Stained Glass window depicting Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church, in the Cathedral of Mechelen, Belgium.(Jorisvo / Getty ...

In reference to ethics, Aquinas offers us a more robust and objective understanding of the nature of the good than Hume, viewing goodness as what best conforms to truth and a thing’s proper end.

Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan (d. 1534)—also a Dominican—was not so sure. He was far more impressed by Aquinas the Aristotelian philosopher. In Cajetan’s view, Aquinas, more than any other scholastic ...

Tuesday is feast day of St Thomas Aquinas, one of the Catholic Church’s 37 “super saints”, or Doctors of the Church. This week marks the 800th anniversary of his birth. He was a Dominican ...

St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) ... That is a wholly other question. In a very real sense, that Good News ought to both greet and grate.