Thomas Aquinas' Summa

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I believe that St. Thomas Aquinas in his summa wrote that if one approves of the sin of another, that person has sinned as well. It has been quite a while since I read the summa and I don’t remember where he wrote it. Can anyone direct me to a passage in the summa?

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Annie
 
OF CONSENT, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL IN REGARD TO THE MEANS
Choice includes something that consent has not, namely, a certain relation to something to which something else is preferred: and therefore after consent there still remains a choice. For it may happen that by aid of counsel several means have been found conducive to the end, and through each of these meeting with approval, consent has been given to each: but after approving of many, we have given our preference to one by choosing it. But if only one meets with approval, then consent and choice do not differ in reality, but only in our way of looking at them; so that we call it consent, according as we approve of doing that thing; but choice according as we prefer it to those that do not meet with our approval.
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Is this the part you mean? That the consent of something is it’s preferance, and that a preferance for sin is sin?
 
Annie39 said:
I believe that St. Thomas Aquinas in his summa wrote that if one approves of the sin of another, that person has sinned as well. It has been quite a while since I read the summa and I don’t remember where he wrote it. Can anyone direct me to a passage in the summa?

Thanks,
Annie
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I don’t know of hand where in the summa that is but it is also in the penny catechism under the section on ways in which we participate in the sins of another.
 
JohnDamian said:
OF CONSENT, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL IN REGARD TO THE MEANS

Is this the part you mean? That the consent of something is it’s preferance, and that a preferance for sin is sin?
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No it isn’t but thank you for trying.

Annie
 
proecclesia.com/penny%20catechism/
  1. In how many ways may we either cause or share the guilt of another’s sin?
Code: 
We may either cause or share the guilt of another's sin in nine ways:
1. By counsel.
2. By command.
3. By consent.
4. By provocation.
5. By praise or flattery.
6. By concealment.
7. By being a partner in the sin.
8. By silence.
9. By defending the ill done.
 
Advocatus_Fidei said:
proecclesia.com/penny%20catechism/
  1. In how many ways may we either cause or share the guilt of another’s sin?
Code: 
We may either cause or share the guilt of another's sin in nine ways:
1. By counsel.
2. By command.
3. By consent.
4. By provocation.
5. By praise or flattery.
6. By concealment.
7. By being a partner in the sin.
8. By silence.
9. By defending the ill done.
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Thanks again.

Annie
 
Advocatus_Fidei said:
proecclesia.com/penny%20catechism/
  1. In how many ways may we either cause or share the guilt of another’s sin?
Code: 
We may either cause or share the guilt of another's sin in nine ways:
1. By counsel. - **As in advising someone to have an abortion**
2. By command.
3. By consent.-** As in taking someone to have an abortion, and voting for candidates that openly support abortion**
4. By provocation.
5. By praise or flattery.- **By cheerleading the abortion process or industry**
6. By concealment.
7. By being a partner in the sin.-**Demanding your wife or girlfriend have an abortion**
8. By silence.- **By not writing to Congress/Senate to request abortion stop. By not praying for the end of abortion. **
9. By defending the ill done.-**By making public statements that advance the agenda of abortionists**
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We can’t force or stop anyone from having an abortion or committing any other kind of sin.

Some people just want to kill their unborn children.

Even with abortions being legal, there are people who kill their babies with a pencil or punching a girl/woman’s stomach, etc. They don’t want to go to a clinic.

Many couples WANT to adopt children and are advertising for a baby (even when they get one, a mother can take her child back so they keep looking), but they are ignored by women who just want to get rid of the “parasite” growing inside them.

Since it is a “sensitive issue” not all places require parents or police to be notified when a minor gets an abortion… so sexual abuse cases can continue for years and a girl can get many abortions before her rapist is finally caught and put in jail.

Women who had abortions long ago and step forward to encourage young women to not choose the path they chose are being silenced by the “free love” movement. “My body, my choice”… it’s very short-sighted thinking… but then again so is having unprotected sex or even protected sex since no birth control method is 100% effective.

It’s just like the people who are told to date someone of your faith. Problems can arise, divorce is much more likely. But people are too caught up in the moment to think clearly. They are “in love” and their heads are in the clouds and they cannot be reasoned with.

Most voting is the lesser of two evils, so you are actually voting against the “worse” person instead of “for” anyone. And voting for a third party is pretty much a wasted vote because it’s not a significant enough portion to affect who gets elected… unless by some miracle a third party gets a huge amount of support.
 
Stephe1987 -

Your comment that voting has become a choice of who is the least evil vs not voting for a 3rd party candidate because they can’t win and you will waste your vote, is the political “spin” that the Liberal’s want you to accept as true, when in fact it is a lie.

Voting for the least evil person, who still supports abortion, is NOT an option. If either one will continue abortion, you have entered into sin with your vote. You cannot absolve yourself by voting for the least evil person, because in the end, an abortionist is an abortionist whether it is a doctor, nurse, congressman, senator or public voter - if they knowingly support abortion.

Voting for a 3rd party candidate that does not support abortion IS the answer. The more votes that move away from the two party candidates that both support abortion, the send the message that the party(s) are losing support and need to rethink their platform.
 
I have a quick question about Aquinas. In a debate online I heard atheist author Christopher Hitchens say that Aquinas believed he had the ability to levitate ( a slight to Aquinas making him look less credible). I’ve looked for this online but can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know what he is referring to? G.K. Chesterton comes to mind when I heard that and I wondered if there might be something that I don’t understand. Somewhere in Orthodoxy I remember Chesterton talking a bout levitiation. A quote I remember him saying was something like “angels can fly because they take themselves lightly”.
 
I have a quick question about Aquinas. In a debate online I heard atheist author Christopher Hitchens say that Aquinas believed he had the ability to levitate ( a slight to Aquinas making him look less credible). I’ve looked for this online but can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know what he is referring to? G.K. Chesterton comes to mind when I heard that and I wondered if there might be something that I don’t understand. Somewhere in Orthodoxy I remember Chesterton talking a bout levitiation. A quote I remember him saying was something like “angels can fly because they take themselves lightly”.
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I haven’t seen anything in Aquinas work that he claims himself that he was able to levitate. It appears other people have made this claim over him, but if someone is asserting that Aquinas claimed to levitate; the burden of proof it upon them to prove where he made this claim.

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Yea I haven’t ever read anywhere in his writings anything about levitation and I was just curious. I was just wondering if there were any thomistic issues that I should know about.
 
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