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UST program offers a spiritual guided journey for retirement  

The Next Chapter consists of readings and assessments coupled with sharing and time to reflect. The cohort met monthly on Saturday mornings at the Iversen Center for Faith on the St. Thomas campus and attended a weekend retreat; a second session with a new cohort begins this month. 

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Panelists at UST explore the state of proclaiming the faith at Catholic universities

In 1885, Archbishop John Ireland founded what would become the University of St. Thomas, an archdiocesan university in St. Paul. Twenty years later, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, then led by Archbishop Ireland’s sister, Mother Seraphine Ireland, established what today is St. Catherine University, just a mile south of St. Thomas.

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Silent or not, St. Thomas retreats help college students journey with God

University of St. Thomas junior Ricky Pipala’s smartphone is a source of both comfort and stress — so putting it and other distractions aside during his recent silent retreat with fellow students made it easier to listen for Christ’s voice.

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UST’s President Sullivan leaving to lead Santa Clara University

In an email to the St. Thomas community, President Julie Sullivan said her decision to leave was “difficult” and “one which I have spent a long time discerning and praying about,” citing personal reasons that swayed the move. She noted that her husband, Bob, is in California, and she has adult children and four grandsons who live near Santa Clara.

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St. Catherine, St. Thomas universities to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall

Students at the two Catholic universities based in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis need to add one more item to their to-do list: Get a COVID-19 vaccine. And soon.

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The Living Heart of Jesus: On Faith in the Resurrection

The Living Heart of Jesus: On Faith in the ResurrectionDoubting Thomas & Our Lessons in Faith Poor St. Thomas! What he expected with trepidation on the journey to Jerusalem has come to pass. The Master has been killed, and he and the other disciples have retreated in fear for their own lives. For his part, Thomas withdraws also from the company of his fellow […]

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Is it Fair to Call Today’s Saint “Doubting Thomas”?

Is it Fair to Call Today's Saint “Doubting Thomas”?Poor St. Thomas the Apostle. For much of the history of Christianity, he has been affiliated with one word: doubt. A “doubting Thomas,” says Wikipedia, “is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas.” Some Christians have even used the moniker to defend doubt as a kind of […]

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The Faith of “Doubting” Thomas

“God is patient with our questions, our weakness, and our struggles, just as he was patient with Thomas.” It is tradition that St. Thomas was the only Apostle to leave the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling to Syria and Persia and then to Ind…

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