Word: aquinases
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No Dinner. Today, at 65, white-haired, stooped and serene, Jacques Maritain shares with his countryman Etienne Gilson the place of honor among living Roman Catholic philosophers. Since 1945 Maritain has served as France's ambassador to the Vatican, giving no official dinners, roaming through other people's...
The only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she...
In the paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls. All sat raptly silent along the wainscoted wall, while speaker followed speaker at the highly-polished wooden reading stand...
"Existentialism" is more than the name of a jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought...
The light had shone from one of history's great treasure houses, which was a library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance...