(RNS) — The head of the medieval Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas is currently touring 10 U.S. cities in a finale to its yearlong international journey marking the anniversary of the Dominican friar ...

Hundreds of students travel annually to Rome to study the prodigious philosophical and theological works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the “Angelic Doctor,” whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates on Jan.

Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman, along with St. Thomas Aquinas, as a patron saint of the Catholic Church’s educational mission in his recent apostolic letter on education, “Drawing New ...

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 feast day. The relics of ...

PROVIDENCE — No casket sat inside the hearse parked outside St. Pius V Catholic Church. There was no funeral scheduled to take place inside this Providence congregation, either. But the remains inside ...

When I heard that the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas was coming to several cities in the Eastern United States in the next few weeks, I knew I had to see it. If the relic of the renowned Dominican friar, ...

"He was the world's flower and glory, and has rendered superfluous the writings of doctors (of theology) who shall come after him." St. Albert the Great is said to have exclaimed these words upon the ...

(The Conversation) — In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics. (The Conversation) — Once, on a road trip in Greece, I ...