Writing in USA Today, alumna journalist Katrina Trinko (’09) tries to explain to baffled secular audiences the importance of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ ongoing discussion about worthiness to receive Holy Communion.
Some 21 years after her graduation from Thomas Aquinas College — and 16 after she left the United States to enter the religious life in Italy — Mother Madeleine Marie of St. Joseph (Mary Kay Ellis ’99) returned to the California campus last week.
Last Saturday afternoon Rev. David Allen (’10) received the Sacrament of Holy Orders at the hands of the Most Rev. Daniel F. Garcia, Bishop of Monterey, at Madonna del Sasso Parish in Salinas, California.
Please pray for Rev. Mr. David Allen (’10), who, by God’s grace, will be ordained to the holy priesthood on Saturday for the Diocese of Monterey in California.
Less than two hours after Rev. Michael Masteller became Thomas Aquinas College’s 76th alumnus priest, Rev. John Winkowitsch, O.P. (’04), became its 77th.
Just two days after his ordination, the College’s 76th alumnus priest — and the first ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — returned to the California campus Monday to offer Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.
On Saturday morning, the Most Rev. Mitchell Rozanski, Archbishop of St. Louis, ordained Rev. Ryan Truss (’16) to the sacred priesthood of Jesus Christ — making him Thomas Aquinas College’s 75th alumnus priest.