I agree that God doesn’t will evil and suffering in the sense you say. I agree with Thomas Aquinas that so called accidents are under God’s providence even though He doesn’t directly cause them. He permits them. Knowing that God is in control brings hope to a person. If He brings you to it He’ll bring you through it. Just ask the Franciscan Friar above who was in a car accident who says there are no accidents. God works everything according to the counsel of His will. Without God being in control and holding one’s future in His hands we are without hope. Your view brings despair to the lives of people. God is in control and will bring good out of evil and suffering. What hope I have being under the wings of my Mother Hen. You’re misunderstanding and not reading Aquinas correctly. Catholics hold to both sides of the paradox of predestination and free will. In the Catholic Handbook of Apologetics by Philosophers Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli it states:
However, as Thomas Aquinas states God doesn’t directly cause evil and suffering but PERMITS it.