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The Best of Friends

by Kareem Nelson | Apr 16, 2026 | General, News, Praedicare, v2i1

The Best of Friends By Fr. Gabriel O’Donnell, O.P. The lament about the increase in anxiety and the epidemic rise in suicide among the younger generation is often reported by news outlets and in social media. “Why” and “What to do about it” are usually part of...

We Go to God Together

by Kareem Nelson | Apr 16, 2026 | Praedicare, General, Newsletter, v2i1

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.” – G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Mathematicians might...

Brothers Among Brothers in Friendship with Christ

by Kareem Nelson | Apr 16, 2026 | Praedicare, General, Newsletter, v2i1

Brothers Among Brothers in Friendship with Christ By Praedicare Staff For those called to be Dominican Friars, friendship with Christ and in Christ takes on a particular meaning: It is shaped especially within community life. The Friars’ common life is fundamental for...

A Love for Christ, For the Poor, For the Law

by Kareem Nelson | Apr 16, 2026 | Praedicare, General, Newsletter, v2i1

An interview with Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., on helping the nation’s poor access legal services Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., quickly chuckles when he’s addressed not just as “Reverend Father,” but as “Honorable and Reverend Father.” “I don’t use the ‘Honorable’ title ever,”...

The Priceless Gift of Friendship

by Kareem Nelson | Apr 16, 2026 | Praedicare, General, Newsletter, v2i1

If there is one Dominican saint who wants to be your friend, it is St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. While the Church raises up saints as models because of their “heroic virtue,” Christians can learn from St. Pier Giorgio how virtue is practiced in ordinary ways, like the...