Thomas Aquinas

Good News After a Very Bad Year

It's time to be grateful for the good things of the past year.
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24 Mar 2021

The Vice of Curiosity

We are called daily to engage in the fight against curiosity as we explore ever more deeply the one question that truly matters: “Who do you say that I am?” Continue Reading »

29 Sep 2020

Economists make a point of speaking in conditionals, not categoricals. They never just say: “Do this!” They say: “Do this, if you want that. If these are your ends, this is what you must do to secure them. As for those ends themselves, they’re up to you.” This modesty is, paradoxically, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Transforming Quarantine Into Retreat

by George Weigel

Here are some resources that can help redeem the rest of Lent and the upcoming Easter season. Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

In The River of the Immaculate Conception, James Matthew Wilson confirms his vocation as a public poet. Commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute, this poem sequence of seven parts leads us through the lives of St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Père Marquette, with interludes on . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

What Is an Angel?

by James Brent, O.P.

Thomas Aquinas is often called the angelic doctor because of his profound and extensive teaching on the angels, both the good and the bad ones. Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2020

Soul Proprietor

by Edward Feser

In the history of Western thought, two conceptions of the soul have competed for dominance, one associated with Plato and the other with Aristotle. For the Platonist, your soul is the real you, and your body merely a vehicle to which it is temporarily attached—indeed, your body is a kind of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020