Question 88 — The Return of Sins Which Have Been Taken Away by Penance

We must now consider the return of sins which have been taken away by penance: under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether sins which have been taken away by penance return simply through a subsequent sin?

• (2) Whether more specially as regards certain sins they return, in a way, on account of ingratitude?
• (3) Whether the debt of punishment remains the same for sins thus returned?
• (4) Whether this ingratitude, on account of which sins return, is a special sin?