reserved sin

As to reserved sins, he need not, as a general rule, present himself again after convalescence.

If a penitent be in danger of death, any priest can absolve him, both from reserved censures and reserved sins.

Butler issued a declaration, Statuta synodalia pro dioecesi Corcagiensi (1768), that involvement in the Whiteboys was a reserved sin.

If a sin be reserved in one diocese, and a penitent, without the intention of evading the law, confess to a priest in another diocese where the sin is not reserved, the latter may absolve the reserved sin.