The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if
any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents
as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas
any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents
as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas
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-- St.
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-- St.
Thomas...
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