Bishop Robert Barron on St. Thomas Aquinas' Teachings and Our Time

"As I prayed before the tomb of [St. Thomas]Aquinas, I found myself ruminating on the importance for our own time of the one whom the church calls its 'common doctor.' What can this 13th century Dominican master teach us? First, Thomas Aquinas saw with utter clarity that since all truth comes from God, there can never be, finally, any conflict between the data of the sciences and the facts of revelation. In his own time, there were advocates of the so-called 'double truth theory,' which held that the  'truths' of philosophy and science were in one category and the 'truths' of the faith in another. On this interpretation, one could hold mutually exclusive positions as long as one remained cognizant that the opposing views were in separate departments of the mind. . . ."

In a recent commentary, Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, reflected the importance of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas as we face a number of issues in our time.

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