Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session XIV, On The Most Holy Sacrament Of Penance, Canon VI
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
On The Most Holy Sacrament Of Penance, Canon VI
ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
CANON VI.--If any one denieth, either that sacramental confession was instituted, or is necessary to salvation, of divine right; or saith, that the manner of confessing secretly to a priest alone, which the Church hath ever observed from the beginning, and doth observe, is alien from the institution and command of Christ, and is a human invention; let him be anathema.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session XIV (Hanover Historical Texts Project)