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Pius X’s 1914 twenty-four Thomistic theses make a closed list obligatory in schools

In 1914 the Holy See approved twenty-four Thomistic theses as safe norms for teaching. A closed thesis-list is a curricular freeze. In the causal graph this event weakens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — a worsening welfare path.

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In 1914 the Holy See approved twenty-four Thomistic theses as safe norms for teaching. A closed thesis-list is a curricular freeze.

Context

Safe theses helped examiners and harmed open questions in biology and history. Twin of Aeterni Patris, tighter.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Thomas AquinasNew Advent · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — AquinasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactPius X’s 1914 twenty-four Thomistic theses make a closed list obligatory in schools
  3. weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Pius X’s 1914 twenty-four Thomistic theses make a closed list obligatory in schools. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-doctor-common-1914

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-doctor-common-1914

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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