It’s been three years since I first discovered and seriously personally studied the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and I can happily say that I am far from really scratching the surface. The Angelic Doctor has this awe-inspiring gift of deep insight when it comes to philosophical and theological truths; this great awareness of both the metaphysics of the cosmos and the infinite divine power and love that moves the planets, of both what things are in themselves and He Who Is, of the words that come from the wisdom of antiquity and the Word that breathes forth Love, Who is the Logos of God through Which the Father expresses His design in creation and through Which the Father recreates us in redemption. In short, Aquinas’s thought is this one, big, wholesome vision of God, our First Cause and Last End, and His mysterious and astonishing relationship with the universe that one cannot really claim to be an “expert” when it comes to his teachings (one can have a specialty in

  A deep, philosophical “sex talk” these days cannot be done easily. Most of the time, when we talk about sex or sexuality, we either crack jokes about it or, if we want to be serious, we try not to talk about the “deeper stuff” in order to avoid offending other people. If we want to go dense and technical about it, we do it through using scientific or medical language. Besides that, there’s nothing left with discussing sex. Why is that? The “Hyper-relativizing” of sex           My diagnosis as to why that is is because sex and sexuality is perceived by many as something very private, something “so close” to them, something so hardwired into their identity that it is something that you just can’t converse about with other people. It’s like that birthmark or scar or wound that one is embarrassed about: you just don’t show it to others, right ? This is why sexual activity normally isn’t done while one is exposed in public (unless you’re filming a pornographic film, which, in my view,