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Health Care Mission Online Information Session

Take the next steps to advance your healthcare ministry!

Register now to learn more about the updated Health Care Mission program through the Ashley-O'Rourke Center at Aquinas Institute of Theology.

Next Online Info Session:

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at Noon
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at Noon

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Aquinas Receives New $1.25 Million Lilly Grant

Aquinas Institute is one of 170 organizations to receive a grant from Lilly Endowment's Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. The grant will allow Aquinas to establish the Aquinas Worship and Prayer Through Children's Catechesis Project (WPCC).

Aquinas President Fr. Mark Wedig, OP, emphasized, “Lilly Endowment’s funding of the Aquinas Worship and Prayer Through Children’s Catechesis Project will enable Aquinas Institute to achieve new avenues for promoting children’s spirituality both at the parish and diocesan levels, but also in the theological academies." 

Dr. Ann Garrido (pictured at table), longtime collaborator with the United States Association of The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and founder of the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (MAPS-CGS) program at Aquinas, will direct the WPCC program.

Built of Living Stones: Edifice and Image in Christian History

Begins April 8, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
In-person or on Zoom

This six-week Mini-Course at Aquinas will be presented by Aquinas President Fr. Mark Wedig, OP.

The course will explore six periods in Christian history that each embody distinct ways that the Church is expressed through its sacred buildings and the art which adorns them.  Attention will be especially given to the ways that liturgy is “housed” in each of these paradigms.

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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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