VII. The Acts of the Penitent

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

When Christ’s faithful strive to confess all the sins that they can
remember, they undoubtedly place all of them before the divine mercy for
pardon. But those who fail to do so and knowingly withhold some, place nothing
before the divine goodness for remission through the mediation of the priest,
“for if the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor,
the medicine cannot heal what it does not know.”⁵⁵

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER TWO THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
  - Article 4 THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
    - VII. The Acts of the Penitent

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team