Here is a brief excerpt from an essay on Aquinas in the Seminaries:
For three decades now an infected seminary system has been sedulously vilifying the Angelic Doctor. To their mind, for good reason. Most theologians know well that this Common Doctor is the thick steel wall protecting the Faith against the seepage of Modernity. Tear it down, and the Faith is fatally exposed. That's not hyperbole, it's the Magisterium. After citing six hundred years of Pontifical praise for St. Thomas, Leo XIII concludes a section of Aeterni Patris with: " . . . while to these judgments of great Pontiffs on Thomas Aquinas comes the crowning testimony of Innocent VI: ‘His teaching above that of others . . . enjoys such an elegance of phraseology, a method of statement, a truth of proposition, that those who hold to it are never found swerving from the path of truth, and he who dares assail it will always be suspected of error.'" (Aeterni Patris, #16) As an intriguing aside the same encyclical reveals, "For it has come to light that there were not lacking among the leaders of heretical sects some who openly declared that, if the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas were only taken away, they could easily battle with all Catholic teachers, gain the victory, and abolish the Church. A vain hope indeed, but no vain testimony." Thirty years of priestly deprivation of St. Thomas give ringing confirmation to these Leonine monita.
An interesting bit of trivia from a little farther down which certainly appies to the Internet as a form of mass communication:
What a shock to the Canadian bishops when they asked Dr. Marshall McLuhan how they could better understand the modern communications revolution. He promptly responded, "Read St. Thomas Aquinas' De Spiritualibus Creaturis."
And from the final paragraph (the author speaks of priests because the essay is about seminaries, but it can apply to laity as well):
Priests must begin to lean their head upon the wisdom of St. Thomas as he so often leaned his head on the tabernacle. God gives man priests to guard the walls of the Sacred City of the Church. But they stand strong only when carrying the weaponry of Aquinas. If not, the City falls.