Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00119)

Frank Reitemeyer wrote:
> Bart, did you ever hear of Thomas of Aquinas?
Yes. He declared that the soul entered a baby girl at the 80th day 
after conception.

I actually found a case of a bishop who, in a Synod in France in 585 
AD, brought up the possibility that women didn't have souls based on 
wording in the Vulgate translation, but, after a discussion, it was 
decided that the problem was in the translation, not the theology, and 
that it was clear that women, indeed, have souls.

Bart