I was in Ghent last Sunday, and had expected, as in England, the feast of Corpus Christi to be celebrated then, transferred from the Thursday before, to make it easier for people to get to church. But ...

Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, was one of the earliest thinkers to articulate a theory of just war.

If the best metric for judging a comedy show is the amount of laughter, then Stand Up for Jesus was an undeniable success. It also might hold a key to understanding what constitutes Catholic comedy.

These 2025 high school graduates can look back with pride and forward with confidence, as we salute them in our annual ...

A saint whose teachings 'underpin the Christian faith' can be seen for the first time in 750 years – and now we know his traumatic cause of death. Thomas Aquinas shaped Catholic doctrine for ...

St. Thomas Aquinas — a 13th-century doctor of the Church — in his “ Summa Theologica ” cited and expanded on St. Augustine’s work, writing that there must be “some order in things ...

But Aquinas insists that physical remains really are more like mementos of the deceased than parts of them. When St. Teresa of Calcutta died, for instance, she left behind a corpse and a soul.

In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics.

At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas––the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study ––made its first tour of the United States.

ABSTRACT: Talking about St. Thomas Aquinas is nearly an uphill task. Being a man of unique caliber, the writings of the towering academician, scientist, and philosopher cum theologian are practically ...

The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-Century theologian and author of Summa Theologica, in a reliquary. The major relic, normally kept in France, will be on display for two days of viewing ...