section_path: Theology/Treatment of heretics/Forced baptism of children of Jews and heretics
section_name: Forced baptism of children of Jews and heretics
paragraph_text: Forced baptism of children of Jews and heretics
  
  The position taken by Thomas was that if children were being reared in error, the Church had no authority to intervene. From Summa Theologica II-II Q. 10 Art. 12:
  
  The question was again addressed by Thomas in Summa Theologica III Q. 68 Art. 10:
  
  The issue was discussed in a papal bull by Pope Benedict XIV (1747) where both schools were addressed. The pope noted that the position of Aquinas had been more widely held among theologians and canon lawyers, than that of John Duns Scotus.