STAS.ORG Announced in the Verbum!
                For better or for worse, the Internet is here to stay. And while we lament the innumerable evils which this global medium has triggered, it should not be forgotten that such a tool can be harnessed for great good.

This was the thought which inspired a number of technically-inclined seminarians to request permission to build a website for St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary during the fall of 2003. By establishing the Seminary on the web, information on priestly vocations in the Society of St. Pius X could be made available to a wide range of people, reaching Catholics and non-Catholics across the globe. After thoughtful consideration, the Rector granted his consent, and within weeks the work commenced. The project was done entirely “in-house,” and the Seminary did not incur any additional costs.

Since the project could not conflict with the seminarians’ busy schedules, the “Web Team” was forced to work quickly and efficiently during its limited free time. Each week the members met to discuss the site’s progress. One seminarian was assigned to write the computer code, another was responsible for the art and design and many others were recruited for hundreds of hours of scanning images and entering text. It was a team effort from start to finish, lasting a total of six months. Time was always scarce, but by the summer of 2004, the first version of the website was ready to be put on the web.

On July 30th, the Seminary’s website went live. STAS.ORG was online! The site presently features downloadable versions of all the VERBUM publications, copies of the Rector’s Letter dating all the way back to 1983, a photo gallery of nearly 1,000 pictures and a mass of information pertaining to Seminary life and the priestly vocation.
                While STAS.ORG is officially online, it is not by any means complete. Work on the site will continue into the future, with new items appearing every few months. The next major update to the site is scheduled for Christmas of 2004. It is the fervent hope of the seminarians involved in this apostolic work that the website will attract many vocations to the Seminary and also be a useful source of information for its devoted friends and benefactors.