While passing through Stilesville, Ind., early this morning as part of a 3,000-mile trek on behalf of the unborn, Thomas Aquinas College student Andrew Kentigern (Kent) Moore (’14) was struck and killed by a passing vehicle. The College urgently requests prayers on his behalf, as well as for the consolation of his family and his fellow walkers.

Slideshow | Dr. McLean's Talk

“If you are what you should be,” begins the quotation from St. Catherine of Siena that the Thomas Aquinas College Class of 2012 has chosen as its own, “you will set the whole world on fire.”

This is the spirited ideal to which the Class of 2012 aspires as its members leave the campus to embrace the vocations, occupations, and apostolates to which Our Lord is calling them. The graduates are determined to set the world ablaze spiritually, as further evidenced by their choice of a valiant class patron, St. Michael the Archangel.

A photographic look at the history of Thomas Aquinas College:

Posted: July 11, 2012

Each year, starting in the fall and continuing well into the spring, the seniors of Thomas Aquinas College labor to create what will be the culmination of their four years of academic efforts — the senior thesis. Based on a subject of each student’s own choosing, and drawing from the College’s classical curriculum, the thesis represents its author’s effort to apply his or her education to a matter of scholarly and personal importance.

The slideshow below features photographs of the members of the Class of 2012 and the titles of their Senior Theses:

How Susan and Mike Murray Triple Their Gifts to Thomas Aquinas College

When Mike Murray retired from a 25-year career in management at ExxonMobil in 2006, he and his wife, Susan, were eager to support higher education in some way. It was an opportunity to do good that they could not pass up.

Today Andrew Moore (’14) is in North Platte, Neb., nearing the halfway point in his 10-week, 3,000-mile walk across the continental United States.