The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.

[Bucky Ball]

The Augustino-Thomistic Argument from Contingency and Necessity provides Basic Foundational Evidence for the Existence of Almighty God. ... etc. 

No it doesn't. Not even one tiny bit. 
The "principles" (which Augustine and Aquinas got wrong) as they knew no modern science, are founded on incorrect assumptions. 
One example is that Aquinas assumes that the natural state of matter was "rest". We know that to be totally incorrect.
One among many is, that the environment of "god" exists in, is the same as is present in this universe. 
You (and they) have no evidence of anything in reality, or that it follows the rules you happen to observe in 5 % of this universe. 
95 % of this universe (Dark Matter and Dark Energy) is unknown, and you and they know and knew nothing about what it is or how it acts. 
You cannot statistically project what Reality is, based on 5 % of one tiny segment of Reality, ONLY here, and you know nothing about Reality (if) where your god exists. (And furthermore, if anything is "necessary" for a deity, then that deity is not master of Reality, and is subject to it .... therefore not a master of anything). Where did the Reality come from that makes it "necessary" ? A deity which "exists" does not, "not exist" and therefore since it's inception (or "eternal existence" was only a partial element in reality, and the question remains ... "Where did Reality come from" ... in which your god is only a part ?" 
Tell your teachers in your Catholic college you want your money back.

Edit to add : I was once in a famous monastery's library, reading Aquinas' "Compendium of Theology", (in Latin), and I laughed out loud, when coming on his statement
that the reason the tempter went to Eve first, (before Adam) was that the "light of reason shone less brightly in her". Women are dumb, according to Tommy Aquinas.
I got "shushed". LOL