On Dec. 6, 1273, 750 years ago, St. Thomas Aquinas did the unthinkable: He permanently abandoned work on his magnum opus, the Summa Theologiae, after many years of intensive labor and just months ...

St. Thomas Aquinas explains that Christ’s descent to hell fulfilled many purposes. Fra Angelico, “Christ in Limbo,” ca. 1442 (photo: Public Domain) Stephen Beale Blogs April 8, 2023 ...

St. Thomas Aquinas is depicted with students in a window at St. Peter's Church in St. Peter, Minnesota. He wrote Summa Theologiae and articulated a theological synthesis that would influence ...

Seven hundred and fifty years ago Thursday (March 7), St. Thomas Aquinas died, having written some 8 million words in two decades of intensive work, including his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae ...

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.

The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is highly systematic, profound, mystical and elaborate, and was recorded in the 13th century. In a word, it is “formidable.” And yet, Aquinas is the master ...

When I heard that the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas was coming to several cities in the Eastern United States in the next few weeks, I knew I had to see it.. If the relic of the renowned Dominican ...