"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended. Only the public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or which are particularly perverted."St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6.
AUTHOR: Saint
Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225 – 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was
an Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and an immensely
influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known
as Doctor Angelicus ([the] Angelic Doctor), Doctor Communis, or Doctor
Universalis. "Aquinas" is not a surname, but is a Latin demonym for a
resident of Aquino, his place of birth. He was the foremost classical proponent
of natural theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western
thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived in
development or refutation of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics,
natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Thomas is held in the Catholic
Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. The works
for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra
Gentiles. As one of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered the Church's
greatest theologian and philosopher. Pope Benedict XV declared: "This
(Dominican) Order ... acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching
of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of
the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools."
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