Doctor Communis
"It is evident that not all are able to labour at learning and for that reason Christ has given as short law. Everyone can know this law and no one may be excused from observing it because of ignorance. This is the law of divine love. As Scripture says, 'The Lord will quickly execute sentence upon the earth.'
This law should be the standard for all human actions. In the case of products of human manufacture, each product is considered right and good when it conforms to a standard. So also each human act is considered right and virtuous when it conforms to the standard of divine love; but when a human act does not conform to the standard of love, then it is not right, nor good, nor perfect".
- St Thomas Aquinas OP, whose feast is on 28 January.
Sometimes called the 'Common Doctor' because his teaching forms the basis of Catholic theology common to all, St Thomas was a Dominican friar of the 13th century. This fresco by Filippino Lippi of 'St Thomas confounding the Heretics' is in the Carafa chapel in the Dominican church of Sta Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.
Orignal From: Doctor Communis
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