In 1893 he founded the Revue Thomiste and later became professor of moral philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Henri Daniel-Rops wrote that it was rumored that President Raymond Poincaré asked Léon-Adolphe Cardinal Amette, Archbishop of Paris, for a reply to Pope Benedict XV's peace proposals, and that Amette passed the request along to Sertillanges; in any event, Amette gave his imprimatur to this reply on 5 December 1917, five days before it was made public.

"[3] His scholarly work was concerned with the moral theory of Thomas Aquinas.

What Jesus Saw from the Cross is a spiritual work that drew upon the time Sertillanges spent living in Jerusalem.

by Sr Pascale-Dominique Nau, OP [1] Articles Works in English translation