Convocation 2022:
New Year, New Students & Old Friends
Two alumni priests returned to Thomas Aquinas College in August to help mark the start of the new academic year — the 52nd in California and the 4th in New England.
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Princeton Review 2023 Guide Gives TAC Top Ratings
Thomas Aquinas College continues to provide one of the best undergraduate educations in the country, according to latest edition of The Princeton Review.
Dr. O’Reilly Confronts “New Atheism” in Opening Lectures
The College’s new president, Dr. Paul J. O’Reilly, presented this year’s opening lecture on both campuses: “What the New Atheists Can Teach Us About Our Program.”
Five Thomas Aquinas College students, representing both campuses, traveled to New Mexico this summer to help construct the forthcoming Saint Kateri Rosary Walk.
An new book by California tutor Dr. Ryan Brady guides readers through St. Thomas Aquinas’s teachings on reason, will, conscience, virtue, and the natural law.
What began as a small student choir at Thomas Aquinas College in late 2017 has become Floriani, a highly sought-after men’s vocal ensemble — dedicated to preserving the Church’s heritage of sacred music — which performs both nationwide and overseas.
The Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey welcomed their newest postulants on August 27, and among them were four Thomas Aquinas College alumni, including Patrick Cross (’14), who is foregoing a successful career in political cartooning to pursue his vocation.
Alumnus videographer Jacob Schmiedicke (’09) has brought the story of Irish advocate Daniel O’Connell to life in a new independent film, The Liberator, produced in collaboration numerous TAC alumni and friends.
August 20 Mother of Marienel (Kaufman ’92), Bernadette (Goyette ’95), and Regina (Sweeney ’97); grandmother of Liam (’21), Therese (’22), and Angela Goyette (’23) and Catharine (’23) and Madeleine Sweeney (’25)