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Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived
Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting ...
‘A blessing for the city’: Sacred skull of St. Thomas Aquinas coming to Baltimore Tuesday
Visitors will have a chance to view St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull up close in Baltimore, and perhaps absorb some of its holiness.
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'A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas' equips readers to understand the saint's theology
Laypersons interested in immersing themselves in the life and legacy of Thomas Aquinas would be well served by reading A ...
'It's a very big deal for us': How a Catholic saint's skull ended up at PC this week
"It's a very big deal for us," Teller said. The Catholic church is currently celebrating Aquinas' jubilee: Last year was the ...
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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas venerated by faithful in Washington during relic’s 3-week US tour
To a packed St. Dominic Church Nov. 29, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington delivered a homily focused on the Catholic ...
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Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived
"St. Thomas Aquinas Confounding Averroës," by Giovanni di Paolo (St. Louis Art Museum/Wikimedia Commons) But Aquinas' devotees have often used his ideas as blunt instruments, wielding the weight ...
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Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived
on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a ...