Summa TheologiaePart Suppl. — Supplement Question 071 — Question 71 — The Suffrages for the Dead Prooemium 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 only the prayers of the Church, the Sacrifice of the Altar, and alms profit the departed? Article 10 — Whether the indulgences of the Church profit even 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?
