Brothers

Brother Pius Henry was born in Reading, Massachusetts. He attended Reading Memorial High School and had the opportunity to travel to South America three times with his home parish on mission trips where he had the opportunity to work with the poor. After high school he proceeded to The Catholic University of America to study Read more…

Brother Macarius Bunch grew up with his younger brother and sister in Houston, TX where he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church. He received a B.S. in English Language & Literature and a B.S. in Information Technology from Indiana State University, where he was working as an IT Manager before entering the Read more...

Brother John Henry Peters was born in San Diego, California and grew up in Saline, Michigan. He is the fourth of six children. He became interested in the priesthood while an altar server at St. Thomas the Apostle parish in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After being homeschooled, he studied philosophy (B.A.) and theology (M.A., S.T.B.) as Read more...

Brother Linus Martz grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he and his family attended St. Joseph Parish. While studying philosophy at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, he became familiar with the Dominicans first through their history and then through meeting the friars in Washington, DC and in Rome. “As I came to know the Read more…

Brother Nicodemus Thomas is from Waltham, Massachusetts where he was raised in a family of four and attended St. Mary’s Church. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied Philosophy. It was as a student at Providence College that Brother Nicodemus first encountered the Dominicans. “The beautiful liturgy, eloquent preaching, and authentic charity of the Read more…

Brother Titus Sanchez was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas where he attended St. Andrew’s Catholic Church with his family. He studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, receiving degrees in Marketing and History. He first met the Dominicans through a mission trip to Alaska with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). Read more…

Brother Basil Burroughs was born in Singapore as the younger of two sons in a Canadian diplomatic family. After growing up in several countries in Asia, he moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he studied Economics at Queen’s University. While attending university, Br. Basil converted to Catholicism and received his first sacraments at St. Mary’s Cathedral Read more…

Brother Bertrand is from Louisiana and was raised in the small town of Crowley, just west of Lafayette. Along with his mother and three older sisters, he attended St. Michael the Archangel Church while he was growing up. He earned both a bachelor’s and Licentiate in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, Read more…

Brother Gregory Santy grew up the older of two children in Syracuse, New York and attended St. Daniel Parish with his family.  As a junior in college, he entered formation with the Diocese of Syracuse and was sent to study as a Basselin Scholar at The Catholic University of America where he graduated with a Read more…

Brother Jude Grieshaber grew up in Orland Park, IL, where he and his family attended St. Francis of Assisi Parish. After studying chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in January 2011 his job search brought him to Cincinnati, OH, where he first encountered the Dominicans at St. Gertrude Church; it was there Read more…

Brother Louis Bethea grew up in Springfield, VA and is the older of two children. His family members are long-time parishioners of St. Michael Church in Annandale, VA. He earned a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 2008 and a master of science in polymer engineering from the University of Akron Read more…

Br. Cyril Stola grew up in rural Huntington Mills, Pennsylvania where he attended Saint Martha’s Church with his family.  He studied economics at New York University where he met the Dominican Friars through the campus chaplaincy. “The preaching of the Dominicans at NYU introduced me to the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition and brought Read more…