Two noteworthy news items:

First, this weekend marks the 250th anniversary of W. A. Mozart's birth. Cardinal Schonborn has been involved in several of the celebrations hosted in Austria to commemorate the occasion, blessing Mozart's favorite residence in Vienna yesterday, for instance.

The Cardinal, like Pope Benedict XVI, is a great admirer of Mozart's music, and has written on it several times in German.

Here is the official website for the "Year of Mozart".

Also, today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the preeminent theologian of the Dominican Order. Cardinal Schonborn, in addition to being a member of this order, is also a great master of Thomistic philosophy. G. K. Chesterton's phenomenal biography of the "Angelic Doctor" is available online here.

In 2002, Cardinal Schonborn delivered a commencement address at Thomas Aquinas College in Southern California which contains an excellent Thomistic reflection.