| There are 203 Jesuits, including priests, brothers and scholastics, in Ireland. |
| Of the medieval scholastics, Aquinas was less interested in who ruled than in the uses to which the ruling interest was put. |
| He went beyond the scholastics to affirm that what violates reason cannot be accepted as revelation. |
| But for the scholastics, the scriptural basis of natural law provided a way of determining those aspects of human nature that are normative. |
| Rather than imposing their own agenda onto Scripture, the scholastics were following long-standing patristic traditions of interpretation. |
| The scholastics developed the theological base for this form of private reconciliation. |
