| ### QUESTION 186 ### OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THE RELIGIOUS STATE PROPERLY CONSISTS ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider things pertaining to the religious state: which consideration will be fourfold. In the first place we shall consider those things in which the religious state consists chiefly; secondly, those things which are lawfully befitting to religious; thirdly, the different kinds of religious orders; fourthly, the entrance into the religious state. #### Under the first head there are ten points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the religious state is perfect? #### (2) Whether religious are bound to all the counsels? #### (3) Whether voluntary poverty is required for the religious state? #### (4) Whether continency is necessary? #### (5) Whether obedience is necessary? #### (6) Whether it is necessary that these should be the matter of a vow? #### (7) Of the sufficiency of these vows; #### (8) Of their comparison one with another; #### (9) Whether a religious sins mortally whenever he transgresses a statute of his rule? #### (10) Whether, other things being equal, a religious sins more grievously by the same kind of sin than a secular person? ####  |