September 29, 2005
Feast day of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
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Lorenzo Ruiz, born around 1600 in Manila, was a husband and father educated by the Dominicans. He worked as a calligrapher for his parish, transcribing baptismal, confirmation, and marriage documents. When Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard, the Spanish Dominican Friars, believing in his innocence, immediately sent him on a missionary expedition led […]

Throughout the Order, the last month has been a time of first professions of vows and new novices.  In addition to our the newly professed and clothed brothers of the Province of St. Joseph, other Dominicans have announced some of their own:
 The Irish Province celebrated the Solemn Vows of one of their brothers.  In addition, […]

Professor Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia, on the Prophet Isaiah in the The Church’s Bible (Eerdmans, 2007). A guest lecture at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., September 24, 2007. Audio mp3, 47 min.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 – 1:30 p.m. St. Catherine of Siena Church, 411 e. 68th St. New York, NY 10021 sponsored by the The Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry ~ Saint Catherine of Siena Church and Priory “Stem Cells in Healing The sick Ethical Dilemmas ~ Ethical Possibilities” William B. Hurlbut, M.D. See […]

Below is the text of the Homily by Fr. James Cuddy, O.P. for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time
“All over the Gospels and in the parables, our Lord gives us examples and stories filled with people worthy of imitation: fishermen and tax collectors who got up and followed him; the sick and centurions who have […]

On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the following article by our Br. Ezra Sullivan, OP, was featured on the Catholic Exchange website.
Exalting the Cross of Contradiction
By Br. Ezra Sullivan, OP
September 13, 2007
Today we Catholics celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. To some, this celebration seems […]

Rev. Augustine DiNoia, a Dominican priest and a member of the Province of St. Joseph, is the Undersecretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Recently, he spoke with Vatican Radio about the recent clarification made by the Congregation on the morality of providing artificial nutrition and hydration to patients in a […]

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In their September 13 issue, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington, The Catholic Standard, published the following article on the installation of new officers of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the blessing of the cornerstone for the new Academic Center and Theological Library, currently under construction.
Dominican House blesses new officers, installs […]

In its July 29, 2007 issue, Our Suday Visitor Newsweekly published a special section on Dominican Spirituality entitled “Dominicans’ Spiritual Adventures”. The series of articles was written by Mr. Barry Michaels, a high school teacher and freelance writer who has published a number of books and articles on a variey of Catholic subjects.
Barry Michaels’ newest […]

Every year, as part of his duties in the house, one of the Student Brothers is assigned the task of maintaining the website for the student brothers.  This year, Br. Peter Totleben, OP, has been assigned as the Studentate Webmaster, taking the place of Br. Dominic Bump, OP, who served as Webmaster for the 2006-2007 academic […]

On Saturday, September 8th, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Dominican Friars, with Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican Ambassador to the United States presiding, celebrated the solemn laying of the cornerstone of the new $18M academic center currently under construction.  
Read more at http://dominicanhistory.blogspot.com/2007/09/dominicans-lay-cornerstone-in.html

MASS
FOLLOWING THE BLESSING OF THE CORNERSTONE OF
THE NEW
ACADEMIC CENTER AND DOMINICAN THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
AND THE
INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
PONTIFICAL FACULTY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Dominican House of Studies
Washington, D.C.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
5:30 p.m.

HOMILY
by
Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D.
Archbishop of Washington
            It is a privilege and pleasure to join the Dominican fathers and brothers today for this […]

Listen to Dominican Brother Austin Litke, OP, discuss how Pope Benedict approaches the Our Father in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth on Word to Life, the weekly radio show on the Sirius Satellite Network’s Catholic Channel (Sirius 159). Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, is the host for this show that aired on July 27, […]

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Father Mark, O.Cist. recently wrote an article on our dominican brother Marie-Etienne Vayssière:
Father Marie-Etienne Vayssière, O.P. (1864-1940) has long occupied a place of honour in my gallery of friends in heaven. Little by little, he is being recognized as a man worthy of a place among the greatest spiritual masters of the Church’s history. I […]

For the second year in a row the friars of of the Dominican House of Studies hosted the students of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception for a friendly game of softball.  These devotees of St. Faustina promised to “show no mercy” to the disciples of the Angelic Doctor.  Yet, the friars remained convinced of the […]

15 men, the largest novitiate class in 32 years, were vested in the black and white habit of our Holy Father St. Dominic on August 8, 2007 in the priory chapel at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, OH.  Their stories are below.

First Row (L-R): Br. Bartolome de las Casas Sweeney, Br. Michael Lynch, Br. Paul Kennedy, Br. Charles Shonk, Br. […]

On Friday, August 31, 2007, the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception celebrated the Mass of the Holy Spirit to seek God’s blessing on the opening of the new academic year.  The Mass was also an opportunity for the school to gather together under its new President, the Very Rev. Steven C. Boguslawski, OP.  Fr. […]