St. Thomas Aquinas was born in the castle of Rocca Secca, southeast of Rome, about the year 1225. At the age of 5, Thomas became an oblate in the nearby Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, where he ...
Most material on Aquinas gets very philosophical very quickly. This is unfortunate, as the first sight of a passage like “every essence or quiddity can be understood without knowing anything about its ...
In almost two millennia, only 37 saints received the title doctor of the church for their contributions to church teaching. Among them is Thomas Aquinas, who, additionally, has been awarded the titles ...
Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous ...
The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas has arrived at the Dominican Convent of Toulouse, France, and placed in a new reliquary as the order celebrates the 700th anniversary of the saint’s canonization in the ...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS PARISH was established by Bishop IGNATIUS HORSTMANN in 1898 to serve IRISH and GERMAN Catholics in the HOUGH and GLENVILLE neighborhoods. Opening ceremonies featured an Irish play, ...