The Resolver of Doubts

consecrate or confect this sacrament.
Solution: Method: It is necessary for the one performing it to have the capacity of expression or speech; if he has lost this after receiving orders, he cannot confect, because he cannot speak the words of consecration and the other things that must be brought forth or said.

II Whether one who has some other defect in his body can celebrate mass.

Solution: If he has some defect that renders him unable or powerless to say or do those things required for a proper celebration—for instance, if he lacks sight, or the fingers with which the host must be handled, elevated, or broken—or if he has some other notable defect that, according to the judgment of his ordinary prelate, would cause scandal if he were to celebrate, he cannot celebrate, even though he might be able to exercise other things that belong to the priestly order.

III Whether a leper can celebrate mass.

Solution: If he has not become incapacitated by the corrosion of his members, he can celebrate in private. However, in the presence of other lepers, he can even celebrate in public.

Doubt

IV Whether one suffering from the falling sickness can celebrate.

Solution: If he falls frequently, or emits foam or incoherent speech, he cannot. But if he falls rarely and does not emit foam, etc., he can, provided he has another priest as a helper.

V Whether it is permitted for one suffering from an issue of blood or semen to celebrate.

Solution: It is permitted, unless some other impediment stands in the way. If anyone suffers from such an issue of blood that he immediately discharges through the bowels what he has taken into his stomach, he ought not to celebrate.

VI Whether one polluted by nocturnal pollution can licitly celebrate.

Solution: Nocturnal pollution, although considered in itself is not a sin because it happens without the use of free will, yet by reason of its cause it sometimes has a sin annexed to it, of which it is the effect or sign. Therefore, one must first consider the cause of the nocturnal pollution. Which...