Views During the Third Period (750-1517 A.D.) (53): The Seven Sacraments: Penance

CANON VI. If any one denieth, either that sacramental confession was instituted, or is necessary to salvation, of divine right; or saith, that the manner of confessing secretly to a priest alone, which the Church hath ever observed from the beginning, and doth observe, is alien from the institution and command of Christ, and is a human invention: let him be anathema. CANON VI. If any one denieth, either that sacramental confession was instituted, or is necessary to salvation, of divine...