Thomas AI-quinas

ST Suppl., q. 38

Of Those Who Confer This Sacrament

Supplement — compiled posthumously from Aquinas's early Sentences commentary

We must now consider those who confer this sacrament. Under this head there are two points of inquiry:

(1) Whether a bishop alone can confer this sacrament?

(2) Whether a heretic or any other person cut off from the Church can confer this sacrament?

Articles

  1. a. 1Whether a bishop alone confers the sacrament of Order?
  2. a. 2Whether heretics and those who are cut off from the Church can confer Orders? [*Cf. TP, Q[64], AA[5],9]

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ST Suppl., q. 38 — Of Those Who Confer This Sacrament - Thomas AI-quinas