Last month on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. preached the homily at a solemn Mass in St. Vincent Ferrer parish, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He then led a procession of the faithful, under police escort, into the...
On the eve of the Annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage in Washington D.C., Dominican friars Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. and Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., gave a talk on the virtues of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. The friars gathered with their audience after an hour of...
How close can a work of art get us to God? In the case of Benvenuto di Giovanni’s Christ in Limbo, the answer is pressingly close. The central drama of this medieval depiction of Christ’s descent to the dead involves two antithetical forms of closeness: one...
In this first episode of Aquinas 101: The Sacraments (Season 3), Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., explains why the Sacraments matter in the worship of God.