Brief profiles of Thomistic journals

James Miguez provides the following over at the Thomistic group at Yahoo:

The oldest Thomist journal is the Divus Thomas, an Italian philosophical review founded in Piacenza in 1879 by the Lazarist Albert Barberis (1847-1896). The thomist revival began of course in Italy under the guidance of Pope Leo XIII and his associates in Italy who benefitted from many exiled thomists after the French Revolution. This traditional journal which had been the organ of neo-Scholasticism in Italy for many years was shut down in the confusion of Vatican II. From 1962 to 1992 the journal was not published, but in that same year, Padre Guiseppe Perini, C.M., who had been associated with the Angelicum and the Collegio Alberoni (where the Divus Thomas was first published) started the journal up again, with the new location being the Domincan House of Philosophical Studies in Bologna. Perini, who believed in thomism as an "intergal realism" had been influenced mostly be his Domincan teachers at the Angelicum (including Pere Garrigou Lagrange) and by his reading of Cursus philosophicus of John of St. Thomas.

The second the oldest journal is the French journal, Revue thomiste, which was founded in 1893 under the momentum of the Leonine revival and through the early efforts of the Domincan preacher Lacordaire (who refounded the Domincans in France after the revolution disbanded them). It took forty years for Lacordaire just to train a relatively few Domincans who were competent in thomism and the study of Aquinas. Even then it was difficult to maintain an academic journal because the French anti-clericals kept exiling the religious of France. The early names associated with this journal are Domincans Thomas Coconnier, Pierre Mandonnet and Ambroise Gardeil, and also A.-D. Sertillanges. The journal however had problems initiated by the modernist crisis and through the editor's associations with l'Action française. Secure footing was not found until the young Marie-Michel Labourdette (who studied under Garrigou Lagrange at the Angelicum) took over as editor and began the journal's long collaboration with Jacques Maritain and his disciples.

The Revue neoscholastique de philosophie was founded in 1894 at Louvain, Belgium.

The Rivista Italiana di filosofia neoscolastica in 1909 at Milan, Italy.

In Spain, the Ciencia Tomista was founded by the Spanish Dominicans in 1910.

Next came the Angelicum in Rome in 1924; The Modern Schoolman in 1925 by the Jesuits at the University of St. Louis; New Scholasticism in 1927 at the Catholic University of America (this journal becomes the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly in 1989); The Thomist in Washington in 1939 by Dominican Fathers Province of St. Joseph; also there is the Recherches de theologie ancienne et medievale (Mont Cesar), the Revue des sciences philosophique et theologique (Paris) as well as general journals like Medieval Studies (Toronto).