The "summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas V.3:4
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Wherefore he alone who exercises a ministry over Christ's true body is a minister of the sacraments, wherein grace is given ; and this belongs to a priest alone, who can consecrate the Eucharist. Therefore, since grace is given in the sacrament of Penance, none but a priest is the minister of the sacrament : and con- sequently sacramental confession which should be made to a minister of the Church, should be made to none but a priest. Reply Ohj. i. James speaks on the presupposition of the Divi...ne institutions: and since confession had already been prescribed by God to be made to a priest, in that He em- powered them, in the person of the apostles, to forgive sins, as related in John xx. 23, we must take the words of James as conveying an admonishment to confess to priests. Reply Ohj. 2. Baptism is a sacrament of greater necessity than Penance, as regards confession and absolution, because Q. 8. Art. i THE " SUMMA THEOLOGICA " 156 sometimes Baptism cannot be omitted without loss of eternal salvation, as in the case of children who have not come to the use of reason: whereas this cannot be said of confession and absolution, which regard none but adults, in whom contrition, together with the purpose of confessing and the desire of absolution, suffices to deliver them from everlasting death.
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