under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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St Thomas AquinasI. Pope Paul VI on St Thomas AquinasOn 5th December, 1974, Pope Paul VI published an Apostolic Letter to the Master General of the Dominican Order on the Seventh Centenary of death of St Thomas Aquinas in which he stressed the importance of the perennial philosophy of St Thomas in the Church and in her teachings. An English translation of the letter has been generally unavailable on the internet. more II. Pope John Paul on St Thomas AquinasOn 13th September, 1980, Pope John Paul II addressed the participants in the Eighth International Thomistic Congress stressing the fundamental place in Catholic philosophy and theology of the teaching of St Thomas Aquinas. We have reproduced here a transcript of the report in L'Osservatore Romano. more III. Commentary on 24 Theses of St Thomas AquinasThe Sacred Congregation of Studies back in July 1914, endorsed certain theses of St Thomas to be adhered to rigorously by teachers in Catholic seminaries and houses of formation. The document so published was referred to recently by Dr John Lamont in a paper on the Rorate Caeli blogsite. We set out a short commentary on the document (reproduced in an English translation in the appendix) to assist those who may be unfamiliar with St Thomas’s thought. more IV. Chesterton on St ThomasThis is a reproduction of part of ‘The Permanent Philosophy’, the seventh chapter of Chesterton’s study of St Thomas Aquinas published in 1933. It sets out with splendid clarity St Thomas’s teaching on being and defends it against the sages of the modern age. more V. What is It That We Know When We KnowHere is a further extract from Chesterton’s fine explanation of St Thomas’s teachings. more |