At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its first tour of the United States.

I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my ...

The relic of St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull is processed at Providence College, Dec. 4, 2024, during a tour stop in Providence, R.I. (Video screen grab) Saints were even said to collude in this process.