Catechism of the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas

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by  Pgues, Thomas, 1866-1936

CATECHISM OF THE
" SUMMA THEOLOGICA "
:
NIHIL OBSTAT
F. Thomas Bergh, O.S.B.,
Censor Depiitatus.
IMPRIMATUR
:
Edm. Can. Surmont,
Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii,
DieZJunii, 1922.
Catechism of the
"Summa
Theologica"
of
Saint Thomas Aquinas
For the Use of the Faithful
BY
THOMAS
R. P. PEGUES, O.P.
MASTER IN THEOLOGY
MEMBER OF THE ROMAN ACADEMY OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF ST. THOMAS AT THE COLLEGIO ANGELICO, ROME
NONV REGENT OF STUDIES AT ST. MAXIMIN, FRANCE
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BRIEF OF
HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XV.
To our well-beloved son Thomas Pegues of the Order
of Friars Preachers,
Beloved Son,
Greeting and Apostolic Benediction.
The manifold honours paid by the Holy See to St.
Thomas Aquinas exclude for ever any doubt from the
mind of Catholics with regard to his being raised up by
God as the Master of Doctrine to be followed by the
Church through all ages. It was therefore fitting that
the singular wisdom of the Holy Doctor should be made
accessible not only to the clergy but to the faithful in
general, and to whomsoever desired to make a deeper
study of the things of religion; for in very truth, the
nearer one approaches to the light, so much the more
is one enlightened.
Much praise is therefore due to you first of all because
you have undertaken to write a commentary in your
mother tongue* upon the greatest work of the Angelic
Doctor, viz., the Summa Theologica (the volumes already
published of this work show what success has attended
your labours); and, secondly, because you have recently
published the Summa Theologicam theform of a catechism.
Therein you have aptly accommodated the riches of the
great genius to the understanding of the less instructed
• French.
V
vi BRIEF OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XV.
as well as of the learned briefly and succinctly you have
;
expounded the doctrine, and in the same luminous order
as that of the Angelic Doctor whose treatise is more
lengthy and more detailed.
We
congratulate you sincerely on this fruit of your
labours which shows your masterly knowledge of St.
Thomas' doctrine. We hope, therefore, through your
love of Holy Church that this work will bring many souls
to a sound knowledge of Christian doctrine.
As a mark of the divine largess and in testimony of our
own special good will we impart in all affection to you and
to your pupils the Apostolic Benediction.
Given at Rome at St. Peter's the fifth day of February,
1919, in the fifth year of our Pontificate,
POPE BENEDICT XV.