This is RCT number 75 Rules for Confession.

RCT stands for the Roman Catechism of Trent.

This is Father David Nix, also known as Padre Peregrino.

Today we are on pages 310 to 312.

This is the sacraments episode number 27.

God grant you his peace.

In nomi pachi, Sifili, it's bidi to Santi, amen. O heavenly king, comforter, Spirit of truth, who are everywhere present, and fill us to all things, treasury of good things and giver of life, come and dwell in us and cleanse us of all impurity and save our souls, O good one.

Inomipatri Sifidi, it speedy, Tussanti, amen.

Okay, and then the only infallible catechism in the history of 2,000 years, continues on this great sacrament of penance, also known as confession.

We read today about the usual minister.

It reads, the minister of the sacrament of penance.

We now come to treat of the minister of the sacrament that the minister of the sacrament of

penance must be a priest possessing ordinary or delegated jurisdiction the laws of the church

sufficiently declare. Whoever discharges this sacred function must be invested

not only with the power of orders but also with that of jurisdiction. Of this ministry, we have

an illustrious proof in these words of our Lord recorded by St. John. Whose sins you shall

forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

Words addressed not to all, but to the apostles only to whom in this function of the ministry, priests succeed.

Okay, me for the first time today.

So you have either ordinary or delegated jurisdiction.

So an example of someone with ordinary jurisdiction would be the ordinary. That is the bishop of a diocese can always hear

confessions. Delegated jurisdiction includes any of his priests and those normally fall into two types

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