![]() ![]() Nevertheless, for the average Catholic sitting in the pews of the average parish, Aquinas remains distant and largely inaccessible in his own writings. Thomas, and many excellent books have been published for both academic and popular audiences. ![]() The early years of the 21st century have seen a tremendous growth of interest in the thought of St. Indeed, while the neo-scholastic revival flourished for several decades in the wake of Leo’s encyclical Aeterni Patris, the “golden wisdom” of the Angelic Doctor has been conspicuously absent from many Catholic schools and even seminaries in the decades following the Second Vatican Council. These words of Leo XIII are no less certain today than when the Holy Father promulgated them 150 years ago. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences.” “ WE exhort you, venerable brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. ![]()
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