Dear Parents and Prospective Students:

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (“Angelicum”) is the University of the Dominican Order in Rome.  Our 1,200 students come from 90 countries, the two main countries being the United States and Italy.  We are the only pontifical university in Rome with classes both in English and Italian. Our students are taught by 150 Dominican friars and sisters, diocesan clerics, men and women religious from a wide variety of congregations and lay professors from 30 different countries.  

What unifies the teaching of the four Faculties – Theology, Canon Law, Philosophy and Social Sciences – is the reference to the teaching of the Angelic Doctor: St. Thomas Aquinas.  Our students appreciate this as very valuable for their personal formation.  The students also like the religious atmosphere of the University, the possibility to pray on campus and the family-like environment.  Of course, Rome provides a unique experience of the universal Church.

The most renowned alumnus of our University, the late John Paul II, stressed in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio the importance of a unified relationship between faith and reason.  This is the very heart of St. Thomas Aquinas’ contribution to the life of the Church. Pope Benedict XVI refers to the same argument as essential for peace in the world and for the cultural presence of Catholics.  It is our commitment to serve the Church in these lines with our teaching and research.

Yours in Christ,

Fr. Charles Morerod, O.P.