87. Some seek penance because they wish to
be at once restored to communion. These wish not so much to loose
themselves as to bind the priest, for they do not put off the guilt
from their own conscience, but lay it on that of the priest, to whom
the command is given: “Give not that which is holy to the
dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine;” S. Matt. vii. 6. that is to say, that partaking of the
holy Communion is not to be allowed to those polluted with
impurity.