Please pray for the repose of a dear friend and generous benefactor of the College, Kathleen Adell Burke. Miss Burke died Sunday evening, after receiving the Anointing of the Sick earlier in the day, at an Orange County hospital near her home in Los Alamitos, California.

Some much-needed rain fell in Southern California today — a blessing for the region, but a minor obstacle for some 260 Thomas Aquinas College students who will be heading to San Francisco tonight for the Walk for Life West Coast. Due to the weather and rush-hour traffic, the four buses that were supposed to pick up students at 3:45 this afternoon have been delayed until sometime later this evening.

Although best known throughout the world as the author of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, who passed away last Thursday, is remembered at Thomas Aquinas College as a dear friend and generous benefactor with a great love for Catholic liberal education. “Bill had a deep faith, which manifested itself both in his work and in his support of the College,” says President Michael F. McLean. “He was keenly aware of the spiritual warfare that surrounds us, as well as its eternal implications for each of our souls.”

Joining Catholic and other Christian educators across the United States, Thomas Aquinas College has signed onto an amici curiae brief in the case of Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. The case, which the U.S.

“We’re in a Very Tough Time,
but it’s a Good Time for the Battle”

Note: The Most Rev. Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, was Thomas Aquinas College’s 2016 Convocation Speaker.

Q: Were you surprised by your appointment to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles?

Dear Friend,

There are many ways by which you can participate in the life of Thomas Aquinas College and can help educate young men and women in the intellectual and moral tradition of the Catholic Church. Two ways come to mind at this time of the year.

A perennial top performer in Kiplinger Personal Finance’s annual college rankings, Thomas Aquinas College has jumped several spots — into the Top 10 Best Values in U.S. Colleges, or as the magazine describes it, “the crème de la crème” of its newly published guide, Top 300 Best College Values of 2017.

By the main door of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, the chaplains of Thomas Aquinas College maintain a collections box marked “for the missions,” the proceeds of which go to the Missionaries of Charity in Nairobi, Kenya, under the care of Rev. Raymond Walsh, M.C. Periodically Fr. Ray sends letters to College Chaplain Rev. Cornelius M.

Dear Friend,

Many of the dear friends who have given generously to Thomas Aquinas College and its students over the last year gathered in downtown Los Angeles on December 4 for the annual Christmas Dinner. There they enjoyed excellent food, fine music, and good company.