On Thursday evening, in honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Chaplain Rev. Michael Chaberek, O.P., led a small group of students in a candlelight procession around the campus.

The group began at the Angelus bell outside St. Joseph Commons and processed down to the Lourdes Grotto on the lower campus.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!

The students of Thomas Aquinas College celebrated Mardi Gras a few days early this year with a dance in St. Joseph Commons on Saturday night. The event, which had the Chinese New Year as its theme, included student-produced entertainment, costumes, feasting, and much swing dancing:

One Friday evening each semester, groups of about 20 Thomas Aquinas College students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms across the campus for the All-College Seminar. Although separate, these groups engage in a single, common activity, namely, reading, analyzing, and discussing the same text, one that is not part of the College’s ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions.

This past weekend some 30 Thomas Aquinas College students enjoyed an educational tour of one of Los Angeles’ finest art museums, thanks to the generosity of College Governor Maria O. Grant.

Attorneys from the Jones Day law firm, which is representing Thomas Aquinas College in its legal challenge of the HHS contraceptive mandate, report that the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for the case on March 23.

On January 28, 2016, members of the Thomas Aquinas College community celebrated the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas with a fitting combination of prayer, scholarship, and fun — and a tribute to one of the College’s founders.

“How Does the Resurrection of Christ Illumine Human Reason? From Joseph Ratzinger to St. Thomas Aquinas”

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After the close of classes on Friday, January 22, more than 200 Thomas Aquinas College students departed for San Francisco and the 12th annual Walk for Life West Coast. They arrived late in the night at North Beach’s Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, where the Salesian fathers graciously offered them places to sleep. The next morning, they attended Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral offered by the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, before heading over to the Civic Center Plaza for the Walk.

After the close of classes on Friday, more than 200 Thomas Aquinas College students met up in the parking lot of St. Bernard Hall to begin their pilgrimage to San Francisco and the Walk for Life West Coast. They heard some encouraging words from April Shonnard (’16), who is leading this year’s trip, and listened to a supportive letter from a friend of the College, read by Admissions Director Jon Daly. They then prayed together and received a blessing from Head Chaplain Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P., before boarding three buses and numerous cars for the voyage north.