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On the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, January 28 the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City sponsored a lecture by Dr. Russell Hittinger.

A friar of our community at St. Vincent’s, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., gives this account of the evening:
 
The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer’s first St. Thomas’ Day Lecture was [...]

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Fr. John Vidmar, O.P., an associate professor of theology at Providence College and the archivist for our province, has written a new book on Dominican Spirituality. It is called Praying With the Dominicans: To Praise, To Bless, To Preach.

The book contains a wealth of Dominican blessings and prayers, as well as brief reflections [...]

The Australian Dominicans have put up a blog with information about their province and its plans for the 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. Check it out!

Saturday, January 26 was the feast of Saints Timothy and Titus. At the community Mass at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, one of our newly ordained deacons, Br. Anthony Giambrone, O.P. preached the homily.

 
Dominican Friars from our province serve at the historic St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village in New York City. The parish not only serves Greenwich Village Catholics, but also functions as a university parish for New York University. They have launched a new webiste which features information both about the parish and the [...]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2008 the annual March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. As has become tradition, Dominicans were out in full force. Marching along with our student brothers were members of various Dominican parishes [...]

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Br. Thomas Petri, O.P. has an article in the latest issue of the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly where he discusses some Catholic criticisms of the method of generating pluripotent stem cells known as ANT-OAR.
The article was originally published in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7.4 (Winter 2007): 729-747 © 2007 by The National Catholic Bioethics [...]

This weekend, the Walk for Life on the West Coast was held. The Dominicans of the Province of the Holy Name were there for the March. In addition, some of the sisters from Dominican Sisters of Mary the Mother of the Eucharist participated. The sisters recently opened a new mission in [...]

in 1989, the Master of the Order of Preachers asked the American Provinces of Dominicans to establish a mission in East Africa.  In 1991, the Province of St. Joseph sent seven men to Kenya in response to the Master’s request.  Since then, our Province has continued to send men to assist the Vicariate of Eastern [...]

On Saturday, January 12, 2008, seven of our brothers were ordained to the diaconate at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC by the Most Rev. Thomas Cajetan Kelly, OP. Below is a slideshow of the event.
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On Saturday, January 12, seven of our brothers will be ordained to the Diaconate at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The program for the ordination Mass is available by clicking here. The brothers to be ordained are: Br. Peter Hoàng Ðỗ, O.P., John Sơn Thanh Hoàng, O.P, Br. [...]

Today, the Dominican Order celebrates the feast of St. Raymond of Peñafort, a Dominican friar whose life spanned a century, from 1175 to 1275.  St. Raymond was known in his day as a brilliant canon lawyer and is the patron of canon lawyers.  In the Dominican House of Studies today, the homily below was preached in honor of [...]

January 3rd is the day on which the Church celebrates the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.  In 1274, Pope Gregory X entrusted devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus to the Dominican Order.  The Confraternity of the Holy Name had its origins in the Council of Lyon in the same year, as a [...]

St. Dominic’s church in Youngstown, OH recently went on-line with its new webpage. You can view the new website at: www.saintdominic.org.

Fr. Christopher Saliga, O.P. will speak on health-care ethics on January 16 at 7:00 pm at Walsh University’s Honor Society of Nursing in North Canton, OH. The talk by New York City-based health-care chaplain and ethicist Father Saliga will reflect on “ethically-excellent clinical interventions within the end-of-life context.” The school is located at [...]

On Monday January 28, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer will host a public lecture. In his address, Prof. Russell Hittinger, the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa and Robert J. Randall Distinguished Visiting Professor in Christian Culture, Providence College, will remind us of the [...]

Below is a short video montage of photos from the Christmas Mass during the Day at the Priory of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. The celebrant for the Mass was His Excellency, Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, OP, recently retired after more than 25 years as Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky. Archbishop Kelly’s last [...]

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