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correção fraterna Admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming him.
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Objection 1: It would seem that fraternal correction belongs to prelates alone.
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Therefore fraternal correction is an act, not of charity, but of justice.
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Therefore fraternal correction is an act, not of charity, but of prudence.
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But fraternal correction does not come under any precept of the Decalogue.
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Objection 1: It would seem that fraternal correction is not an act of charity.
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Objection 1: It would seem that fraternal correction is not a matter of precept.
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But fraternal correction is a matter of precept, as stated above (A.
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Therefore it seems that fraternal correction belongs to prelates alone.
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Therefore fraternal correction belongs to those who are placed above others in spiritual matters, i.e.
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Since, therefore, fraternal correction is a matter of precept, as stated above (A.
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Therefore fraternal correction is not a matter of precept.
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This is fraternal correction properly so called, which is directed to the amendment of the sinner.
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Now fraternal correction is a good thing.
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Yet holy and spiritual men are found to omit fraternal correction: since Augustine says (De Civ.
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Consequently fraternal correction also is an act of charity, because thereby we drive out our brother's evil, viz.
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The other fraternal correction is directed to the amendment of the wrongdoer, whom it does not coerce, but merely admonishes.
