Thomas Aquinas:

Heretics, therefore, must be excommunicated and cut off from the Church, and, finally, delivered to the secular tribunal to be put to death.

— Thomas Aquinas Medieval

Catholic philosopher and theologian

Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Q. 11, Art. 3

c. 1265-1274

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