St. Albert the Great: Champion of Faith and Reason

Even while he was still alive, the Dominican friar Albert of Cologne was called Magnus-"the Great"-and his contemporaries said he simply knew all there was to know. He was a "Renaissance man" two centuries before the Renaissance: a teacher and preacher; a scientist, theologian, and philosopher; a shrewd shephered and an unflinching defender of the Faith.

Yet too few Catholic know about him today, in part because his star has been outshone by his famous student, Thomas Aquinas. In St. Albert ...