The prayer expresses Aquinas’ sincere desire to increase in his knowledge of God and to do all things in His service: Put my life in good order, O my God. Grant that I may know what You require ...

Hundreds of students travel annually to Rome to study the prodigious philosophical and theological works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Angelic Doctor,” whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates ...

But knowledge has primacy: We first have to know God before we act in a godly way (Summa Theologiae Ia, q. 1, art. 4). This primacy of knowledge over praxis is significant in St. Thomas ...

But, Thomas Aquinas, like Thomas Jefferson, was not content merely to gain knowledge, he wished to share it and dedicated himself to a life of teaching as well as learning.

March 7 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, who uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to heaven.

Between the ancient world and modernity stands St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican priest. He was the greatest thinker of the thirteenth century in Europe and known as “Doctor Angelicus ...

Thomas Aquinas held that happiness is one of the foundational characteristics ... I encourage personal reflection and contemplation to propel the conceptual knowledge into the realm of prayer, ...

Rome Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 14:00 pm. On the eve of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ death, a skull revered as a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas was carried in a solemn procession ...

Let us never forget that the depth of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought flows forth from his lively faith and his fervent devotion, which he expressed in inspired prayers, such as this one in which he ...

Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2024 / 08:00 am. Hundreds of students travel annually to Rome to study the prodigious philosophical and theological works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Angelic Doctor ...