Thursday, September 12, 2013

Sts. Gregory the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Speaking the Truth

"If people are scandalized at the truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the truth."
St. Gregory the Great in Hom. super Ezech. 7, quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologiæ, 2a2æ.43.7.

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