Peter Junger wrote: "More than fifty years ago I found myself worrying about this in a course in Medievial Intellectual History. I wrote something like 'God can't or won't do evil' and the grader crossed out the verbs and wrote, as I recall, 'doesn't.'" Yes, as I understand it, this would be shorthand for the traditional Catholic position. Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html