on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St.

All the teachings I have written manifest my faith in Jesus Christ and my love for the holy Catholic Church, of which I profess myself an obedient son.” St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago ...

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 ...

‘Even now, the soul of St. Thomas retains its ordering to this skull and this skull is ordered to his soul... and it will rise again on the Last Day …’ The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas on ...

While most Catholics well-versed in their faith could probably provide a robust explanation as to the question of why Jesus suffered ... Carried Our Sorrows’: Thomas Aquinas on Christ’s ...

Between the ancient world and modernity stands St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican ... In the Summa Theologica St. Thomas begins his treatise on Jesus Christ by recounting the biblical ...

But when the cranium of the medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas comes to visit ... crown of thorns placed by Roman soldiers on Jesus’s head to mock him before execution.

Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.

"St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averroës," by Giovanni di Paolo (St. Louis Art Museum/Wikimedia Commons) But Aquinas' devotees have often used his ideas as blunt instruments, wielding the weight ...

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 ...