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Video excerpt from a special edition of “Word to Life,” the province’s weekly program on Sirius 159, The Catholic Channel. Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. and Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. discussed and explained the events of the Papal Visit in NYC on Saturday April 19. Full Audio of both hours below: 
             
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The Catholic Channel Sirius 159, a Special Edition hosted by Fr. Chris Saliga, O.P. with special guests Fr. John Vidmar, O.P., Students from Quinnipiac University and many others. 
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The Dominican Friars of the Priory of the Immaculate Conception have unfurled a banner welcoming the Holy Father to America (watch video below). The banner faces 4th Street in Northwest Washington, DC and will be visible to the Holy Father as he makes his way up the parade route from the U.S. Bishops’ Conference […]

During a Theology of Tap gathering in New York City, Fr. Carlton Jones speaks of his conversion to Catholicism. Father Jones is a graduate of Yale University and after fourteen years in the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Father Jones became a Roman Catholic in 1982, entered the Dominican Order, and was ordained […]

 

(29 March 08-RV) Youth in New York are preparing for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States in just over two weeks time. Twenty thousand young people from different parts of the country will hold a vigil in New York on the occasion of the Holy Father’s visit. Dominican Father Gabriel Gillen […]

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HD pictures from St Peters Basilica, Rome from pthurst on Vimeo.

Heaven Scent

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 […]


Santa Sabina

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 […]

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 11, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican Congregation for the Clergy is looking for people willing to offer Eucharistic adoration for the priesthood and “consecrated feminine souls” ready to become spiritual mothers of priests.
A new Web site from that Vatican dicastery offers explanations and resources both for the campaign to begin Eucharistic adoration and […]

CAROUGE, Switzerland, OCT. 30, 2007 (Zenit.org).- If the young Georges Cottier was in contact with great thinkers of the 20th century, why did he end up becoming the theologian of the pontifical household, instead of a Marxist or a follower of Sartre or Nietzsche?
How can the Church continue to claim in the 20th century that […]

On Oct. 28, in the biggest beatification ever in history, Pope Benedict XVI beatified a total of 498 martyrs of the communist persecutions during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Among them was Fr. Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, former master general of the Dominican Order in Rome who was executed by the communists in Madrid […]

Angelicum Tour

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as Pontificia Università San Tommaso d’Aquino or the Angelicum, is one of the major pontifical universities of Rome.
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Father Robert Christian O.P. a professor at the Angelicum speaks about a former classmate of mine Father Ragheed Ganni.

Ioannes Paulus PP. II

LETTERS OF JOHN PAUL II TO THE ORDER OF PREACHERS
ON THE OCCASION OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS 16 August 2004
To Reverend Father Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa
Master General of the Dominicans, Krakow
In your hands, Venerable Brother, I place my cordial greeting and the expression of my spiritual closeness to the representatives […]