Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

Thomas Aquinas College May 13, 2017

On May 16, Thomas Aquinas College celebrated its 43rd Commencement Exercises, honoring the 91 members of the Class of 2017. The day began with the Baccalaureate Mass of the Holy Spirit in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. Rev. Paul Scalia, Episcopal Vicar for Clergy in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, served as the principal celebrant and homilist.

May 13, marks 100 years since Our Lady’s first apparition in Fatima, Portugal. As members of the Church worldwide celebrate this anniversary, the event calls to mind a lecture that the Hon. Frank Shakespeare — the onetime president of CBS Television who served as the U.S. ambassador to Portugal, and then the Holy See, during the Reagan Administration — delivered at Thomas Aquinas College on February 24, 2006. As that year’s President’s Day lecturer, Ambassador Shakespeare described the simultaneous, providential rise to power of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Pope St. John Paul II, and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union. He highlighted the pivotal roles that these three men played — under the protection of Our Lady of Fatima — in the collapse of Communism and the Soviet Union. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition in Fatima, the College now makes audio of this fascinating lecture available to the public.

Dr. McLean's President's Dinner address to the graduating seniors on May 10, 2017

St. Thomas Day Lecture at Thomas Aquinas College March 7, 2017

Fr. Paul: St. Thomas Aquinas & the Call to Study by Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

Dean Kelly’s Remarks at the Dedication of Founders Plaza by Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

President McLean’s Remarks at the Dedication of Founders Plaza by Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

by Dr. Paul Rahe Professor of History Hillsdale College February 24, 2017 See text: https://thomasaquinas.edu/news/presidents-day-lecture-freedom-speech-and-religion

Dr. David Appleby Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series January 13, 2017