SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2014 – St. Thomas Aquinas’ theoretical and philosophical brilliance were evident in his writings, particularly his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae. Aquinas also provided ...

Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...

“Saint Thomas Aquinas” by G. K. Chesterton, the author of fiction and nonfiction books, including the famous Father Brown murder mysteries, wrote this comparatively short history of the Italian Roman ...

When I arrived at Fordham University in the fall of 2007, W. Norris Clarke, S.J., was reaching the end of more than 50 years of teaching there, where he was a great light in the study of Thomas ...

(The Conversation) — Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, ...

Everyone, it seems, is talking about Flannery O’Connor. The Georgia-based late Catholic author of Wiseblood and a number of compelling short stories, is the subject of the recently released film ...

Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - "Openness, inclusiveness, innovation, rationality" and many other characteristics of the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) were the focus of the "Fifth National ...

A saint whose teachings 'underpin the Christian faith' can be seen for the first time in 750 years – and now we know his traumatic cause of death. Thomas Aquinas shaped Catholic doctrine for centuries ...