If a man be a fornicator, or an adulterer, or a drunkard, or any such like, he is not thereby cut off from the Church, because such sins do not separate a man from the faith. But heresy does separate a man from the faith, and consequently from the Church.
— Thomas Aquinas Medieval

Catholic philosopher and theologian

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Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Q. 11, Art. 3, Reply to Obj. 3

Date / Period

c. 1265-1274

Category

Shocking

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https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3011.htm#article3

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