Roman Catholicism's Deadly Intolerance

The theological teachings of Thomas Aquinas were made mandatory by Pope Leo XIII, in his August 4th 1879 Encyclical. Thomas Aquinas' teachings are still taught today in Catholic high-schools, colleges, and seminaries.

Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica, under an article titled, "Whether Heretics Ought To Be Tolerated?", wrote, and I quote:

"With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side, the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death. For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life. Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authorities, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."

"On the part of the Church, however, there is mercy that looks to the conversion of the wanderer, wherefore she condemns not once, but after the first and second admonition, as the Apostle directs: after that, if he is yet stubborn, the Church no longer hoping for his conversion, looks to the salvation of others, by excommunicating him and separating him from the church, , and furthermore delivers him to the secular tribunal to be exterminated thereby from the world by death."
(Summa Theologica, Volume 3, Part 2, Question 11, 3rd Article)

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