St. Aquinas (to Moms) on Repaying Favors at Once

Just like I read encyclicals, I read the Summa theologiae like a mother, which lends itself to a more homely brand of scholarship. Moms? Oh, we get the systematic dialectic of St. Thomas because it’s kind of like how we deal with our children. We pose a question. The children say, “No, I think it’s this way.” Another child says, “Well, I think it’s that way.” [...]