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To mark the close the Year of Faith, Thomas Aquinas College recently hosted Rev. Robert Barron, who spoke on the subject “David Dancing Before the Ark: The Liturgical Theology Implicit in 2nd Samuel” as part of the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series.

Essays

• The Formation of the Catholic Mind
• Liberal Education & the Preservation of the Political Order
• The Roots of Modern Education
• The Study of St.

Following the Requiem Mass for Founding President Ronald P. McArthur on Friday, Thomas Aquinas College hosted a reception in St. Joseph Commons, at which the four of Dr. McArthur’s former colleagues offered eulogies. Text, audio, and video of the eulogies are available via the links below:

Henry Teichert was a successful businessman, a dedicated philanthropist, and a loyal benefactor of Thomas Aquinas College. He was also the father of four Thomas Aquinas College alumni and the grandfather of eleven, including the recently departed Rosie Grimm (’10).

Kiplinger, the business and personal-finance publisher, has ranked Thomas Aquinas College number 41 out of just 100 schools on its 2014 Best Private Colleges list, while also naming the College to its list of the Top 10 Best Values in Private Colleges Under $20K (net).

Four decades ago, Dr. Ronald P. McArthur made an enormous leap of faith. Leaving his home and a good job behind, he moved some 400 miles to become the founding president of Thomas Aquinas College — an institution which, at the time, had neither a campus, money, nor students. What it did have, however, was a promising vision, based on fidelity to the Church and a restoration of Catholic liberal education. That vision, sustained by Dr. McArthur’s deep faith, was more than enough to inspire what, to most, seemed his audacious gamble.

Catholic Guide Praises College for
“impressive intellectual rigor” and
“commitment to orthodox Catholicism”

Thomas Aquinas College is one of only 22 colleges nationwide recommended by The Cardinal Newman Society in its latest edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College, which was published on October 7.

One of three Thomas Aquinas College students who participated in this summer’s Crossroads pro-life walks across America, Sophie Macik (’15) describes the experience in a recent interview with From the Median on WHK Radio in her hometown of Cleveland.

Framing is under way for St. Gladys Hall! The College’s next classroom building is due to be complete in time for the start of the next academic year in August, 2014.

Looking out from the loggia of Our Lady of the Most Holy Chapel, a camera sweeps across the Thomas Aquinas College campus. The sun rises above the foothills surrounding the Los Padres National Forest, and a voice asks, What do I know and what do I not know?