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English Summa almsgiving questions print surplus as due to those in urgent need

The English Summa prints that alms from surplus can be due, not merely decorative, when another’s need is urgent. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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The English Summa prints that alms from surplus can be due, not merely decorative, when another’s need is urgent. It is not a famine-relief agency. It is a heading that later Catholic social teaching cited for access to means of life.

Context

Due-alms can be paternalist. It still names a claim of the hungry against surplus. Medium confidence.

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 0.28 · 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.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 almsgiving questions print surplus as due to those in urgent need
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). English Summa almsgiving questions print surplus as due to those in urgent need. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-humanitarian-alms

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-humanitarian-alms

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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