From the Supplement, compiled after Aquinas’s death from his Commentary on the Sentences and transcribed here from the 1917 to 1922 printings. About the Supplement.
Text: Summa Theologiae, Supplement to the Third Part (Supplementum Tertiae Partis), transcribed from Internet Archive scans, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. The Supplement, compiled after Aquinas’s death from his earlier Commentary on the Sentences, in the same English Dominican translation as the Gutenberg Parts. Transcribed by Bibliotheca Catholica from the OCR of four Internet Archive scans of the pre-1931 printings (Questions 1 to 33 from the 1917 Washbourne and Benziger volume, 34 to 68 from the 1922 volume, 69 to 86 from the 1921 volume, and 87 to 99 from the 1922 Benziger volume), with OCR errors corrected and doubtful passages marked, not rewritten. 99 questions and 446 articles. The two appendices printed after Question 99 are not included. Sources, SHA-256 of each OCR file, and the method are in the source record. Rights: Public domain (US)
The Supplement is not a Project Gutenberg text. It is Bibliotheca Catholica’s transcription of public-domain scans at the Internet Archive; obvious OCR errors were corrected, and passages marked “OCR uncertain” could not be confidently corrected, so check them against the linked scan page.
We must now consider the minister of confession, under which head there are seven points of inquiry: (i) Whether it is necessary to confess to a priest? (2) Whether it is ever lawful to confess to another than a priest? (3) Whether outside a case of necessity one who is not a priest can hear the confession of venial sins? (4) Whether it is necessary for a man to confess to his own priest? (5) Whether it is lawful for anyone to confess to another than his own priest, in virtue of a privilege or of the command of a superior? (6) Whether a penitent, in danger of death, can be absolved by any priest? (7) Whether the temporal punishment should be enjoined in proportion to the sin?