It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as 'the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.' [St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 73, 3c.] In the most blessed ...

(Wikipedia) St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, to a noble family with relatives who ruled the Holy ... He made his last confession and asked to receive the Eucharist one last time. Before it, he ...

Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...

On the heels of the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas touring the nation, a new study released this week gives Catholics a glimpse at what the “Angelic Doctor” may have looked like. The image of the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes. We were in luck, the porter said: It was a ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road ...

The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas during a stop at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio, in December 2024. Nheyob/Wikimedia Commons ...