| ### QUESTION 71 ### OF THE SUFFRAGES FOR THE DEAD ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the suffrages for the dead. Under this head there are fourteen points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether suffrages performed by one person can profit others? #### (2) Whether the dead can be assisted by the works of the living? #### (3) Whether the suffrages of sinners profit the dead? #### (4) Whether suffrages for the dead profit those who perform them? #### (5) Whether suffrages profit those who are in hell? #### (6) Whether they profit those who are in purgatory? #### (7) Whether they avail the children in limbo? #### (8) Whether in any way they profit those who are heaven? #### (9) Whether the prayer of the Church, the Sacrament of the altar, and almsgiving profit the departed? #### (10) Whether indulgences granted by the Church profit them? #### (11) Whether the burial service profits the departed? #### (12) Whether suffrages for one dead person profit that person more than others? #### (13) Whether suffrages for many avail each one as much as if they were offered for each individual? #### (14) Whether general suffrages avail those for whom special suffrages are not offered, as much as special and general suffrages together avail those for whom they are offered? ####  |