Systematic Index

(which it does not suffice to have believed once 1215).

Confession is to be made at least once a year 437, 470, 901, 918, C906; it is advisable that it be done in Lent 901, 918, not necessarily to one's own pastor 492, C905, but it can be made to a religious 491; sacrilegious confession does not satisfy the precept of the Church 1114, C907.

INDULGENCES

XII l  Essence: They are not pious frauds of the faithful 758, but the remission of the temporal punishment (after the sin has been taken away) 740a, 1060, C911, to be paid before God 622, 677, 740a, 759, 1540, through the application of the treasury of the Church (that is, of the merits or satisfactions of Christ and of the saints 550 ff., 723a, 740a, 757, 1060, 1471, 1541, 2193, C911, made to the living by way of an absolution, for the dead as a suffrage 740a, C911, through the Roman Pontiff 551, 570k, 676, 723a, 729, 740a, 989, 998, 1471, C912, especially in a jubilee 467, 2193, or through a bishop for his subjects 678, C349 sec. 2, for reasonable causes 551, 676, 740a; they were in use from ancient times 989.

Effects are salutary and useful 622, 723a, 740a, 758, 760 ff., 989, 998, 1236, 1471, C911; they take away the temporal punishment due even to hidden sins 761 f.; they can be applied to the dead 723a, 740a, 1542, C911 f., whom they truly benefit 762.

The effect depends on the reception of baptism, freedom from excommunication (the state of grace 551, 676, 740a, C925), the fulfilling of the prescribed work 677, C925. The lists of indulgences are laudably established 1543; those revoked, however, have no value 1137.

Extreme Unction

XII m  Essence: It is a true sacrament instituted by Christ and promulgated by St. James 99, 315, 424, 451, 465, 669, 700, 907 ff., 926 ff., 2048; hence it is not a rite instituted by the Fathers 926, nor the same as the grace of curing 927.

The matter is the anointing with oil of the infirm blessed by a bishop 99, 424, 700, 908, 1628, C937, C945, not by a simple priest 1629, except with an apostolic faculty C945.

The form is either the longer ordinary form 700, 908, or the extraordinary and very short one 1996, C946 sec. 1.

The effect is the grace of the Holy Spirit 909, 927, remission of sins 315, 909, 927, spiritual health 695, 700, arousing of the confidence of divine mercy 909, alleviation of soul 909, 927, cleansing of the remains of sin 909, strength against the temptations of the devil 909; sometimes even the health of the body 315, 700, 909.

The minister is the priest 99, 700, 908, 910, 929, each and alone C938 sec. 1.

The subject is a man gravely ill 451, 700, 908, 910, C940, as often as he should fall back into danger of his life even after convalescence 910, C940 sec. 2; of itself it is presupposed that the person is in the state of grace 99, 315.

The necessity is not per se the means C944, but anyone contemning it sins mortally 669, 910, 928.

The rites customarily employed by the Church are to be observed 910, 928.

Orders

XII n  The priesthood is in general necessary and existed in every law 957, 2274, with its functions 2274, especially in revealed law 957, 2274. In the New Law the priest is "another Christ," whose person he acts 2275, 3000.

The essence: There are distinguished major and minor orders 150 ff., 454, 958, 962, C949, constituting an ecclesiastical hierarchy 42, 45, 89, 150 ff., 305, 360, 960, 962, 966, C109; the episcopacy, the priesthood, and diaconate are of divine institution 42, 305, 356, 958, 966, C108 sec. 3; the subdiaconate is a major order 45, 153, 305, 958, C949.