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| Aquinas, Thomas |
The Question Box moderator sites Thomas's remarks in Summa Contra Omnes: "Oliva, quaecumque est, cibus est, et certe ieiunium frangit." It must be pointed out here that St. Thomas had no mystical foreknowledge of the martini [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 39].
St. Thomas Aquinas titled his magnum opus Summa Theologica, meaning a summary of study of God. "He also wrote Summa Contra Gentiles, the summary or gist [of the case] against the Gentiles or pagans," says Bowen.
Myers doesn't know what Thomas had against the Gentiles: "I never got that far. But by substituting 'Omnes' for 'Gentiles,' John changes the title to 'a summary against everybody,' which was pretty much the attitude of certain Pope, most notably Pius IX not to mention Pius X."
Bowen translates the rest: "'The olive, whatever it is, is food, and certainly breaks the fast.' I think we're pretty safe in assuming that the Angelic Doctor, as he is sometimes called in Catholic tradition, never wrote that sentence." |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas |
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