Is Anointing of the Sick reserved to Catholics?

[sinner]

After reading the Catechism on the sacrament,with its numerous references to “the Christian” and “the faithful” who receive it, I heard a priest say that he anointed a “parishioner” who is known by many in the parish NOT to be Catholic. Hence, my question.
I really couldn’t figure it out by reading the Catechism.

 

[Aramis]

After reading the Catechism on the sacrament,with its numerous references to “the Christian” and “the faithful” who receive it, I heard a priest say that he anointed a “parishioner” who is known by many in the parish NOT to be Catholic. Hence, my question.
I really couldn’t figure it out by reading the Catechism.

This sacrament is, like all catholic sacraments, open to the Orthodox, the PNCC, the Utrech Old Catholics, the Assyrians, etc. if they ask of their own.

It could, in theory, be validly administered to any of the faithful even if not formally catholic but already baptized…

See canon law:
CIC:

CHAPTER III.

THOSE ON WHOM THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK IS TO BE CONFERRED

Can. 1004 §1. The anointing of the sick can be administered to a member of the faithful who, having reached the use of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age.

§2. This sacrament can be repeated if the sick person, having recovered, again becomes gravely ill or if the condition becomes more grave during the same illness.

Can. 1005 This sacrament is to be administered in a case of doubt whether the sick person has attained the use of reason, is dangerously ill, or is dead.

Can. 1006 This sacrament is to be conferred on the sick who at least implicitly requested it when they were in control of their faculties.

Can. 1007 The anointing of the sick is not to be conferred upon those who persevere obstinately in manifest grave sin.

vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3M.HTM

and
CIC:

Can. 204 §1. The Christian faithful are those who, inasmuch as they have been incorporated in Christ through baptism, have been constituted as the people of God. For this reason, made sharers in their own way in Christ’s priestly, prophetic, and royal function, they are called to exercise the mission which God has entrusted to the Church to fulfill in the world, in accord with the condition proper to each.

§2. This Church, constituted and organized in this world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church governed by the successor of Peter and the bishops in communion with him.

[vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PT.HTM

Can. 205 Those baptized are fully in the communion of the Catholic Church on this earth who are joined with Christ in its visible structure by the bonds of the profession of faith, the sacraments, and ecclesiastical governance.](http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PT.HTM)

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

After reading the Catechism on the sacrament,with its numerous references to “the Christian” and “the faithful” who receive it, I heard a priest say that he anointed a “parishioner” who is known by many in the parish NOT to be Catholic. Hence, my question.
I really couldn’t figure it out by reading the Catechism.

In the judgement of the priest or Bishop depending on circumstances any Baptized person could receive the Sacrament of Anointing in certain specific circumstances. There can also be an “anointing” of the sick with a simple blessed oil, that is NOT the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. You would need to know many more details.