Question 85 — Penance as a Virtue

We must now consider penance as a virtue, under which head there are six points of inquiry:

(1) Whether penance is a virtue?

• (2) Whether it is a special virtue?
• (3) To what species of virtue does it belong?
• (4) Of its subject;
• (5) Of its cause;
• (6) Of its relation to the other virtues.