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The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, Volume 4 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pohle’s final volume on the sacraments covers extreme unction, holy orders, matrimony. He defends the necessity of each sacrament, defines the role of ministers, and shows how these sacraments—like all sacraments—perform a vital role in administering grace.

matters; or that it is only a sort of rite for choosing ministers of the word of God and of the Sacraments; let him be anathema.”2 This canon does not decide the question whether and to what extent the different orders participate in the sacramentality of Holy Orders, but merely declares in general terms that the rite of ordination is a true Sacrament. This teaching can easily be demonstrated from Scripture and Tradition. —Though it seems that Christ called His Apostles
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