QUESTION 71

OF THE SUFFRAGES FOR THE DEAD



Index

Prologue

ARTICLE 1. Whether the suffrages of one person can profit others?

ARTICLE 2. Whether the dead can be assisted by the works of the living?

ARTICLE 3. Whether suffrages performed by sinners profit the dead?

ARTICLE 4. Whether suffrages offered by the living for the dead profit those who offer them?

ARTICLE 5. Whether suffrages profit those who are in hell?

ARTICLE 6. Whether suffrages profit those who are in purgatory?

ARTICLE 7. Whether suffrages avail the children who are in limbo?

ARTICLE 8. Whether suffrages profit the saints in heaven?

ARTICLE 9. Whether the prayers of the Church, the sacrifice of the altar and alms profit the departed?

ARTICLE 10. Whether the indulgences of the Church profit the dead?

ARTICLE 11. Whether the burial service profits the dead?

ARTICLE 12. Whether suffrages offered for one deceased person profit the person for whom they are offered more than others?

ARTICLE 13. Whether suffrages offered for several are of as much value to each one as if they had been offered for each in particular?

ARTICLE 14. Whether general suffrages avail those for whom special suffrages are not offered, as much as special suffrages avail those for whom they are offered in addition to general suffrages?