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.

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Peter confute heretics in a 1369 fresco by Andrea Bonaiuto in Florence's Spanish Chapel. Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images ‘The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ by Benozzo ...

I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS. This organization of scholars explores ideas of interest to the Vatican.

NEWBURGH — William Carroll, a theology faculty member of the University of Oxford, will present “The Philosophy of Nature and Contemporary Science: Why Thomas Aquinas Remains Relevant” at 7 p.m. Feb.

NEWBURGH >> Mount St. Mary College will host the sixth annual Thomas Aquinas Philosophy Workshop in June. This year’s theme is “Aquinas on Politics.” The workshop will be held from June 2 through 5.

On the eve of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ death, a skull revered as a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas was carried in a solemn procession through the cobblestone streets of the southern ...

The University of St. Thomas said that it will issue continuous contracts to its philosophy professors on Wednesday or Thursday, more than a week after it threatened to reorganize the department or ...

When you think about it, looking a skull square in the empty eye sockets can seem pretty creepy. Macabre, perhaps. Definitely ...

(The Conversation) — Some years ago, 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 tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, ...