The University chose Almain to reply to a polemical tract by Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, the Pope's most eminent apologist.
Nor did Almain comment directly on the Fifth Lateran Council called by Pope Julius to counter the assembly in Pisa.
His Moralia became a standard textbook of moral theology, presenting ethical issues in a dry Scholastic style.
His political thought embraced the need for order but allowed a community to restrain any ruler whose conduct had become dangerous to its very survival.
Almain's critique of Cajetan's treatise on the papacy argued that Church and State were parallel in nature, both able to act against an errant leader, whether pope or king.