Brothers

Br. Nicholas Hartman grew up the oldest of six children in Carmel, Indiana, attending Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish with his family. After graduating high school he attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Inspired the works of St. Thomas, he studied philosophy and graduated in May 2015. After graduating, he studied for a year Read more…

Brother Dominic Koester is from Delphos, Ohio, and is the first of three children.  His family are parishioners of St. John Catholic Church, and he attended the parish school from kindergarten through his senior year of high school.  He was a diocesan seminarian and studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum, and then worked for a Read more…

Brother Juan Macias Marquez grew up in Midland, Texas where his family attended San Miguel Arcangel Catholic Church. He pursued collegiate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. His junior year he met the Dominican Friars through the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) while on retreats and Read more…

Brother Luke VanBerkum hails from outside of Detroit, Michigan, where he attended St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church with his family. He is the second of seven children. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in Philosophy and Theology. While in college, Brother Luke was attracted to the Order because Read more…

Brother Michael Donahue was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, was raised in Moorhead, Minnesota, and attended the Catholic schools in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the fourth of five children, and his family attended Nativity Parish in Fargo. He graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics. Read more…

Br. Raymond La Grange was born in St. Albert, Canada, the second of seven children. Growing up, he attended Holy Family Parish in St. Albert. He earned a degree in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Alberta. Before entering the order, he volunteered for a year in a homeless shelter in New York with Read more…

Fr. Sebastian White, O.P., appeared on EWTN’s The Journey Home to talk about his conversion to Roman Catholicism and his vocation as a Dominican Friar. Fr. Sebastian currently serves as editor-in-chief of Magnificat magazine.