Devout Humanism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Devout Humanism ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Without contemplation, St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica” is seen as a great stained-glass window, but from the outside. But with contemplation, his masterwork is seen, as if from the inside, iridescent with all the brilliance with which he was able to write, thanks to the Holy Spirit who guided his every word and his every sentence. Before going to the Franciscan novitiate to try my vocation, I went on a grand tour of the Swiss Alps instead…