SCR, Instr. EuchMyst, 25 May 1967, no. 35.
45. SCDF, Pastoral Norms for General Absolution, 16 June 1972, Norm III.
46. Ibid. Norm V.
47. Ibid. Norms VI and XI.
48. Ibid. Norms VII and VIII.
49. See ibid. Norm VI.
50. See SCR, Instr. Inter0ec, 26 Sept. 1964, nos. 37-39.
51. See SCDF, Pastoral Norms for General Absolution, Norm X.
52. Ibid.
53. See Council of Trent, sess. 14, De sacramento Paenitentiae cap. 5: Denz-Schon 1677.
54. See LG no. 26.
55. See SCDF, Pastoral Norms for General Absolution, Norm V.