On the Via Pulchritudinis: Pope Benedict XVI’s Meditations on Art and Prayer - Fr. Alan O'Sullivan, O.P.
Fr. Alan O'Sullivan provides an introduction to Pope Benedict XVI's thought on the "via pulchritudinis" — the way of beauty — arguing that a...
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Purifying the Imagination: Iconoclasm and the Incarnation - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy argues that the Exodus prohibition on graven images was a purification of Israel's imagination from false imaginings of...
Iconoclastic and Incarnational Church Architecture - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy argues that church architecture is "incarnational" when it corresponds to a true cosmological vision of reality ordered...
Aquinas on Conscience as the Application of Knowledge to Practice - Fr. David Goodill, O.P.
Fr. David Goodill explains that, for Aquinas, conscience is not a power of the soul but an act of the intellect rooted in the natural habit...
Aquinas on Conscience and the Inner Act of the Will - Fr. David Goodill, O.P.
Fr. David Goodill expounds Aquinas's treatment of conscience in Summa theologiae I-II, q.19, arguing that conscience is the inner act of the...
Conscience First, and to the Pope Afterwards - Prof. Lewis Ayres
Prof. Lewis Ayres presents Newman's account of conscience as, not a private inner voice, but the echo of God's voice within the human being,...
Newman Against Hitler: Reflections on Ratzinger - Prof. Lewis Ayres
Prof. Lewis Ayres draws on Newman's Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent and Essay on the Development of Doctrine to argue that conscience mu...
Imagination and Conscience - Prof. Medi Volpe
Prof. Medi Volpe argues that conscience is formed through the imagination, which is nurtured and filled by stories, so that discerning right...
Conscience in Everyday Life - Prof. Medi Volpe
Prof. Medi Volpe argues that conscience is not an abstract faculty but an everyday moral sense that must be awakened and nurtured, and that...
Aquinas' Epistemology with Reflections from a Friar-Medical Doctor - Fr. Chris Gault, O.P.
Fr. Chris Gault, O.P. lays out Aquinas's epistemology of moderate realism, in which all knowledge begins with the senses and the agent intel...
Sanctity and the Discipline of Study - Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.
Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. argues that the natural human desire to know, though it draws the mind toward the contemplation of God, can only re...
Justification According to St. Thomas - Prof. Erik Dempsey
Prof. Erik Dempsey explains St. Thomas Aquinas’s account of justification as God’s free gift of grace, which heals sin, moves human freedom,...
Shakespeare and Aquinas on Kinds of Knowing - Sr. Maria Frassati Jakupcak, O.P.
Sr. Maria Frassati Jakupcak shows how Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure exposes the limits of abstract knowledge and reveals why some truths...
Shakespeare and Aquinas on Prudence, Part Two - Fr. Jordan Zajac
Fr. Jordan Zajac takes Shakespeare’s most morally charged characters and Aquinas’s deepest insights on love, hatred, and prudence to show wh...
Shakespeare and Aquinas on Prudence, Part One - Fr. Jordan Zajac
Fr. Jordan Zajac uses Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Aquinas’s account of prudence to show how a person can know the good, reject it in imaginati...
The Priesthood of Christ and Your Beatitude - Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P.
Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P., explains how Christ’s eternal priesthood fulfills the human desire for beatitude by reconciling humanity t...
St. Leo the Great on Love of the Poor and the Weak - Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., presents St. Leo the Great’s theology of mercy, showing how love for the poor and weak flows from Christ’s Incarnati...
Words Matter: Thomas Aquinas on the Philosophy of Language - Prof. Catherine Peters
Prof. Catherine Peters unpacks Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy of language and reveals how the words we use do more than describe reality: they...
If God Doesn’t Exist, Science is Impossible - Dr. Wes Siscoe
Dr. Wes Siscoe tackles a big question in science and philosophy, arguing that the very fact that nature follows stable, intelligible laws po...
Thomas Aquinas on Vocational Discernment - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy brings Aquinas into the urgent modern conversation about vocation, showing why the path to a call is not endless hesita...