text: Thomas was indeed a great intellect.  But the issues that we face today as a people, as Catholics are not the world that Thomas lived in.  BTW---in Thomas' time everybody did not think that he was faithful to the church's teachings.  The bishop of Paris wanted to excommunicate him for heresy.  There were cardinals who wanted to destroy both the Franciscans and Dominicans because of the influence of their teaching, in the universities, especially at the University of Paris. At that time Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure [three saints] were teaching.  Oh, yes, I have studied the writings of both Aquinas and Bonaventure.
  
  But both of these Saints would acknowledge that God is the God of the living.  We live in a different world, much more complex than the Middle Ages, with a whole world [not just western Europe] about which to be concerned.  Pope Francis is well aware of what a world we live in---with the bad and the good.  Are you?