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This summer, St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Zanesville, OH, is offering a series of summer lectures during the month of July. The lectures will be on the Mondays and Thursdays of July (except July 9).  The talks will be done by friars visiting St. Thomas during the summer:  Rev. Br. James Brent, OP, Br. Justin [...]

Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P.,  gave the following talk on Dominican spirituality at a vocation weekend in Washington, D.C..  Click here to listen: Dominican Spirituality
Fr. Cessario is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John’s Seminary School of Theology in Brighton, MA.  He is Senior Editor of Magnificat, the largest monthly Catholic devotional in circulation in the United States.  He [...]

Thomistic Circles is a work of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, in Washington, D.C. Serving as a forum for the exchange of theological and philosophical ideas, it seeks to consider contemporary cultural and intellectual issues from within the Thomistic tradition. As a work of the faculty, it [...]

Click below for the audio of today’s show.  After examining the readings for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, I was joined in the studio by Thomas Peters, a popular Catholic blogger known as the American Papist.  Thomas and I discussed how the new media can be a helpful tool in the work of evangelization.  And [...]

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In March 2007, Providence College sponsored a symposium on the theme “Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering.” The symposium was organized by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O. P.
The question of whether or not God suffers - whether His very deity places Him beyond the reach of suffering and evil - has serious [...]

At yesterday’s General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI shared with those present his hopes and expectations for the Jubilee Year for Priests he has called the Church to observe.
As we have come to expect from the Holy Father, his concerns are primarily theological and spiritual; only in a second moment does he turn to practical matters. [...]

During our recent Provincial Assembly, the friars of the Province took the time to honor the jubilarians in their midst. Fr. Luke Tancrell, OP preached a beautiful homily at Mass, where he reflected on his fifty years of priesthood.

A crowd of over 400 gathered Tuesday night at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer for a special pre-screening of “The Human Experience.” Preceeded by a holy hour led by the Frassati Fellowship and the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, the pre-screening attracted a wide variety of viewers: regular parishioners, youth groups from Long Island, [...]

It is most fitting that the Year For Priests, inaugurated by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, begins on the Solemnity of the Heart of Jesus.  In his book The Priest in Union with Christ, Dominican priest Fr. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange explicitly connects the holiness of the priest to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  There [...]

This summer, a small group of friars have gone abroad for intensive summer language studies.  Today, for the feast of the Sacred Heart, a small group met in Toulouse, France, for a brief trip to the tomb of our brother, St. Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor.  At the conclusion of our prayers at his final [...]

Today, Pope Benedict XVI will officially open the Jubilee Year for Priests.  Called in part to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, this year of prayer and renewal has as its goal the greater sanctification of priests worldwide.  The Holy Father has called all members of the Church to enter [...]

A presentation by Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver. As a way of introduction, let us recall very briefly some comments that the Pope himself made in his Homily for the inauguration of the Pauline year on June 28, the feast day of St. Peter and Paul.

A presentation by Father Peter Cameron, OP, Editor-in-chief of Magnificat, on Saint Paul’s faith and his unique role in the diffusion of Christianity. The event was held at The American Bible Society Auditorium in New York City.

Gregory Schnakenberg, Bruno Mary Shah, Anthony Giambrone, Thomas Petri and Jonah Pollock, were ordained to the priesthood by His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. (Watch the video in iTunes for HD)

The Holy See has announced that our brother, Very Rev. Augustine DiNoia, OP, has been appointed to be the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.  Previously, Fr. DiNoia had served the Holy See as Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position he held [...]

Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès is a Dominican who currently holds the position of Secretary in the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See in Rome.  He is a Dominican of the Toulouse Dominican Province in Southern France.  He was appointed the to the Congregation for Catholic Education by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.  Earlier in [...]

This past Sunday the Dominican parish church of St. Thomas Aquinas celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi with a Eucharistic procession through downtown Zanesville. Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP was the main celebrant for Mass and the procession. The procession stopped for benediction an an outside altar in front of the parish office building [...]

Three Reasons Why Thomas Aquinas Matters Today
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a recent interview with Catholic News Service, Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White was asked what three or four points he might drive home if a parish invited him to speak on the strengths of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought today. The 38-year-old theologian, [...]

New Center aims to reintroduce St. Thomas Aquinas to modern world
David Gibson Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A conviction that the 13th-century writings of St. Thomas Aquinas can foster a fruitful dialogue with contemporary culture is the true cornerstone of the newly built Academic Center and Theological Library recently inaugurated at the Dominican House of [...]

Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, discusses the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity with Fr. Bryce Sibley, pastor of the Church of St. Anne in Mamou, LA, and Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP, an associate pastor of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena in New York City.
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