Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation XV: On Schism
BY Schism, worse still, one sins, in that he rejects with a discordant will the truth acknowledged in his mind, and, in place of the closer union in the dogma of faith, follows a long distance of wills; wherefore it is chiefly opposed to Charity, which dwells in the will and reduces the members of the Church into one body; hence we shall inquire what sort of sin, and how great, Schism is.
EO detrius per Schisma delinquitur, quod agnitam in mente veritatem, discordi voluntate reprobet, et propriorem in Dogmate fidei unionem, sequatur longa voluntatum distantia, quam ob rem Charitati, quae voluntati insidet, et membra Ecclesiae in unum corpus reducit, maxime opponitur; hinc inquiremus, quale, et quantum peccatum sit Schisma.