What does it mean to say that creatures are good? According to St. Thomas Aquinas, we find many different senses and kinds of goodness in the created world. This talk explores these many goodnesses of creatures and explains why all of them are radically different from the goodness of God.

The 2024 Aquinas Lecture at Blackfriars, Cambridge was delivered by Fr. Philip-Neri Reese on Monday 29th January, 2024. You can watch the full video of the lecture here.