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Welcome to Pines with Aquinas, episode 60. I'm Matt Frad.

If you could sit down with St Thomas Aquinas over a pint of beer and ask him any one question,

what would it be? Today we'll ask St Thomas, is sex sinful?

Yes, welcome back to Pines with Aquinas. The show where you and I pull up a bar stall to

discuss the oligene philosophy and today we're talking about sex with St Thomas Aquinas.

Now you may have noticed if you've read much of Aquinas that he's not a very colorful

writer. He's not very flowery and I think that's fine. I think that we could say that Augustin

is beautiful like a garden is beautiful but Aquinas is beautiful like a tall is beautiful.

I don't mean Aquinas is a tall obviously but he's precise and he uses language very clearly

because he's very interested in communicating what he wants to communicate effectively as I

say clearly. The same will be true here in responding to an objection that sex is sinful.

He's not going to speak like I would speak. He's going to speak very specifically and

concretely. So what I want to do in this episode is read from the supplemental section of the

Sumer Theology A. Let's see I'm probably going to look through a few of them here. Questions 41, 42, 49.

And we'll see what he says. But this is the big one. I mean this is the question that most

non-catholics or at least those who are against the church, this is the problem they have. They

think that Catholics are against sex, that Catholics have an undue suspicion of the body and so forth.

This might be true of Catholics just like it might be true of anybody but certainly the church

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