Donatist

After all, Augustine pointed out, it’s impossible to know the state of a person’s soul, so under the Donatist framework, it’s difficult to know which priests are really capable of offering valid sacraments.

One feature common to them all was a revival of the Donatist tenet that the sacraments are polluted in polluted hands, so that a priest living in mortal sin is incapable of administering them.

Within churches once Catholic, Donatist bishops at that time held high festival, in the midst of solemn pomp, with mystic rite and sacred song.

Honorius was equally severe on heretics, such as the Donatists and Manichaeans.

"Compel them to come in," as St Augustine quoted, fatefully, with reference to the schismatic Donatists.