Pachamama Pope

Spiritual work of mercy

Yes, according to St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, because

the correction which is … an act of charity belongs to each one towards all those whom he ought to love, and in whom he sees something to correct … if there were any danger to the faith, superiors would have to be rebuked by inferiors, even in public. So Paul, who was subject to Peter, rebuked him for this reason. And on this subject Augustine’s gloss explains: “Peter himself shows by his example to those who have the pre-eminence, if it happened to them to deviate from the right path, not to refuse to be corrected, even by their inferiors.” (Summa Theologica II-II, q.33, a.4).

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