De la fréquente communion

…forth in Antoine Arnauld’s treatise De la fréquente communion (1643), in which he protested against the idea that the profligate could atone for continued sin by frequent communion without repentance, a thesis that thereafter remained almost unchallengeable until the French church felt the repercussion of the revocation of the Edict…

…Arnauld family—he published his treatise De la fréquente communion (1643; “On Frequent Communion”), defending controversial Jansenist views on the Eucharist and on penance. With his Théologie morale des Jésuites (1643; “Moral Theology of the Jesuits”), Arnauld launched his long polemical campaign against the Jesuits, in which Pierre Nicole, a young…