Last Friday evening, to honor the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s sixth and final apparition at Fatima, a group of students met up with chaplains Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P., and Rev. David Gonzalez, O.Praem., for a candlelight procession around the campus.

The group began at the Angelus bell outside St. Joseph Commons, processed down to the Lourdes Grotto on the lower campus, and concluded in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Marking the culmination of a four-year legal effort that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. government on Friday agreed to a settlement that will permanently exempt Thomas Aquinas College from the so-called HHS Contraceptive Mandate of the Affordable Care Act.

Defending the Vulnerable

Note: Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, S.V., Superior General of the Sisters of Life, served as the College’s 2017 Commencement Speaker.

What is the charism of the Sisters of Life?

“We Should Have a Peaceful
Confidence about the Truth”

Note: At the College’s 2017 Commencement exercises, Rev. Paul Scalia, Episcopal Vicar for Clergy in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, served as the principal celebrant and homilist at the Baccalaureate Mass.

Audio

On Saturday, Thomas Aquinas College President Michael F. McLean appeared on EWTN’s Call Me Catholic radio program, broadcasting live from the Christ Cathedral in Orange County, California. In a wide-ranging interview, he and host Peggy Normandin discussed the school’s unique program of Catholic liberal education. Audio of the interview is available below in both streaming and downloadable formats.

By  Dr. John J. Goyette
Dean, Thomas Aquinas College

Note: The following remarks are adapted from Dean Goyette’s report to the Board of Governors at its May 12, 2017, meeting. They are part of an ongoing series of talks about why the College includes certain texts in its curriculum.

On August 21 some 102 freshmen from across the United States and abroad — the Class of 2021 — will begin their four years of study at Thomas Aquinas College. Welcoming the students for the start of the academic year will be the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, S.T.L., D.D., Archbishop of Oklahoma City, who will offer the Convocation Mass of the Holy Spirit and preside over the matriculation ceremony.

“One of the greatest joys we experience on the Board is confidence that the Faith is lived, taught, and discussed daily by our students,” says Bernarda Neal, a member of the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors.