Ahead of the celebration of Independence Day, Edward Furton, publications director for The National Catholic Bioethics Center ...

The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, Oxford hosts only the second ever UK conference on the great twentieth-century Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain ...

In a minister’s article from long ago, my junior high English teacher spoke of forgiveness. Years before, she had left the ...

Philosophy is indispensable for intellecutal progress but needs to avoid the seven sins of dogmatism, arrogance, obscurity, ...

The paradox behind recent conflicts is that the communities caught in the fray — Jews, Muslims and Christians — are ...

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

(REVIEW) The university system is under attack. Professors risk careers by publicly speaking out on issues of intellectual freedom. Campuses have become tinderboxes. Meanwhile, the lines between ...

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.

One of Aquinas’s most enduring and important contributions was his ability to bring together concepts that often appeared to be in conflict: faith and reason, theology and philosophy, religion ...

Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), painted by artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Aquinas remains today as influential as any Christian philosopher before or since.

Landmark philosopher, author and Catholic theologian died 750 years ago ... The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-Century theologian and author of Summa Theologica, in a reliquary.

As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is "still worth" reading today, nearly 800 years after his birth.