Talk:Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church

Content
This article is just a copy-and-paste from the main article for Anointing of the Sick. This has to be dealt with. Alekjds talk 01:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Taken care of! --mkow88 (talk) 00:46, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

The term "last rites" in the Catholic Church is not the same as the Anointing of the sick, which is done only for people that are hoped to recover. The last rites are given to the dying and the sacrament involved is Holy Communion. There needs to be two seperate articles, one on last rites, the other on the Annointing of the sick (Extreme Unction). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.253.199 (talk) 02:19, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The Anointing of the Sick, or Extreme Unction (the name has not been outlawed), is given to all people with a possibly mortal disease; including people that are hoped to recover, so much is true. However, it is one Sacrament, and this Sacrament is particularly (though not only) always included in the Last Rites that are given to the dying, which remains its most known, most traditionally associated, and arguably pastorally most important, use; hence, the inclusion is not quite unjustified. The only cases where Last Rites do not contain Anointing of the Sick are: i) children before the use of reason (because they have not sinned) and ii) offenders awaiting the death penalty (because their death is not due to an illness).--131.159.79.163 (talk) 17:22, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Catholic Specific
I am going to rewrite the opening paragraph to make this article better reflect Catholic teaching. My focus will be clarifying that the Catholic Church does not recognize Protestant or Anglican annointings as valid, which is a critical to the Catholic understanding of the sacrament.Mkow88 (talk) 05:15, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Forgiveness of Sins
Catholics believe that anointing of the sick does in fact forgive sin. Please don't delete this important fact! --Mkow88 (talk) 01:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Last Rites
Its my belief that a description of the order of the "last rites" is important to the discussion of the sacrament of anointing of the sick, as they are so closely associated with each other. If you have different thoughts, please share! But for now I think it should stay.

Clean Up
I did a lot of work to clean up this page to make it Catholic specific. There may be some minor rough spots. If so, please fix. Any other major revisions, please discus! Thanks! --Mkow88 (talk) 04:02, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks good
All the recent edits on this page look good - Good Job! (by the way, I used to edit this page under the username user:mkow88 so there no confusion) --Zfish118 (talk) 03:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

sugg. for lead - blessed oil, hands
These points are mentioned later but it seems to me that their omission in the lead could cause some confusion. Namely, the priest uses oil which has been blessed by the bishop, and that anointing always involves forehead and hands - other parts of the body are optional, but not hands. I mention it here in case anyone has an objection. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 21:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)