Sanctifying Truth

12 Sanctifying Truth Friendship, as Aquinas himself teaches, arises from a mutual sharing of something. Father Ryan Connors, a priest of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, has shared his love for Saint Thomas’s teachings with me, his students, and his parishio- ners. This good and courageous priest also demon- strates the truthfulness of what Aquinas says about friendship, “it is only with a friend that a friend is friendly” ( Summa theologiae II-II, q. 23, art. 1). So at the completion of the fifth decade of my priesthood, I gladly dedicate this book to Father Connors in the first of his.