Saint Thoman Aquinas, Summa Theologia (13th Century
Doctrine of the Catholic Church); as excerpted by Martha Lee Osbourne in
Women in WesternThought (Random House) 1979, pgs
68-69:
"(OBJ. 3) - ...Occasions of sin should be cut off. But God foresaw
that the woman would be an occasion of sin to man. Therefore He should
not have made woman...
(Reply OBJ 3) - If God had deprived the world of all those things which
proved an occasion of sin, the universe would have been imperfect..."