- Any member of the faithful whose health is seriously impaired by sickness
or old age.
- Anyone facing surgery for a serious condition.
- People who suffer from chronic illness.
- People who suffer from mental illness.
- Elderly people if they have become noticeably weakened even though no
serious illness is present.
- Sick children, if they have sufficient use of reason to be strengthened
by the sacrament.
- The sacrament may be repeated if the sick person recovers and then falls
ill again or if the person's condition worsens.
- The sacrament may be conferred on a sick person who has lost consciousness,
but who, as a Christian believer, at least implicitly asked for it when
he/she was in control of his/her faculties.
- When a person is in danger of death from sickness or old age.
Pastoral Care of the Sick, nn. 8-15 (cf. Canons 1004.1 and
844.3,4,5)
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