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SIGNS OF HOPE
Dr. McLean on the State of Catholic Higher Education 45 Years After Land O’Lakes
In the September issue of Legatus Magazine, Thomas Aquinas College President Michael F. McLean surveys the state of Catholic higher education 45 years after the publication of the Land O’Lakes Statement, which severed most Catholic colleges and universities from the intellectual tradition and authority of the Church. The article begins:
“The 1960s was a time of great tumult in the United States — one that had devastating effects on the country’s institutions and mores....
“Catholic colleges were not immune to these influences. Venerable institutions that for many scores of years had faithfully passed on the intellectual patrimony of the Church began to adopt the diluted curricula, methods, and aims of their secular counterparts. Not only was campus life at many of these institutions giving way to the permissiveness of the time, but a long-standing commitment to Catholic liberal education was quickly disappearing.”
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NATIONWIDE HONOR ROLL
Alumni Educators’ High Schools Named Best in Nation
The Cardinal Newman Society has issued its 2012-2013 Catholic High School Honor Roll, recognizing “excellence in Catholic identity, academics and civic education at Catholic high schools across the United States.” To make the list, the Society explains, schools must have “an institutional commitment to providing a truly integrated and faithful Catholic education across all disciplines and in all areas of student activities.”
Notably, three of the just 50 schools honored on this year’s list are headed by Thomas Aquinas College alumni.
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See the Honor Roll
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RECENT LECTURES
Fr. Spitzer on Physics and Atheism,
Dr. Letteney on History & Liberal Education
The 2012-13 St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series is under way! Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, recently came to campus to speak on the subject, “On the Existence of God and Contemporary Physics: A Response to the So-Called New Atheism.”
Just weeks before, to inaugurate the new year, a member of the College’s teaching faculty, Dr. Michael J. Letteney (’88), delivered the opening lecture, “History and Catholic Liberal Education.”
Audio of Fr. Spitzer’s Lecture
Text of Dr. Letteney’s Lecture
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Rev. Robert
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FAITH IN ACTION
Three New Alumnae Sisters!
On the Feast of the Assumption (August 15), Erika Brown (’11) entered the candidacy program of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart in Alhambra, Calif. Then, less than two weeks later, on August 28, Elisabeth Sedler (’09) entered the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor, Mich.; soon thereafter she moved into the Order’s new house, St. Felix Oratory in Huntington, Ind. Lastly, on September 15, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, Sr. Gina Marie Eid (’08) received her habit and new religious name — Sr. Sophia — as a member of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, in Gower, Mo.
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The Faith in Action Blog
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Sr. Sophia Eid, OSB (’08), at her investiture with fellow alumna
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PARTNERS & AMBASSADORS
Introducing the Thomas Aquinas College Parents’ Association
Thomas Aquinas College is grateful to the parents and grandparents of its students for engendering in these young people the habits of mind and soul that dispose them to its unique program of Catholic liberal education. In recognition of this partnership, the College is establishing a formal association of parents and grandparents.
The Parents’ Association consists of all those whose children or grandchildren are students or alumni of Thomas Aquinas College. Its purpose is to support, promote, and pray for the mission of the College by helping in its efforts to provide a program of Catholic liberal education for its students. The experience of parents, and the trust they show to the College by sending us their most precious gifts, their children, make them great ambassadors for Thomas Aquinas College.
Learn More about the Parents’ Association
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