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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 ...
The covers are striking, with their lurking portrait of the subject; but I am surprised that Helen Bond did not weave this into her short discussion of “Jesus in Art”. Dr John Court is Honorary Senior ...
Indeed, he is here; but that word “here,” as it happens, is a sticky one. St. Thomas Aquinas grapples with, among other Eucharistic topics, the issue of “the way in which Christ is in this ...
Countering a common charge of contemporary theologians, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., said Tuesday that St. Thomas Aquinas' account of the Passion is profoundly Trinitarian.
St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago, on March 7, 1274, at the age of 49. His body was taken to the Cathedral of Toulouse on Jan. 28 of the following year. He was declared doctor of the Church in ...
Detail of ‘St. Thomas Aquinas Writing the Hymn of the Holy Sacrament,’ by Giovanni Barbieri Guercino, 1662 (photo: Public domain) Father Raymond J. de Souza World March 28, 2024 ...
A painting of Aquinas from the Cingoli Cathedral, Italy. Sailko/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY The Aquinas who gets hauled out to settle scores is, I’d argue, not the “O.G.” Aquinas.
As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is "still worth" reading today, nearly 800 years after his birth.
Why you should get to know St. Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived Therese Cory November 25, 2024 ‘St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averroës,’ by Giovanni di Paolo.