Who leads the Church and the Vatican when its head cannot fulfill this role or passes away? Such a person is already chosen.

“For St. Thomas Aquinas, it is not here in this lifetime where ultimate justice, reward and consolation are to be found. But the afterlife,” she explained. Aquinas is one of the Catholic Church’s ...

Who leads the Church and the Vatican when its head cannot perform his duties or dies? Such a person has already been chosen.

Franciscan University has four intense summer conferences on its campus this year, starting on June 27. These three-day ...

In Ames, Pat was active with the Electrical Engineering Department women’s club and as a longtime parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. As a mother of four girls, Pat was very active in ...

89 For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched ... Lk 24:48-49. 122 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,72,5, ad 2. 123 Cf.

She’s such a Roman Catholic.” This fellow didn’t realize ... attending daily Mass and reading St. Thomas Aquinas before bed each night. Although she rarely complained, she was experiencing ...

Mary’s celebration of life will be held at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Ames Iowa, on April 25, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. There will be a lunch following the mass in the church basement. We ...

Judith “Judy” A. Sanders, 82, died Friday, April 4, 2025, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita, Kan., following a brief illness. Visitation will begin at 5: ...

She was an active member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and the Muskingum County Women’s Democratic Club. Marilyn loved her dogs, antiques, and vacationing often at Red Bay Ontario Canada.

In a bioethics seminar a few weeks ago, during a discussion of whether Aristotelian epistemology strongly influenced the Catholic Church, my mind wandered back to a discussion in a previous class ...