Question 19 — The Ministers and the Use of the Keys

We must now consider the ministers and the use of the keys.

Under this head there are six points of inquiry:

(1) Whether the priest of the law had the keys?

• (2) Whether Christ had the keys?
• (3) Whether priests alone have the keys?
• (4) Whether holy men who are not priests have the use of the keys?
• (5) Whether wicked priests have the effective use of the keys?
• (6) Whether those who are schismatics, heretics, excommunicate, suspended or degraded, have the use of the keys?