Watch the video above of Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P., STD delivering the annual St. Thomas Day Lecture at St. Vincent Ferrer in New York. He considers the basics of John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" apropos the perennial wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, whom JPII himself taught, the Church has justly and consistently proposed as a master of thought (i.e.,…  » More

Watch the video above of Fr. Allan White O.P., Socius to the Master of the Dominican Order, giving a lecture in honor of the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Irish Dominican Studium in Dublin. The talk was entitled "the Humble Intelligence of the Heart" about study in the Dominican Order.

Watch the video above in which Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, O.P., Secretary of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, preaches during the Mass in honor of Catholic University's patron St. Thomas Aquinas at the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (A written copy of this…  » More

Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., professor emeritus of the University of Fribourg, is one of the world's leading scholars of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. His two-volume biography of the Angelic Doctor, St Thomas Aquinas : The Person and His Work (vol. 1) and Spiritual Master (vol. 2), is already a classic.

Like all theologians (at least, I…  » More

Fr. Jonah Pollock, O.P., delivers the third lecture of a nine-part series of theological catechesis on the Threefold Body of Christ - Natural, Eucharistic, and Ecclesial. This lecture wraps up the segment on the natural body born of Mary, considering the significance of Christ's temptation, suffering, and death. As these paschal dynamics are rooted…  » More

The first called
In a Wednesday catechesis from 2006, our Holy Father explains why St. Andrew is called the "protoclete":

"He was truly a man of faith and hope; and one day he heard John the Baptist proclaiming Jesus as: "the Lamb of God" (Jn 1:36); so he was stirred, and with another unnamed disciple followed Jesus, the one whom John had called…  » More

Every summer, the student brothers are sent throughout the province to work in various apostolates. Over the next few days, we will have a few short descriptions of what some of the student brothers did.

Talking to men on death row about Jesus is no simple matter. After passing through the innumerable walls, gates, and security barriers to reach…  » More

The following are excerpts from a lecture delivered by Archbishop Michael Miller, C.S.B., of Vancouver, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston on January 28, 2010.  They were published in the April 14th edition L'Osservatore Romano and are reprinted here with permission.

The Church's "Common Doctor": Aquinas and the Contemporary Catholic…  » More