Benefactors

At their Friday, November 6, conference, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will consider Thomas Aquinas College’s petition for a writ of certiorari in its challenge of the HHS contraception mandate. The justices will also consider other lawsuits against the mandate, which seeks to compel Catholic religious institutions to facilitate free contraceptive, abortifacient, and sterilization coverage for their employees.

Today marks the 90th birthday of Thomas Aquinas College’s beloved Jesuit chaplain, Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. To celebrate the occasion, the community surprised Fr. Buckley at lunchtime with a gift of a new CD player, several discs, a cake, and the singing of “Happy Birthday.”

In a letter filed on Wednesday, September 30, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States, endorsed Thomas Aquinas College’s effort to bring its challenge of the HHS Mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court.

For the last year, students at Thomas Aquinas College have studied around the classroom tables in St. Gladys Hall — and they have met for dances and other events in the adjacent Fritz B. and Gladys C. Burns Plaza — but the building was not truly complete. Only on Friday, with the unveiling and blessing of a new statue of the building’s patroness, is St. Gladys Hall now truly finished, a permanent and beloved fixture on the Thomas Aquinas College campus.

On Friday afternoon, incense filled the air, holy water softened the ground, and four spades pierced the soil at the site of Thomas Aquinas College’s forthcoming lecture and concert building, St. Cecilia Hall.

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“Marvel at the growing prestige of Thomas Aquinas College,” writes Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, in his most recent “News and Notes” column. The College, he adds, is “a thoroughly Catholic institution that confounds modern academia with its traditional Great Books program!”

For the first time since Thomas Aquinas College Founding President Ronald P. McArthur established The Aquinas Review in 1994, the scholarly journal is fully available online. A complete archive of back issues is now accessible, free of charge, via the College’s website.