Ordo Praedicatorum

This year, the Irish Province of Dominicans was graced with the largest class of entering novices they have had in more than 20 years.  On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, thirteen young Irishmen began their notvitate year at St. Mary’s Priory in Popes Quay.  Additional pictures can be found at the [...]

Each summer, the student brothers from the Dominican House of Studies are sent out to various priories throughout the province for different ministries.  This is so that they can grow in their understanding of what the preaching aspect of the Dominican life is all about.  Also, it gives the brothers a chance to experience life [...]

On February 16, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI announced the canonization of 10 new saints.  Among those to be canonized was a Spanish Dominican priest, Bl. Francisco Coll y Guitart (1812-1875).  Bl. Francisco is perhaps best known as the founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  The [...]

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 [...]

The Catholic Herald–”Britain’s leading Catholic newspaper”–recently published a story on the resurgence of the Dominican friars in England.  Published on the feast of St. Dominic, the article notes the reduction in the size of the Order–and religious life generally–experienced after the Second Vatican Council.  The article goes on to note a new renaissance in Dominican [...]

The Director of World Youth Day 2008 in Australia was Bishop Anthony Fisher, OP, an auxiliary bishop of Sidney, Australia and a Dominican friar of the Province of the Assumption in Australia.  The Dominicans had a very visible role in the events of World Youth Day.  As part of their activities, our brothers in Australia [...]

The French city of Toulouse is the cradle of the Dominican Order. It was in Toulouse and its surrounding towns that St. Dominic and the first friars began to live their new evangelical life as mendicant preachers. Their importance for the city of Toulouse can be measured by looking at the magnificent medieval Dominican church [...]

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 [...]

The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph,
the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus,
and the Vietnamese Vicariate of Saint Vincent Liêm

joyfully announce the
Ordination of their Brothers

John Gregory Schnakenberg, O.P.
Vinod Bruno Mary Shah, O.P.
Joseph Anthony Giambrone, O.P.
Jacob Thomas Petri, O.P.
Jonah Francis Pollock, O.P.
Peter Hoàng Ðỗ, O.P.
John Sơn Thanh Hoàng, O.P.

to the Order of [...]

On June 2, 2007, the Dominican friars of the Province of the Holy Name of Jesus (Western Province) ordained four men to the priesthood. Shortly before their ordination, they interviewed three of them about their vocations: Fr. Jerome Cudden, OP, Fr. Michael Hurley, OP, and Fr. Vincent Kelber, OP. They’ve edited those video [...]

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Among the martyrs of the Spanish Civil War recently beatified, the list included a former Master of the Order, Bonaventure García Paredes. Below is an excerpt of his biography (translated from Spanish) and prepared by the postulators of his cause for beatification: Fr. Vito T. Gómez, OP, Postulator General, and Fr Francesco Ricci, OP, [...]

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Of the 497 martrys of the Spanish Civil War beatified on 28 October 2007, at least 74 were associated with the Order of Preachers, mostly friars. (Although the group also included the first Dominican Cloistered Nun to be martyred, Bl. Josefina Sauleda Paulis, OP.) Below are the names of all the Dominican martyrs of the [...]

For 100 years now, the Dominican friars in France have organized an annual Rosary Pilgrimage.  The pilgrimage is held in Lourdes, the place of Our Lady’s appearance to St. Bernadette Soubirous, in the first week of October.  This year, between 30,000 to 40,000 people attended this event, including more than 2,000 teenagers who came with [...]

In our House of Studies in Washington, we are privileged to have a number of friars from other Provinces studying with us.  This allows us to learn about some of the work being done by our friars in other parts of the world.   In the Province of Toulouse (France), the friars organize a week of beach [...]

On the weekend of October 6 and 7, the Studium at the Priory of the Immaculate Conception played host to the first Dominican Inter-Provincial Studentate Conference.  The Studia of the other American Provinces — the Provinces of St. Albert the Great (Central), the Holy Name of Jesus (West) and St. Martin de Porres (South) — [...]

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, [...]