Those who seek to advance the Catholic Church’s teaching regarding the sanctity of life confront both new challenges and opportunities in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. On the one hand, many people in the U.S. and in other developed nations have increasingly accepted abortion as a Read more…
Read MoreThe YouTube channel of the Dominican Friars Foundation has been producing some wonderful videos of late that highlight the beauty of vocational life. Following young men as they discern their vocations as friars within the Order of Preachers, the high-quality videos offer talks, behind-the-scenes glimpses of religious life both public and private, and touching Read more…
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Father Thomas Joseph White, a bestselling author, professor, and a core member of Dominican music group The Hillbilly Thomists, has been awarded the title of master of sacred theology, an accolade of the order that recognizes an individual’s achievements of scholarship and theological work. “I’m very grateful to the master of the order and Read more…
Read MoreFr. Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ: What do you consider the greatest challenge to the “rational credibility of Christianity”? Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.: Challenges to Christianity change from epoch to epoch and across different cultures in a given age, including our own. Today in the northern hemisphere there are two central challenges to Christian Read more…
Read MoreAs the saying goes, “Every good thing begins in prayer,” and the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph are living this adage. The friars have announced the commencement of a 9-month novena to pray for the flourishing of their second annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage. The novena will start on Jan. 27 and Read more…
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With the recent ordination of five of our brothers to the priesthood of Jesus Christ, so many souls will encounter the mercy of Christ in the confessional, so many souls will receive the Eucharist at the Masses they celebrate, and so many souls will discover the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition (especially the Thomist tradition) through their preaching!
Read MoreThis year we thank God for the ordination of five Dominican friars to the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Throughout their lives each of these men will preach the saving truth of Jesus Christ, baptize, absolve sins, and celebrate Mass for many thousands of souls.
Read MoreFr. Frassati said it goes a long way when someone speaks your language. “To be a priest who’s able to communicate in their language is to see that there is a care.”
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Eucharistic procession through a city or any location is not just about publicly showing off, but has a deep spiritual meaning for each pilgrim, each disciple, to walk behind the Lord, to follow him to a life of blessedness.
Read MoreJoin the Dominican Friars and Sisters and thousands of pilgrims at the upcoming national Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage!
Read MoreAs he tells the story, it simply dawned on Fr. James Brent, O.P., one Christmas Octave several years ago that God wants to raise up contemplative souls in the Church—people who have truly heard, and take seriously, the universal call to contemplative prayer.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas says that the sacrament of Holy Orders is necessary for the Church, for otherwise the people would collapse. The Ordination Mass demonstrates that the Church is strong!
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