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Basic Charter of
the Western St. Thomas Aquinas Foundation
 The
Western St. Thomas Aquinas Foundation, hereafter referred to as
WESTAF, is a restricted account owned and controlled by the Western
Dominican Province, U.S.A., and managed by the said Province
according to its own present and future regulations governing its
own restricted accounts in general.
WESTAF is committed to collecting and
holding money as capital, and to using the interest there from
either to increase the capital further or to help any Dominican
Father(s) or Brother(s) of the Western Dominican Province, U.S.A.,
to promote the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas by:
establishing an Aquinas Chair for the practical application
of the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas to contemporary problems
in accord with the magisterium of the Church;
providing the texts of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas to
interested Dominican Fathers and Brothers, and to other worthy
students who cannot afford them;
conducting adult education seminars for the guided reading
of one or the other work of St. Thomas Aquinas himself;
writing articles on St. Thomas Aquinas or on his doctrine
for popular publications and scholarly journals;
underwriting those courses and portions of courses in the
Western Dominican seminary which cover the teachings of St.
Thomas Aquinas;
sponsoring visiting lecturers, meetings for scholars or
popular conferences concerned with useful applications of St.
Thomas Aquinas' doctrine to contemporary problems;
holding workshops for priests to update their theology by
applying the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas to solve the
social, philosophical, theological and scriptural problems that
undermine or hinder their ministry;
giving retreats based on Catholic spirituality as taught by
St. Thomas Aquinas;
training others to promote the teachings of St. Thomas
Aquinas in a relevant and appealing way;
working on the Leonine Commission (that group within the
Order of Preachers founded in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII to restore
the original Latin wording of all the works of St. Thomas
Aquinas through the study of the remaining Latin medieval
manuscripts);
promoting other activities similarly useful in increasing
the influence of St. Thomas Aquinas' teachings in society.
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