After 16 years of service to Wyoming Catholic College — which mixes a Great Books curriculum with a commitment to the outdoors — Dr. Kyle Washut (’07) has been appointed the young school’s fourth president, assuming leadership of an institution which shares a deep spiritual kinship with his alma mater.
When Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Roberts (’13) celebrated his 10-year reunion at this summer’s West Coast Alumni Dinner, he returned to the school that gave him the gift of a Great Books education with a Great Books gift of his own: a nearly 500-year-old Italian edition of St. Augustine’s Confessions.
Joseph Stack (’17) is doing his part to revive the study of the Angelic Doctor with The Daily Thomist, an online newsletter which “breaks down the ideas of Thomas Aquinas and others into brief, digestible pieces so you can live an intellectual life while you are busy.”
The vision of “strong” masculinity promoted by the popular social-media personality Andrew Tate “is both alien and inferior to Christian asceticism, which serves transcendent ends,” writes alumnus author Jonathan Culbreath (’17) in First Things.
While Catholics have pondered what Pope St. John Paul II called “the new evangelization” for decades, Andrew Whaley (’05) has done more than ponder.
When not engaged in advanced graduates studies in philosophy, Michael Bors (’15) can be found conducting tours of his native Annapolis.
Long before the world knew Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster, O.S.B. for the extraordinary preservation of her body in the grave, two alumnae of Thomas Aquinas College were among those who knew the nun for her decades of devotion to religious life.