I have an itty bitty problem when I hear people refer to Rick Santorum as a devout Catholic. St. Thomas Aquinas is considered the most influential philosopher in the history of the HRCC and is the patron of all Catholic educational establishments. This is the sum of Aquinas’ logic on the subject of reason versus faith.

Supernatural revelation (faith) and natural revelation (reason) are complementary rather than contradictory in nature, for they pertain to the same unity: truth.

Natural revelation is information that any human has access to, in other words, science and reason. Supernatural revelation is faith, taught in the Scriptures. Aquinas said the two had to be complementary for them to both be true. That means that as science and reason expand and change over time as human knowledge grows, so must faith if if that faith becomes other than complementary to reason.

When Rick Santorum speaks about science and faith it’s obvious his views could not disagree more with the teachings of Aquinas, so that means Santorum is essentially a heretic, preaching his own rogue version of the faith. That he gets referred to as devout Catholic is a disgrace. He must have slept through all his Catechism classes.