Don't know why it is so important to hew to St. Thomas or even the Great Thomas. As an heir of Plato and Aristotle, he acquiesced to the essence fallacy and never escaped the trap of dualism. This led to a distortion of our Christian faith. Some modern philosophers and theologians have much better insights. I prefer the thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce and Donald Gelpi, S.J., whom I discovered during a Sabbatical at the Jesuit School, in Berkely. They offer light for our day and escape the merciless position of the people attacking Pope Francis.