Genuine Catholic Education
and its Power to Transform Our Culture

By His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke
Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Thomas Aquinas College
January 16, 2016 

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Please join fellow members of the Thomas Aquinas College community at this year’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., and Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco!

The March for Life will take place in Washington on Friday, January 22. The College’s D.C. Board of Regents will be there, carrying a Thomas Aquinas College banner. The group plans to meet in front of the California pillar at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall at noon. The March begins around 1:00 p.m. and is preceded by a rally.

Each year, when seniors read Russian novels as part of the seminar curriculum, Thomas Aquinas College’s Lithuanian librarian, Viltis Jatulis, hosts a soirée, like those portrayed in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The centerpiece for these gatherings, which take place in the Library’s Fine Arts Room, is an elegant vessel — a century-old Russian samovar.

Thomas Aquinas College President Michael F.

On Monday, attorneys from the Jones Day law firm, which is representing Thomas Aquinas College in its Supreme Court challenge of the HHS Contraceptive Mandate, submitted a 96-page brief outlining the College’s legal position.

One in Four Members of the Class of 2019 Studied
Elsewhere Before Coming to the College

There are more than 83,000 students on Arizona State University’s 640-acre urban campus, making the odds of a chance encounter with an old friend slim, at best. Yet one day this past summer, when Moises Gomez was visiting the university with his sister, he ran into one of his classmates from Thomas Aquinas College’s 2012 High School Summer Program, Joseph Zwemke. The two friends greeted, then discussed some exciting news.

Benefactors’ Generosity Yields
Richer Classroom Discussions

“A great book can be read many times, and each time the reader can discover something new,” says Thomas Aquinas College President Michael F. McLean. “We want our students, in the years to come, to go beyond their first readings. We want them to keep these books, to re-read them, and to ponder them.”

Even when he was a child, Peter Knuffke was a Thomist. “I used to discuss theology with my dad a lot, and when he would describe the different points of view of various theologians, I would always say, ‘No, no! The position that Thomas Aquinas took — that’s the right one!’” he remembers.

When he was in high school, David Grothoff had a good friend who decided to attend Thomas Aquinas College. It was an intriguing choice, David thought, but not for him.