`::: Perhaps my point will be more clear if we look at a more strict translation: From New Advent, it reads: ``With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death.`` (Emphasis added) :::``On the part of the Church, however, there is mercy which looks to the conversion of the wanderer...`` In other words, the sin of heresy is ``worthy`` of death in a spiritual sense, but the Church is merciful to them. The next article asks ``Whether the Church should receive those who return from heresy?,`` and the answer is that the first time they repent, it should be done so; and the second time, it would appear that they are attempting to trick those of the Church, which is worthy of penalty. It would be entirely inconsistent if Aquinas demanded that heretics be executed, because the patron saint of the religious order he belonged to, St. Dominic, made it the mission of the Dominican Order to rescue those who have fallen into heresy. -     `