“Why does it seem to be the mind’s specific function to know the world?” asks Dr. Sean Kelsey (’92) in his book Mind and World in Aristotle’s De Anima, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.
By God’s grace, and at the hands of the Most Rev. Jaime Soto, Bishop of Sacramento, Rev. Br. Patrick Rooney (’15) was ordained to the transitional diaconate on September 24, 2022, entering the final phase of his formation to become a Dominican priest.
Nearly eight years since she joined the Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary in Summit, New Jersey, Sr. Maria Johanna Barrett (’14), O.P., made her Solemn Profession on August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration.
Just months after architect Duncan Stroik won a Palladio Award for his work on Thomas Aquinas College’s California chapel, the architects who redesigned the building’s New England counterpart have claimed a coveted prize of their own.
Alumni Peter Dowdy (CA ’22) and Katharine Simia (NE ’22) are bringing faith and reason to Catholic schools in Boston, Massachusetts.
“I have four sons who were educated at Thomas Aquinas College. Four sons who couldn’t be more different in temperament. They are in every sense my heroes.”
With a head and a heart formed by Thomas Aquinas College’s program of Catholic liberal education — and refined by 11 years of marriage, motherhood, and evangelization — Emily (Barry ’11) Sullivan is uniquely well suited for her new part-time position as student support coordinator on the New England campus.