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In the wake of the Supreme Court�s ruling in Obergefell v.

Marking the culmination of a four-year legal effort that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. government on Friday agreed to a settlement that will permanently exempt 91����� Aquinas College from the so-called HHS Contraceptive Mandate of the Affordable Care Act.

�A parent calls me and says, �Maureen, I don�t know what to do. I am at the end of my rope. I have been called to the school three times this week. They�re suspending my child. What am I going to do?��

Within the last 18 months, Rev. Jacob ( Joseph �06) Hsieh, O.Praem., has had the honor of singing at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and at the Papal Easter Vigil in St. Peter�s Basilica.

On April 25, 1970, almost 18 months before 91����� Aquinas College opened for its first academic year, its founders staged a major promotional dinner at San Francisco�s Fairmont Hotel. Some 450 guests attended the event, at which the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen served as the keynote speaker.

Below is the audio of the remarks that the College�s founding president, Dr. Ronald P. McArthur, gave that evening:

�I am not a great decision-maker,� admits Dr. Samuel Caughron (�96). �My approach to big life decisions is to pray a lot, to get as much information as I can, to wait until the last minute � and then to make a decision and go with it.�

Reflecting on 25 Years of
the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

In a bemoaning the high level of indebtedness that plagues so many of today�s college graduates, the New York Post notes that �higher education doesn�t have to be prohibitively expensive.� The newspaper cites a few select schools � 91����� Aquinas College among them � that are �addressing the rising student-debt issue with an innovative use of an old-fashioned concept: work.�

Essays

• The Formation of the Catholic Mind
• Liberal Education & the Preservation of the Political Order
• The Roots of Modern Education
• The Study of St.