The Young St. Thomas on Tolerating Heretics


In keeping with the gradual amassing of integralist writings on this website, we are pleased to offer today a translation, courtesy of The Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, of a fine article in St. Thomas’s Scriptum super Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Bk. 3, dist. 13, qu. 2, art. 3: “Whether heretics should be tolerated.” Readers familiar with his treatment of this question in the Summa (II-II, q. 10, a. 8, ad 1; q. 11, a. 3) will see many of the same points made, but here we have them fresh from the Master of the Sacred Page writing his doctoral dissertation.  – Peter Kwasniewski

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Pius VI: Quare Lacrymae

Introductory Note

One of the aims of The Josias is to translate integralist texts into English. From the commentaries and disputations of the great Baroque scholastics, to the writings of 20th century continental traditionalists, to the teachings of the popes before Leo XIII— many of the most important integralist writings are not yet available to anglophone readers. We begin our series with Quare Lacrymae, a speech of Pope Pius VI’s, which arguably begins the “modern” phase of Catholic social teaching.

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