by John Mortensen | Mar 7, 2022
My friendship with Thomas Aquinas began at the International Theological Institute in Austria, in the Kartause Gaming. I learned to talk with St. Thomas as I studied: just as he had small chats with St. Paul, Our Lord, and the saints while he was studying, asking them...
by John Mortensen | Mar 7, 2021
As it is the year of St. Joseph, we are all trying to get to know this great self-effacing saint better. But we modern Catholics are very susceptible to projecting our own conflicts and ambivalences onto the saints. Certainly, it’s a great spiritual exercise to place...
by John Mortensen | Jul 27, 2020
There are many excellent Catholic brick-and-mortar colleges these days, and several good online programs. Nonetheless, few students discover the tremendous heritage of Western civilization, and, for various reasons, only a tiny percentage of all Catholics will attend...
by John Mortensen | Jan 1, 2020
In 1858 Our Lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl in Lourdes, France. Our Lady called herself the Immaculate Conception. One year later Our Lady appeared to Adele Brise, a young woman in Champion, Wisconsin, and called herself the Queen of Heaven. Both...
by John Mortensen | Jun 28, 2018
When the Aquinas Institute was founded in 2008, we built on a strong foundation. We had a deep background in St. Thomas Aquinas, years of experience translating medieval Latin, and a passion for our mission: to make the texts of Aquinas available as widely as possible...
This year marks the Aquinas Institute’s 15th anniversary of promoting St. Thomas’s way of thinking, studying, and loving. In order to celebrate we will be collecting donations and subscriptions from which we will draw seven lucky winners on March 7th. Each winner will receive a free book of the winner's choice from our Aquinas Opera Omnia Series.
Our friend Fr. Yuriy Kolasa sent photos illustrating what your donations are doing for Ukrainians.
There’s a certain sweet appropriateness to our announcement today of our publication of the last remaining Scriptural commentary in the Aquinas opera omnia, the Commentary on Jeremiah.
Through a special collaboration, St. Bernard’s School of Theology & Ministry (St. Bernard’s) and the Aquinas Institute are pleased to announce a new “Great Books Graduate Certificate in Theology” educational opportunity beginning this Fall 2022!
The Aquinas Institute is pleased to announce the release of St. Thomas's Commentary on the Physics, available for pre-order.