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Remarks on “Murder in the Cathedral”

By Dr. Michael F. McLean
President, Thomas Aquinas College
Legatus-Aquinas Forum
March 24, 2012

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Commencement 2012

  • “Become the Saints for Whom the World is Waiting”
    Mother Assumpta Long Challenges Graduates at Commencement Ceremonies
     
  • Faithful Founders
    Mother Assumpta, Peter DeLuca, and John Neumayr Awarded College’s Highest Honor
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Governance

The Board of Governors is a self-perpetuating body entrusted with the task of supervising, controlling, and managing the affairs of Thomas Aquinas College in such a way as to achieve its end as outlined in the College’s founding document, A Proposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education.

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Summer 2012

  • An Open Letter to President Obama
  • From the Desk of the President
    Defending Our First Freedom
  • Master Class
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Prospective Tutors

Thomas Aquinas College aims to provide a Catholic liberal education. Our mission statement is A Proposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education, our founding and governing document.

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Fall 2012

  • Late Classmate Inspires Prayers for the Unborn
    Praying for and with Andrew “Kent” Moore (’14)
  • “Go to the School of St. Thomas”
    Bishop Cary, College Welcome Freshmen at Convocation 2012
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Winter 2013

  • Year of Faith
    College Strives to Live Out Holy Father’s Call to “Authentic and Renewed Conversion”
  • Commencement 2013
    Daniel Cardinal DiNardo to Serve as Speaker
  • From the Desk of the President
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Spring 2013

  • Habemus Papam!
    College Greets Announcement of Pope Francis with Cheers, Prayers
  • Year of Faith
    Working with the Church to Ensure Fidelity in the College’s Teaching
  • From the Desk of the President
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Cool Colleges

Reprinted with permission from Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different. © 2007 by Donald Asher, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA.

 

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Commencement 2013

A Celebration of Faith and Reason
Cardinal DiNardo Inspires College’s Largest Graduating Class

Faithful Fathers
Cardinal DiNardo and Fr. Buckley Awarded College’s Highest Honor

From the Desk of the President
Dr. McLean’s Remarks to the Class of 2013 at the President’s Dinner

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