Archbishop Di Noia on Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Jefferson (An Imagined Encounter)

At an Interfaith Vigil of Blessing on the eve of the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the University of Virginia Charlottesville, Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P., offered some thoughts on what would happen if Thomas Aquinas dined with Thomas Jefferson at Charlottesville.

The remarks of Archbishop Di Noia were recently published in the "On the Square" column of First Things. To access this presentation, please visit:

First Things: On the Square: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Aquinas: An Imagined Encounter (3 AUG 11)

Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia currently serves as Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He formerly was the director of the Intercultural Forum for Studies in Faith and Culture at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and executive director of the secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices of the USCCB. A former editor-in-chief of The Thomist, he also taught systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies for twenty years and was an adjunct professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies.