Fr. Vincent Ferrer Bagan grew up in Waseca, a small town in southern Minnesota, with his parents, the late Thomas and Claudette Bagan, and his sister, Tierney. He attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in music education, and Ave Maria University, in Ave Maria, Florida, where Read more...
Fr. Thomas More Garrett, O.P., made solemn profession in the Order of Preachers in 2012 and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Charles Brown, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, on May 22, 2015, in Washington, DC. Before entering the Dominicans he practiced law and worked as a Congressional staffer. In private practice, his work focused Read more…
Fr. Philip Neri Reese grew up just outside Annapolis, Maryland, where his family attended St. Mary's Parish. His father is a high-school teacher, his mother is a nurse, and he has two younger sisters. He attended Dickinson College, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, double-majoring in philosophy and religious studies. Brother Philip Neri Read more...
Fr. John Maria Devaney was raised in Clinton, NJ the youngest of three children of John and Helen Devaney and attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School and Immaculata High School both in Somerville, NJ. Father John attended Emerson College in Boston, MA and graduated with a B.A. in communications, with a concentration in audio/radio. For 15 years Read more…
Fr. Innocent Smith was born in California and raised in South Bend, Indiana, where his family attended Sacred Heart Parish. Br. Innocent studied music and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating from Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts, Br. Innocent entered the novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph. “When I Read more…
Fr. Gabriel Torretta was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, the youngest of four children. He was raised Presbyterian and converted to Catholicism in high school. He attended Arizona State University, where he earned a B.A. in Japanese, after which he entered a PhD program at Columbia University in pre-modern Japanese literature. He joined the Read more…
Fr. Charles Shonk grew up in Lancaster, Ohio as the youngest of four boys. He first met the Dominicans at St. Patrick Church in Columbus. He is a graduate of Denison University, where he earned a B.A. degree in Latin and Philosophy. Before entering the Order, he worked as a schoolteacher in New York City Read more…
Fr. Charles Shonk grew up in Lancaster, Ohio as the youngest of four boys. He first met the Dominicans at St. Patrick Church in Columbus. He is a graduate of Denison University, where he earned a B.A. degree in Latin and Philosophy. Before entering the Order, he worked as a schoolteacher in New York City and attended St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan. “‘Grace perfects nature,’ says St. Thomas. Although many things drew me to the Dominican Order, perhaps most compelling was encountering friars who were walking proof of this principle—whose faith enhanced their humanity, whose piety could confidently affirm all that is naturally good, true, and beautiful.”
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Fr. Boniface Endorf was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father is a physics professor at the University of Cincinnati, and his mother was a chemical engineer. He also has a brother who studies history. He met the Dominicans at St. Gertrude’s Parish in Cincinnati. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Read more…