A Dumb Ox

Today is the feast day of one of my all time favorite saints. A saint who forged the principles of Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. He is honored as a Doctor of the Church, and considered the Church’s greatest theologian and philosopher. He was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest. An immensely…

15 Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas

1. A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. 2. All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. 3. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being…

A Minute with St. Thomas Aquinas

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Whether all things are good by the divine goodness? (Summa Theologica Part 1, Question 6, Article 4, Corpus) (We know God is the ultimate goodness, in fact God is Goodness itself. But how does that relate to us and all the other good things in the world? St. Thomas explains this here…