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Go and Make Disciples: Aligning Parishes for Evangelization

Fr. Brent Bowen, OP, will lead this mini-course offering from The Center for Continuing Education at Aquinas starting June 10.

The four-session course, held every Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m., will explore how the Church understands evangelization and postmodern conversion. Parish pastoral teams will be introduced to the concepts needed to align their communities around the mission of evangelization.

All sessions are available online and in-person.

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Our 2025 MAPS-CGS Graduates!

Please help us congratulate the 2022 cohort of Aquinas Institute's Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (MAPS-CGS) on the students' May 9 graduation!

Aquinas is the only school offering this program. The classes for the 2026 cohort begin in January - learn more about the program and apply today!

THE AQUINAS WAY

Part of the world-wide Order of Preachers and following in the footsteps of Saint Dominic, we are a Catholic, Dominican, graduate school of theology in Saint Louis Missouri. We send out graduates, lay and religious, grounded in the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, to preach the gospel in word and deed. 

By The Numbers

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Student-to-Teacher Ratio

Aquinas Institute believes in a small community where teachers, laypersons and friars can learn side-by-side, using discussion and collaboration as tools to best find the truth.

$4 million

Received in Grant Money

Aquinas Institute has launched the Center for Continuing Education, the New Frontiers in Preaching program, and the upcoming  Worship and Prayer Through Children's Catechesis Project with grant money provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc. These programs allow Aquinas to not only teach graduate students, but to provide lifelong learning opportunities as well.

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Nearly 2,000 Alumni Around the World

Aquinas alumni have served as hospital chaplains, non-profit executives, youth ministers, theology teachers, academic administrators, college professors, social justice advocates, and more.

1925

Year Aquinas Institute of Theology was founded

Aquinas Institute of Theology has been educating graduate students in the discipline of theology for almost 100 years.

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Academic programs offered, from degree programs to graduate certificate options

Graduate degree programs at Aquinas include a Master of Arts in Theology, Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, and a Master of Divinity, the country's only Doctor of Ministry in Preaching, and the only Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd degree of its kind.

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Fully Funded Aquinas Scholarships

Available for full-time students in any of the "Core Three" programs: MA in Theology, MA in Pastoral Studies, or Master of Divinity.

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Dominican Provinces served

Aquinas Institute is designated as the Center for Institutional Studies by the Order of Preachers and is sponsored by the Dominican Central Province of St. Albert the Great in partnership with Dominican Southern Province of St. Martin de Porres.

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