Melchor Cano

Melchor Cano

Melchor Cano, O.P., (1509 – 30 September 1560) was a Spanish Scholastic theologian. Cano's most important theological work was his posthumously published De locis theologicis (Salamanca, 1563), a major contribution to the New Scholasticism of the Salamanca school.

Quotes

• Peter does not need our lies or our flattery. Those who blindly and indiscriminately defend every decision of the Supreme Pontiff are the ones who most undermine the authority of the Holy See: they destroy, rather than strengthen, its foundations.

• quoted in Antonio Socci, La profezia finale: lettera a Papa Francesco sulla Chiesa in tempo di guerra, Rizzoli, Milano, 2016, p. 57. ISBN 8858682874.