Today is the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, often called by the Latin name, “Corpus Christi.” The feast emerged in the Middle Ages, on the initiative of St. Thomas Aquinas, and was ...

We whisper it to our children, especially at the consecration: Jesus is here. Aquinas is aware of the sort of objections that would be raised by reformers centuries later. He agrees, for example ...

on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a ...