by Beth Mortensen | Nov 15, 2021
Despite being one of only a handful of saints with the title “Great,” St. Albert seems to live in the shadow of his greatest pupil, St. Thomas Aquinas. Any description of the life of this doctor of the Church necessarily focuses on the fact that he was St. Thomas’s...
by Beth Mortensen | Oct 7, 2021
A professor from a Great Books program said that when she encounters former students in airports or parking lots, the question they always ask is, “How do I get back there? How do I return to thinking about the important things and asking meaningful questions?” How do...
by Beth Mortensen | Jul 1, 2021
Earlier this year I found myself studying Pope Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical, “Humani Generis” (On the Human Race). This dazzling document confronts the errors that the human mind can easily fall into, many rooted in either trusting human reason to pass judgment on...
by Beth Mortensen | Apr 17, 2021
This summer, the Aquinas Institute will be offering two intensive courses focusing on the contributions of two monumental authors: St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante. In honor of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Dr. Jason Baxter will be leading a multimedia,...
by Beth Mortensen | Jan 28, 2021
What is hope? What can we hope for? Can a Christian place his hope in anything other than God? For many years I have felt drawn to learn what St. Thomas has to teach us about hope, but I had never taken the time to study his writings on this topic. Providentially, as...
