The Universal Authority of St. Thomas Aquinas
Bishop Barron, while calling himself a Thomist, decries the “closed Thomism” of the past.


In the post-conciliar age, there is often a tendency to look to the times preceding the Second Vatican Council and find attitudes that we can blame the whole crisis on. This is not an attitude unique to those who seek to save the Council from the “Spirit of the Council”; it is also found among traditionalists, who I believe don’t wish to seem unhinged by pretending that all our problems began in…