Research Starting Points (External Links)

Research Starting Points (External Links)

After years of absence, our "Link Library" is back! When Blogger switched to the "new" Blogger years back, our massive link library, which we had on our sidebar, got seriously distorted. Moreover, the sheer number of individual links made it impractical for us to keep them updated, and so a good percentage of them ended up being dead links. Ultimately, we decided it was better to take the whole thing down. 

In the years since, we have received emails from readers who said that they missed the link library because they used it as a starting point for their own research.  Our goal is for Ite ad Thomam to become a regular hub for traditional Catholic researchers.  We are honored that you would use our site as a starting point for your own research, and we would like again to live up to that expectation.  

So we decided to put our Link Library back up, both on the sidebar and as a stand-alone page (see tabs above); it is in a significantly reduced, and therefore more manageable, form, and has new formatting (updated html code).   We will be working on it on an on-going basis, but we're glad to have at least the most basic part of it back.  Eventually we will add a section on valuable pdfs that are available across the internet.

Please feel free to email us links to include.  Enjoy!

The Genealogy of St. Joseph, According to Cornelius a Lapide

The Genealogy of St. Joseph, According to Cornelius a Lapide

Link to: EL ATELIER DE SAN JOSÉ: GENEALOGÍA DE SAN JOSÉ SEGÚN CORNELIO A. LÁPIDE « Radio Cristiandad

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Rorate-Caeli on TLM-Only Priests

Rorate-Caeli on TLM-Only Priests

Link to: RORATE CÆLI: Can one be a diocesan priest and celebrate the traditional Mass exclusively? A true motivational example.

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Casa Santa Lidia: The trouble with Kant: couldn't have said it better myself

Casa Santa Lidia: The trouble with Kant: couldn't have said it better myself

Link to: Casa Santa Lidia: The trouble with Kant: couldn't have said it better myself:

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Msgr. Gherardini: The Post-Council, The Natural Son of the Council

Msgr. Gherardini: The Post-Council, The Natural Son of the Council

Link to: Dici: "Post-Council, the natural son of the Council"

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On the Limited Practical Authority of the Pope

On the Limited Practical Authority of the Pope

Link to: The Pittsford Perennialist: "Just a Pope"


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Mel Gibson's Maccabee film condemned by ADL | Inside Movies | EW.com

Mel Gibson's Maccabee film condemned by ADL | Inside Movies | EW.com

Link to: Mel Gibson's Maccabee film condemned by ADL | Inside Movies | EW.com:

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Recent SSPX-Rome Talks: Get Accurate Information from Rorate-Caeli

Recent SSPX-Rome Talks: Get Accurate Information from Rorate-Caeli

Link to: RORATE CÆLI: "COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE HOLY SEE: MEETING BETWEEN THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH AND THE FRATERNITY OF SAINT PIUS X"

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English Bishops Restore Abstinence from Meat on All Fridays

English Bishops Restore Abstinence from Meat on All Fridays

Link to: ZENIT - English Bishop on Friday Penance.

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Catholic Culture : On The News : Why do Catholics have big families?

Catholic Culture : On The News : Why do Catholics have big families?

Link to: Catholic Culture : "Why do Catholics have big families?"

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Our Parish: Padre Romo and the Catholic Remnant of Mexico

Our Parish: Padre Romo and the Catholic Remnant of Mexico

Link to The Remnant.

Tolkien and the New Mass

Tolkien and the New Mass

Link to: Bregwin: Tolkien e la Messa antica.
(Italian Blog Post - Use Translator)


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Klaus Gamber on Liturgical Orientation

Klaus Gamber on Liturgical Orientation

Link to: RORATE CÆLI: ...propterea exaltabit caput.:

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Coming Soon: Bucketloads of New Doctors of the Church?

Coming Soon: Bucketloads of New Doctors of the Church?

The Candidates:

- Saint John of Avila
- Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
- Saint Bernardine of Siena
- Saint Thomas of Villanova
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- Saint John Bosco
- Saints Cyril and Methodius
- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
- Saint Bridget of Sweden

- Saint Gertrude of Helfta
- Saint Vincent de Paul

- Saint Hildegard of Bingen
- Saint Veronica Giuliani
- Saint Gregory of Narek
- Saint Lorenzo Giustiniani
- Saint Antonino of Florence
- Blessed Julian of Norwich

Link to "Aliens in This World: Coming Soon: Bucketloads of New Doctors of the Church?"
Link to the Chiesa article, which includes a list of seventeen candidates.

Comments on Freddoso's Translation of the Summa's Treatise on Human Nature

Comments on Freddoso's Translation of the Summa's Treatise on Human Nature

Link to Thomistica.net, "Comments on Freddoso's Translation of the Summa's Treatise on Human Nature."
Link to item on St. Augustine Press.

Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Conference, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, October 13-15

Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ Conference, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, October 13-15

Don Paco will be among the presenters:

Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo (Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara), “The Reception of Averroes’s Abstractionist Theory of Intentionality in the Latin West.” Abstract: Recent scholarship has paid renewed attention to the medieval problem of intentionality and the internal senses, especially within the texts of Aquinas and Avicenna. Yet less attention has been paid to the influence of Averroes and St. Albert the Great in the process of transmission between Avicenna and Aquinas. This paper aims to fill that lacuna by focusing on Averroes’ abstractionist contribution to the debate and especially on St. Albert’s pivotal role in its reception in the Latin West. The essay is divided into three parts. Part One briefly reviews the polemic among the Arabs. On the one hand, Avicenna—as is well documented—posited principles of interior sense perception that result in a total of five interior senses, which are distinct on the basis of their objects: the common sense and the retentive imagination have ‘images’ as their objects, the estimative and memorative faculties have ‘intentions’ as their objects, and the compositive imagination has the role of joining images and intentions. On the other hand, Averroes rejected Avicenna’s principles, reduced the number of interior senses to four, and assigned to each the role of abstracting an ‘intention’ from an ‘image’. Part Two breaks new ground by examining St. Albert’s reception and assimilation of the two divergent Arabic theories, which result in a clever amalgam between Avicenna’s overall principles and framework and Averroes’ abstractionist account. Part Three closes the paper by taking a fresh look at Aquinas in light of the debate among his predecessors.

Link to: Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’* 

Call for Papers: Kalamazoo's International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2012)

Call for Papers: Kalamazoo's International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2012)

Link to: "Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2012)" - News items - thomistica.net - Tommaso d'Aquino Newsletter and RSS Newsfeed

Una Voce Ventura Conference at Thomas Aquinas College

Una Voce Ventura Conference at Thomas Aquinas College

Link to: RORATE CÆLI: Events: Una Voce Ventura Conference at Thomas Aquinas College

Archbishop Chaput: Media Not Trustworthy on Religion

Archbishop Chaput: Media Not Trustworthy on Religion

Link to: Archbishop: MSNBC, CNN, New York Times Newsweek ‘Not Trustworthy’ When it Comes to Religion | TheBlaze.com

SSPX Summoned to Rome, September 14

SSPX Summoned to Rome, September 14

Link to Rorate Caeli post.