The "summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas V.2:2:6
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i. 30) : It is a commendable liberality if you overlook not your kindred when you know them to be in want ; yet not so as to wish to make them rich with what you can give to the poor. Reply Obj. 3. The goods of churches should not all be given to the poor, except in a case of necessity: for then, as Ambrose says [De Offic. ii. 28), even the vessels consecrated to the divine worship are to be sold for the ransom of prisoners, and other needs of the poor. In such a case of necessity a cleric woul...d sin if he chose to maintain himself on the goods of the Church, always supposing him to have a patrimony of his own on which to support himself. Reply Obj. 4. The goods of the churches should be em- ployed for the good of the poor. Consequently a man is to be commended if, there being no present necessity for helping the poor, he spends the surplus from the Church revenue, in buying property, or lays it by for some future use connected with the Church or the needs of the poor. But if there be a pressing need for helping the poor, to lay by for the future is a superfluous and inordinate saving, and is forbidden by our Lord Who said (Matth.
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