“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ― St. Thomas Aquinas If you want to follow St.

One would expect a class on happiness to be fairly popular among high school students. In one way or other, every Catholic high school offers just this type of class—only we call it theology. St.

“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 ...

"Endeavoring to avoid these and other like faults, we shall try, by God's help, to set forth whatever is included in this sacred doctrine as briefly and clearly as the matter itself may allow" [1].

Rarely heard in our national discussion on justice is mention of charity. Michael Krom, professor of philosophy at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, argues that justice and charity are the ...

Why read Thomas Aquinas? For Catholics and those interested in theology the answer is obvious, but his influence extends beyond that. He was one of the greatest medieval interpreters of Aristotle.

(RNS) — The head of the medieval Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas is currently touring 10 U.S. cities in a finale to its yearlong international journey marking the anniversary of the Dominican friar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Peter confute heretics in a 1369 fresco by Andrea Bonaiuto in Florence's Spanish Chapel. Leemage/Corbis ...