"-- "Why again ?"--"To submit one's self to the power of the Keys and to the judgment of the priests who have the power to punish and remit sins."] [Footnote 5336: Bossuet, ibid., Catechisme de Meaux, VI., 140-142.] [Footnote 5337: "Manreze du pretre," by Father Caussette, I., 37.
"Do you see that young man of twenty-five who will soon traverse the sanctuary to find the sinners awaiting him?
It is the God of this earth who sanctifies him...

Were Jesus Christ to descend into the confessional he would say, Ego te absolvo.

He is going to say with the same authority, Ego te absolvo.

Now this is an act of the supreme power; it is greater, says Saint Augustin, than the creation of heaven and earth."-- T.

W.Allies, "Journal d'un voyage en France," 1845, p.97.
"Confession is the chain which binds all Christian life."] [Footnote 5338: "Manreze du pretre," I., 36.