It would be unfashionable for our gnashing, moralising and increasingly irrational elites to take heed of the teachings of St Thomas Aquinas. Born in the Kingdom of Sicily in the thirteenth century, St Thomas had perhaps the greatest theological career in the history of the Western world. In 1567, Pope Pius V proclaimed him a doctor of the church, elevating his celebration to equivalence with the four great fathers, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose and Gregory. It is Aquinas who is responsible for the formulation of much Church law, and it was the Church that carried the legal-philosophical inheritance of the ancient…