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In his book, Peace of Soul, Bishop Sheen laments that the “great pity of life is that so many minds fail to make acquaintance with the whole of their environment.” He brings to attention how modern men tend to be compartmentalized, experts in what they know but at the same time devoid of understanding in other essential aspects of life. Handicapped by not having the whole story they are like men without one or more of their senses, confined to know only “part of their environment and not the whole.” For a man to limp along his path in life this way is a tragic prospect.
Before the effects of the Protestant Revolution made its way into universities, when Catholic education was still the model, colleges intended to develop a student’s whole being by requiring study of all the fundamental facets of reality. The goal was to give the student the means to understand their personal life as part of a bigger reality and to live accordingly—finding purpose and happiness because of it.
This Catholic spirit still guides the mission of St. Mary’s College. Young men and women are offered a place to develop into truly free thinkers; not thinking what they want, but considering what is, has been, and always will be the truths of man’s existence concerning his whole world, natural and supernatural. First and foremost that must include theology; the study of God who gives purpose and beauty to that existence.