“Oh, I admired some of these intellectuals without limits. Especially the princes of science, astrophysicists, pure mathematicians, and the like. But nothing had been done about the main question. The main question, as Walt Whitman had pointed out, was the death question.” (Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, Viking Press, 1974, 332).


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22 June, 2009FR DONALD COZZENS TO LECTURE IN AUSTRALIA JULY 2010

Donald Cozzens is Writer in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Theology at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He spent the 2001-2002 academic year as a scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and C...more »

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Aquinas has established a place of solitude and silence for individuals and groups. There are two dwellings - "La Neyliere" (generally for day groups)and "Mary MacKillop Hermitage" for those who want ...more »

18 February, 2009Fr Denis Minns op to give course at Aquinas Academy

Denis Minns is a Dominican friar, at present the Prior of the Dominican Community in Glebe. He has recently returned from Oxford, where, for the past ten years, he taught history and doctrine of the ...more »


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17 June, 2009JUNE 2009 REFLECTION: COME OUT!

We all have the potential to be grave-makers. We make graves for ourselves, we collude with others who make graves for us, we make graves for others. And so it goes. Jesus says to us all: "Come out...more »