Saint Thomas Aquinas Lectures
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
Dr. Richard H. Bulzacchelli (STL ’02)
participated in the St. Thomas Aquinas
colloquium at Aquinas College in Nashville.
Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P. (STB ’70, STL
’72, STM ’13), gave the St. Thomas Lecture
at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa
Paula, California.
ALUMNI &
F A C U LT Y
On February 2, 2015, Fr. Thomas Joseph
White, O.P. (STL ’08, faculty), gave the
Aquinas Lecture at St. Mary’s Dominican
Church in Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland.
At Providence College, the St. Thomas
Aquinas lecture by Fr. Nicholas
Lombardo, O.P. (MDiv ’03, STL ’05),
was postponed to March 16, 2015 due
to adverse weather.
Photo credit: The Catholic University of America
Arina Grossu with EWTN News
Nightly anchor, Brian Patrick.
Faith & Reason - Winter 2015
Prior Provincial Fr. Kenneth Letoile,
O.P. (STB ’73, STL ’75), delivered the
homily at the St. Thomas Aquinas Mass
at the Basilica of the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception, televised
on EWTN.
In November, Arina Grossu (MA ’08)
of the Family Research Council and
Genevieve Cervantes Plaster (MA ’13)
of the Charlotte Lozier Institute joined
other presenters, including Rep. Chris
Smith (R-NJ), to share their findings on
research examining healthcare.gov and
state-based insurance exchanges for
information on abortion coverage and
the transparency of that information.
On January 16, 2015, Fr. Thomas Petri,
O.P. (STL ’06), the PFIC’s Vice President
and Academic Dean, delivered the
opening prayer for the U.S. House of
Representatives’ Pro Forma Session.
Fr. James Quigley, O.P. (STB ’64, STL
’66), has been appointed to the new
Board of Trustees of the Angelicum.
The role of the Board, which includes
Dominican friars and laity, is to develop
the institution along the lines of mission,
finance, and fundraising.
On January 8, 2015, Fr. Dominic Legge,
O.P. (MDiv, STB ’07, STL ’08), appeared
on EWTN News Nightly to comment on
the terrorist attacks in Paris. Fr. Legge
reminded viewers that Pope Benedict XVI
spoke often about violence in the name of
God as the greatest form of blasphemy.
On September 14, 2014, Fr. Stanley
Kelechi Ihuoma, S.S.J. (MDiv ’10, MA ’11),
was installed as pastor of Holy Name
of Jesus Church in the Jefferson Park
neighborhood of Los Angeles. Archbishop
José Gomez recently entrusted the parish
to the care of the Society of St. Joseph of
the Sacred Heart, approving Fr. Ihuoma
as its first Josephite pastor. Holy Name
is only the second Josephite community
west of the Mississippi River.
In the fall of 2014, Dr. William Diem (STL
’08) joined the faculty of the University
of St. Thomas, Houston, as a visiting
professor of theology. He currently
teaches “Christ and the Moral Life” and
“Teachings of the Catholic Church.”
The Catholic University of America
Press recently published Theology and
Sanctity, the latest book by Fr. Romanus
Cessario, O.P. (STB ’70, STL ’72, STM ’13).
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