God grant eternal rest to Dr. Raph McInerny, a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame who was an avid reader of Chesterton, calling him “an author in love with the English language.” Indeed, he taught me to reread both Thomas Aquinas and Chesterton. Much could be said of him, but Fr. James V Schall has a much better article here about the life and legacy of this wise man. 
McInerny introduced many of us to Aquinas. Not that we had not read him before, but McInerny gave us the greater view. I still recall the sudden realization that I had on reading something in McInerny about how philosophy and revelation are related. There were things in revelation that could also be known by reason, a fact that suggested the sources of reason and revelation knew each other
