About a week ago I was perusing Power Line when I came across a bit about an anti-abortion activist who was denied space for her speech at the University of St. Thomas — in part because the…
A recent decision by the University of St. Thomas to restructure the institution’s board of trustees has led to criticism by conservative Catholics and Christian news outlets that the university is moving away from conservative Catholicism.
The University of St. Thomas‘ campus recycling web page features the quoted wisdom of environmental thinkers and spiritual leaders like Jesus, Wendell Berry, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Senegalese ecologist Baba Dioum and Aldo Leopold. A curious inclusion:
Grant Smith is an alumni of St. Thomas University, but you won’t find his diploma displayed on a wall. “The venue-denial maelstrom surrounding Dennis Dease did not end with his grudging…
Two weeks ago, when University of St. Thomas leaders reversed their decision to block Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu to speak at its campus and extended him a hasty invitation, they hoped to put the snafu behind…
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University of St. Thomas president the Rev. Dennis Dease said the decision to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak at its campus was wrong, and that he will take measures to invite him.
“I have wrestled…
To avoid offending some in Minnesota’s Jewish community, the University of St. Thomas scrubbed a plan to invite Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to speak at its campus next year. But along the way the Catholic…
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