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Highway regulations, the priest points out, derive from the Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of...
No Leonardo. All too often, Johnson has sought to substitute promises for challenge. "I'm not sure he knows how to level with the public any more," says a Southern editor, "except in the old Texas-New Deal sense. Tm gonna build y'all a dam. I'm gonna put...
Not all the witnesses are quite so exotic in their convictions. On the offchance that traditional Christian teaching provides the best answer, Richard C. Spurney, a Roman Catholic philosophy instructor at Mount San Antonio junior college near Los Angeles, plans to submit six volumes of theological research containing 50 proofs...
An American theologian teaching in Rome allows that "Luther was right on indulgences and on most theological points," and that his teachings on justification "are more palatable to me than Thomas Aquinas." After studying one of Luther's major doctrinal tracts, reports Father John Healey of the Jesuits'...
St. Thomas Aquinas and others expanded Augustine's standards, and the list has been elaborated ever since. Modern criteria of a just war include 1) discrimination between killing soldiers and civilians; 2) reasonable possibility of victory; 3) "proportionality" between the amount of harm done by the war and the...