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Aquinas on Anger in a Time of Political Violence, by Daniel B. Gallagher – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Aquinas on Anger in a Time of Political Violence, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Why the ‘Good Bishops’ Keep Disappointing the Faithful, by Phil Lawler

September 15, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Should Herald The End Of The American Left, by John Daniel Davidson

September 15, 2025

Saint Thomas Aquinas by Adam Elsheimer, 1605 [Petworth House (National Trust), West Sussex, England]

By Daniel B. Gallagher, The Catholic Thing, September 15, 2025

Daniel B. Gallagher lectures in philosophy and literature at Ralston College. He previously served as a Latin Secretary to Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.

Surrounded by a culture of mounting political violence, we all must feel at least a modicum of anger. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox is to be commended for admitting it on Friday: “Over the last 48 hours, I have been as angry as I have ever been. . .and as anger pushed me to the brink, it was actually Charlie (Kirk)’s words that pulled me back. . . .Charlie said, ‘When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.’”

Without knowing it, the late Mr. Kirk recapitulated the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas, which, to put it prosaically, is, “it’s not whether you feel anger, it’s what you do with it.”

Anger was by far the most complex “passion of the soul” or “emotion” (passio animae) for Aquinas. Thomas teaches that anger entails both sadness and hope, that its object is a mixture of good and evil, and that it involves both the irascible and the concupiscible appetites. …

Aquinas on Anger in a Time of Political Violence, by Daniel B. Gallagher

Why the ‘Good Bishops’ Keep Disappointing the Faithful, by Phil Lawler

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Should Herald The End Of The American Left, by John Daniel Davidson

By Daniel B. Gallagher, The Catholic Thing, September 15, 2025

Surrounded by a culture of mounting political violence, we all must feel at least a modicum of anger. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t.

Without knowing it, the late Mr. Kirk recapitulated the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas, which, to put it prosaically, is, “it’s not whether you feel anger, it’s what you do with it.”

Anger was by far the most complex “passion of the soul” or “emotion” (passio animae) for Aquinas. Thomas teaches that anger entails both sadness and hope, that its object is a mixture of good and evil, and that it involves both the irascible and the concupiscible appetites. …

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