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English Summa charity and corporal-works questions print care of the sick as a public duty of love

The English Summa’s charity questions print corporal works, including visiting the sick, as obligatory love, a completed moral instrument in public English. In the causal graph this event strengthens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — an improving welfare path.

English Summa charity and corporal-works questions print care of the sick as a public duty of love

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The English Summa’s charity questions print corporal works, including visiting the sick, as obligatory love, a completed moral instrument in public English. The dated carrier is that translation. It is not a hospital budget. Later orders cited it when founding infirmaries.

Context

Twin of the miracle-canonization row.

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.

    1. FactEnglish Summa charity and corporal-works questions print care of the sick as a public duty of love
    2. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1920 · verified

    • Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.6)

      Observed

      3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.

      Above normal = better

    • Under-five mortality rate (global)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)

      Observed

      37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.

      Above normal = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers)New Advent / Kevin Knight · 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 toFactEnglish Summa charity and corporal-works questions print care of the sick as a public duty of love
  3. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
  4. strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)

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Factrail. (2026). English Summa charity and corporal-works questions print care of the sick as a public duty of love. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-health-charity-works

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-health-charity-works

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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