For these, Jean-Pierre Torrell's new book, A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian in His Context, is a gift. Torrell, now in his 90s, ...

Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.

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 ...

Still, having another image of Aquinas that accords with our collective imagination of him is not a bad thing." Carlo Crivelli’s 15th century painting of St. Thomas Aquinas. (Photo: Carlo Crivelli ) ...

I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my ...