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“Coming back to teach here feels like a homecoming,” says Dr. Scott Strader, a member of the Class of 1997 who is, indeed, returning to his alma mater — but only after a 23-year absence that brought him to Iraq and Japan as an officer of the United States Navy, to Rome as a graduate student, and from agnosticism to the Catholic faith.

Dr. Strader’s return to the College may not have followed a predictable route, but, then, neither did his arrival as a student. Scott grew up as a Baptist Christian in rural Indiana, but he decidedly left his Christian faith as a young teenager.

“I had Marcus Berquist for his last class, for Junior Theology,” says Dr. John McCarthy (’11), remembering the late Thomas Aquinas College co-founder and tutor whose influence would help lead him to one day become an educator himself. “He had intellectual charity. He did a lot of good through sharing his education. It was inspiring.”

Dr. Henry Joseph Zeiter, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and uncle, passed peacefully into Eternal Life early Sunday, December 20, 2020. He died of congestive heart failure in his Lodi home, and having said goodbye to his children and grandchildren in the previous days, he took his last breath with his wife, Carol, and daughter Suzie beside him holding his hand. He was 86 years old.

A century-old former gymnasium — with a wide-open floor plan and a suspended running track encircling the interior — has become the hub of student life at Thomas Aquinas College, New England, thanks to the generosity of the College’s benefactors.

Note: The Most Rev. Robert Joseph McManus, S.T.D., Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, was the 2020 Convocation Speaker at Thomas Aquinas College, New England.

In your homily at the 2019 Convocation Mass on our New England campus, you focused on the words of the Psalmist, “renew the face of the earth.” What part can Catholic education play in this important calling?

Note: Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem. (’94), a professor of philosophy at St. Michael’s Abbey Seminary, was the 2020 Convocation Speaker at Thomas Aquinas College, California.

For the better part of two decades, rising high school seniors from across the U.S. and the world have come to Thomas Aquinas College for two weeks each summer with one thought on their minds: Do I want to spend my next four years here? Ever since the College opened its East Coast campus in 2019, they have also had an additional question to consider: California or New England?

Although the first semester of Thomas Aquinas College’s 2020-21 academic year included many more challenges than usual, students and faculty carried on with the essential work of Catholic liberal education. As they read and discussed their way through the College’s classical curriculum, they encountered deeper truths and ever more of the connections that unify the disciplines. Below is a list of a few highlights, as expressed by members of each class, from the recently completed fall semester.

Years before Thomas Aquinas College came to New England, its then president, Dr. Thomas E. Dillon was overseeing the construction of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel on the California campus. At the same time, Rev.

On Thursday evening workers installed the crowning jewel of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College, New England.