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

Date: 1920

## The fact

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. Care-as-duty is the improving health-capacity heading of medium confidence.

[Thomas Aquinas](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, Holy See, or archive page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers) (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/; New Advent / Kevin Knight).

## Significance

Printed corporal works toward the sick are a health-capacity heading, not a ministry of health.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Thomas Aquinas: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-aquinas

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas
- https://www.newadvent.org/summa/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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