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Note: Due to technical difficulties, the very end of Archbishop Aquila’s address is missing from the audio file below. Please pardon the inconvenience.

After consulting with attorneys, members of the Board of the Governors, and fellow members of the faculty, Thomas Aquinas College President Michael F. McLean has expressed skepticism about the Obama Administration’s latest “accommodation” to the HHS Contraceptive Mandate. “The revised accommodation does not appear to address the College’s concerns about materially cooperating in the provision of coverage for morally objectionable procedures and medications,” says Dr. McLean.

On Monday, August 25, 2014, some 102 students from across the country and abroad matriculated as freshmen at Thomas Aquinas College — the Class of 2018.

Members of the Class of 2018 began arriving on campus on Thursday morning for the start of the 2014-15 academic year. Greeted by the prefects, the freshmen then made their way to their residence halls and the campus bookstore:

That evening the College hosted a barbeque for freshmen and their families, after which the new students and their siblings enjoyed an ice-cream social in St. Joseph Commons:

At the start of the upcoming academic year, there will be a new head and a new member of the Thomas Aquinas College chaplaincy. Rev. Hildebrand Garceau, O.Praem. (’78), a graduate of the College who has served as a chaplain since 2011, is succeeding the departing Rev. Joseph Illo as head chaplain. Meanwhile, Rev.

The College has recently received the following complete, albeit unpolished, video of the Thomas Aquinas College Choir’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado this past spring:

Kudos Include: “Best Value,”
“Best Classroom Experience”
& “Most Religious Students”

Note: Head Chaplain Rev. Joseph Illo delivered the following homily at the nuptial Mass of Annie (Kaiser ’11) and Chris Kuebler (’04) on June 28, 2014, in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.