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A 600-year-old pharmacy started by Florentine monks.

By Mishal Husain
Photographs by Scott S. Warren
Smithsonian magazine, February 2008

Among Florence’s churches, Santa Maria Novella is often overlooked: it lacks the grandeur of the Duomo and the poignancy of Santa Croce, where Michelangelo and Galileo are entombed. And while its Renaissance frescoes may rival those of San Marco, its [...]

 
Fr. Chris Saliga, O.P., who ministers with the Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York, located at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church will be a poster presenter at the first annual meeting of the Society for Spirituality, Theology, and Health, sponsored by the Duke Center for Spirituality, on June 25-27, 2008. The [...]

Fr. Giles Dimock, O.P., a priest of the Province of St. Joseph, has taught at the Dominican House of Studies, and now teaches at the Franciscan University of Stuebenville. He recently authored a book on the Eucharist published by Paulist Press.
From the back of the book: “In this book Giles Dimock answers some the most commonly [...]

Below is a reprint of an article which appeared in 1908 edition of The Dominican Yearbook. It is a description of what was then the newly built Priory of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The pictures are original to the article. 
 
THE DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES
AT WASHINGTON

From The Dominican Yearbook, 1908
 

The first harvest [...]

 
His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan celebrated today the Rite of Continuing Conversion for candidates who have participated in their Parish Catechumenate (RCIA) process and are ready to complete their Christian initiation this Easter. Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Joseph were two Dominican parishes that participated in the liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in New [...]

This year is the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Bernadette Soubirous. Br. Hugh Vincent Dyer, O.P., a student brother at the Dominican House of Studies wrote an article for the website GodSpy.com reflecting on the significance of the apparition entitled: “The Healing Love of Lourdes.”
 
A [...]

On Sunday, February 10, The Word Day of the Sick; Saint Catherine of Siena Church commissioned 93 three persons as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. They will help the Dominican Friars in bringing the Eucharist to the patients at several surrounding Hospitals within the parish boundaries including the Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer [...]

On February 8, 2008, the PBS program Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly featured a story on the Dominican Congregation of St. Cecilia, popularly known as the Nashville Dominicans. The video report describes the sisters’ way of life, and features interviews with sisters in formation and recently-professed sisters.
The video can be viewed here.

This past weekend, February 8-10, 2008, the Dominican House of Studies hosted its semiannual vocations weekend for men discerning a vocation to our province. The weekend was a resounding success, with 26 men attending.
On Friday night, there was a Holy Hour, with preaching by Rev. Br. Bruno Mary Shah. In his homily, he reflects on [...]

By: Nicolas Millan
Reporter staff writer for The Hudson Reporter
Echoing the quiet, mostly residential area of 14th Street in Tucked amid the brownstones that line the block are formidable stone walls encasing a Gothic-style building, which is commonly called the Blue Chapel and currently houses five cloistered Dominican nuns who have taken on St. Dominic’s strict [...]

Congratulations to Br. Hugh Vincent Dyer, O.P. who has been invited to be a regular contributor to Godpsy.com. The web magazine has a new daily blog/magazine format as its homepage.
Br. Hugh’s first article as a regular contributor is titled “Fasting: Hunger in the Service of Communion”

The Dominican friars of the Province of St. Joseph have been asked by the Archdiocese of New York to host a weekly radio show on the Archdiocese’s satellite radio station, The Catholic Channel, which is broadcast on the Sirius satellite radio network on channel 159. The program, called “Word to Life,” is an hour-long down-to-earth [...]

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Pope Benedict traveled up Rome’s Aventine Hill today and presided at Santa Sabina for the Mass of Ash Wednesday, and distributed ashes on the first day of Lent. The Basilica was built in the 5th Century over the remains of the Roman martyr Sabina. The Church is one of the most important churches of [...]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 the Dominican House of Studies, together with the Catholic University of America celebrated a Mass in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of Catholic schools in the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Fr. Steven Boguslawski, O.P., the president of the Pontifical [...]

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Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. is a Professor of Moral and Spiritual Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as well as as a highly regarded preacher and retreat master. He has recently published a new book on the priesthood. In his book, Fr. Cole draws on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas [...]

Harvard Educational Review Winter 2007Test-Optional Admission at a Liberal Arts College:A Founding Mission AffirmedBy Shanley, Brian JIn this essay, Father Brian J. Shanley discusses Providence College’s pilot program to eliminate standardized test scores from the required components of an admission application. Building on the college’s ninety-year history of opening the doors of higher education to [...]