Thomas Griffin 8/30/24 (For National Catholic Register)
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As schools begin to reopen for the new academic year, it’s worth a look at holy ones who spent much of their lives teaching. Their witness and words can aid teaching endeavors today — for educators, parents and students.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is the exemplar of Catholic teaching. The great theologians of his time were actually known as doctors in sacred Scripture. According to the Thomistic historian and theologian Jean-Pierre Torrell, a person of this capacity of study and preaching would have to possess the following capacities and functions: “They must be ‘elevated’ by the eminence of their lives to be able to preach effectively, ‘enlightened’ in order to teach suitably, and ‘fortified’ so as to refute errors through disputation.”
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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