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 ...

In his Explanation of The Lord’s Prayer, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes there are those temptations that constitute a “solicitation to evil,” and though God may allow these temptations, Aquinas ...

Originally published in French in 2019, A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas is designed to serve an audience who "tried to read something by St. Thomas or about him" and found the language to be an ...

The other two paintings portray two saints: St. Thomas Aquinas’ temptation and St. Teresa of Avila receiving holy Communion. As an added benefit, ...

Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan (d. 1534)—also a Dominican—was not so sure. He was far more impressed by Aquinas the Aristotelian philosopher. In Cajetan’s view, Aquinas, more than any other scholastic ...