CCC 1464

Priests must encourage the faithful to come to the sacrament of Penance and must make themselves available to celebrate this sacrament each time Christians reasonably ask for it.⁷⁰ Cf. CIC, can. 486; CCEOCCEO — Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches), can. 735; PO 13.