While on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, New England, last week to offer the President’s Day lecture, a prominent alumnus priest and scholar visited the men of St. Augustine Hall to recount how he discovered his Cistercian vocation — offering some practical discernment advice along the way.
As part of an ongoing series of vocations visits, three members of the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa — including one Thomas Aquinas College alumna, Sr. John Paul Maria (Michaella ’12) Pape, O.P. — visited the California campus last week.
Inspired by Fr. Mike Schmitz’s enormously popular “Catechism in a Year” podcast, veteran Catholic educator Mark Langley (’89) has started a similar podcast centered around understanding another classic Church document: The Catechism of the Council of Trent.
Mary Rose (Bacani ’03) Valenti and Veronica Ferri (’06) were friends during their overlapping year at Thomas Aquinas College, but in the years since they have bonded over another common love: Madonna House in Combermere, Ontario, an apostolate dedicated to living the Gospel without compromise.
Last October marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, and Dr. Peter Kwasniewski (‘94) — an alumnus author and sometime proponent of Catholic liberal education overseas — thought it high time for a sober reflection of that watershed moment in the Church’s history.
“TAC fell out of the sky,” says Daina Andries (’09), founder of Epidaurus Health, about how she made her way to Thomas Aquinas College nearly 20 years ago.
The Center for Independent Research on Classical Education — otherwise known as the CiRCE Institute — has awarded its Russell Kirk Paideia Prize to Dr. Andrew Seeley (’87), recognizing his “invaluable contribution to the Christian classical renewal.”