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Article: Aquinas on women.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 14, 2000
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If only he knew what we know ...
Traditionalists like to present St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274 A.D.) as the bulwark of unquestioning orthodoxy. He is the model for all theologians, "able to overturn the dangerous principles of the new order," to quote Pope Leo XIII. Was that not why Thomas was declared patron of Catholic universities, colleges and schools?
The message is: If we could only absorb Thomas' mental discipline, we would not be caught up in the woolly thinking of our modern age, like imagining women may one day preside over the Eucharist. But does this do justice to Thomas the mystic, the seeker, the revolutionary champion of troth?
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