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Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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St. Thomas and the Classical Christian Tradition Are Not Trying to Snuff Out Passion or Love

Inflamed passion is not ordered to reason and can only distract, even temporarily suspend reason. The person who habitually makes choices that are guided by reason separates himself from the animals. Such a person we would call a virtuous person. That's what a virtuous person is. A virtuous person loves rightly.

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