| ### QUESTION 36 ### OF THE QUALITIES REQUIRED OF THOSE WHO RECEIVE THIS SACRAMENT ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must next consider the qualities required of those who receive the sacrament of Order. Under this head there are five points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether goodness of life is required of those who receive this sacrament? #### (2) Whether the knowledge of the whole of Sacred Writ is required? #### (3) Whether the degree of Orders is obtained by mere merit of life? #### (4) Whether he who raises the unworthy to Orders sins? #### (5) Whether one who is in sin can without committing a sin exercise the Order he has received? ####  |