The Importance of Loving God with the Mind

  The Importance of Loving God with the Mind By Blackfriars Staff You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37). For most people, when going on retreat, the focus is on the movement of the...

Pursuit of Truth on Campus

  Pursuit of Truth on Campus By Blackfriars Staff The purpose of life is to know God. Period. That is St. Thomas Aquinas’ central claim in his Summa Contra Gentiles, and it was Fr. James Brent, O.P.’s central claim as he opened the Thomistic Institute’s Student...