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To curb the spread of COVID-19, houses worship in State New York were legally required to limit attendance at religious ceremonies. Two communities—the Roman Catholic Diocese Brooklyn and Orthodox Jewish organization, Agudath Israel America—asked U.S. Supreme Court intervene. This article provides a theological interpretation Court’s decision grant these communities injunctive relief, thus free...

Most medieval scholarship arises from an encounter with the surviving texts of the Middle Ages and the documents which convey them. The use of computers to store and analyse these texts has a surprisingly long history. As early as 1949, when the computer was still in its infancy, Roberto Busa began developing an electronic concordance to the works of Thomas Aquinas the Index Thomisticus. Until ...

If some action is intrinsically evil, it lacks all moral goodness. This act keeps physical goodness in the sense that real, but suffers from a real deficient disorder. It morally evil its essence because privation shapes objective character. Its disorder defines at core. Such an not only affected by evil; constituted evil. The formality and identity of itself. St. Thomas Aquinas argues these ac...