Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Shame Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 03:05:51 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jmgreen@pilot.njin.net (Jim Green) writes: I am led to wonder what kind of mystical reading of the scriptures gave rise to his last sentence. Not until the doctrine invented in the Dark Ages (long after the death of the Apostles) and later promulgated principally by T. Aquinas (who seems never to have fully repented his philandering), is this thought proffered with any kind of seriousness. Could we have some evidence that St. Thomas Aquinas was a philanderer at any point in his life, please? In Catholic moral theology, I believe the above statement is classified as calumny. I suppose you were just in a bad mood. [His previous response suggests that the author was thinking of Augustine, who openly admited this. --clh]