The rites of other infidels, which bear no truth or profit, are not to be tolerated in the same way, except perhaps to avoid some evil, for instance the scandal or disturbance that might result, or the hindrance to the salvation of those who, were they unmolested, might gradually be converted to the faith.
— Thomas Aquinas Medieval

Catholic philosopher and theologian

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Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundae, Question 10, Article 11

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c. 1265-1274

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