Feb 11, 2010 / 05:18 am
Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California will inaugurate former dean Dr. Michael F. McLean as its fourth president on Saturday.
The inauguration will begin with a 10 a.m. Mass concelebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony and Bishop Thomas Curry in the college’s Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. A number of priests, including some alumni, will also concelebrate, the college said in a press release.
Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, will lead the installation ceremony in the chapel at 12 noon. Dr. McClean will be greeted by several other college presidents, including Fr. David M. O’Connell of the Catholic University of America.
The Chairman of the Board of Governors, R. James Wensley, will invest Dr. McLean as president and give him the president’s silver chain of office. The new president will then make a profession of faith and an oath of fidelity that he and his college will remain loyal to the Holy Father and to Catholic teaching.