Divus Thomas dixit

The Sublime (I hesitate slightly over translating Divus as divine) Thomas.

There is a story of an oral examination in Rome. The seminarian opens his presentation "Divus Thomas dixit" and repeats this as a justification throughout. The professor is livid and harrangues him for almost an hour. Do you have no thoughts of your own? Are there no other theologians? There he says, what do you say now?

The answer comes back,

Divus Thomas Dixit.

Incidentally, the present Pope, as an Augustinian, was the first Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in centuries who was not a Thomist.