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𝗤: 𝗔𝘀 𝗦𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? A: In his Summa of Theology, St. Thomas says that those who have been brought up in the Catholic Faith, but who abandon the Church and become heretics deserve to be excommunicated by the Church. And in the state of society prevailing in his time, long before the advent of Protestantism, when all were Catholics, they deserved to be put to death by the state as corruptors of the public faith and morals, if they tried to propagate their errors. He declared that forging of false doctrine was worse than forging false money (for which the death penalty was then inflicted). But he added that the Church should exercise the role of mercy, and first try to convert her erring subjects, declaring them cut off from the Church only if they were contumacious. Only then were they to be handed over to the secular power for punishment according to the civil law of the times. He did not claim that the Church herself had the right to inflict any death penalty.

Scripture is based on our doctrines, not the other way around. Mary was immaculately conceived before Gabriel's greeting. She was a perpetual virgin before Scripture named the real parents of her alleged children. The Eucharist was literal before John 6 was committed to paper.