Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse Altar and reliquary of St Thomas Aquinas by Didier Descouens
Thomas Griffin 1/28/26 (For The Daily Signal)
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Many people believe that faith and reason are incompatible. Faith is for those who blindly trust what their religion tells them or what they feel is true. Reason is what we have proof for; it’s for the logical ones, and faith is for the childish and weak.
This is an over-characterization, but there is truth to the generalization. The truth here lies in the fact that this mindset is prevalent, but not that it is valid.
Every year, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) on Jan. 28. Over the course of his lifetime, Aquinas wrote over 8 million words. He was a Dominican priest who spent hours each day in prayer and study. His life was devoted to God and to writing about the truth. Aquinas was groundbreaking in many ways because he was able to show the validity of church doctrine through the use of reason.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas 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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