Chapter II: Of the Subject of Extreme Unction

§ 1. Extreme unction cannot be given except to a faithful person who, after having attained the use of reason, is in danger of death because of infirmity or old age.

§ 2. In the same infirmity this sacrament cannot be repeated, unless the sick person after receiving the anointing recovered and fell into another danger of life.

When it is doubted whether the sick person has attained the use of reason, whether he is in fact in danger of death, or whether he is dead, this sacrament is to be ministered under condition.

This sacrament is not to be conferred on those who, impenitent, contumaciously persevere in manifest mortal sin; but if this is doubtful, it is to be conferred under condition.

Nevertheless it is to be given absolutely to sick persons who, when they were in possession of their mind, at least implicitly asked for it or would probably have asked for it, even if afterward they have lost sensation or the use of reason.

Although this sacrament of itself is not of the necessity of means for salvation, nevertheless it is lawful for no one to neglect it; and care must be taken with every zeal and diligence that the sick receive it while they are fully in possession of themselves.