The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (PUST), also known as the Angelicum in honor of its patron the Doctor AngelicusThomas Aquinas,[3] is located in the historic center of Rome, Italy. It is directly dependent on the Pope for its status as a pontifical university as outlined in the apostolic constitutionSapientia Christiana, which also clarifies the parameters of Church authority and academic freedom.[4] The Angelicum is administered by the CatholicOrder of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, and is a central locus of traditional Dominican Thomist theology and philosophy.