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America Magazine: St. Dominic and His Order’s Legacy of Holiness
This article originally appeared in the December 2, 1916 issue of America to commemorate the Order of Preachers’ 700th Anniversary on December 22, 1916.
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Catholic Herald: How the Dominicans are Bringing Orthodoxy Back to Academia
The Order of Preachers are redoubling their efforts to retake academia. Ten years ago, the Dominican House of Studies (DHS) in Washington, DC established the Thomistic Institute in order to bring their charism to American and British students.
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National Catholic Register: If You Love Science, and Love God, You’ll Love This Event
A new interdisciplinary conference that will probe the connections between faith and science is being held this week at the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.
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National Catholic Register: St. Thomas Aquinas Comes to the Ivy League
One speaker took a “deep dive” into the Thomistic view of civil punishment. Another explored how St. Thomas Aquinas helps us to think about the possibility of life on other worlds. A third lecturer untangled the textual history behind the Hebrew word for God in the Old Testament.
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Catholic World Report: Profits at the Service of People: The Core of Catholic Business Ethics
There is no desire on the Church’s part to micro-manage the contours of commercial pursuits.
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The Michigan Catholic: A Dominican Moment
Since about 2007-08, enrollment at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., the seminary that forms men for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph for the northeastern part of the United States, has seen a steady increase, with more men showing interest in the intellectual and spiritual traditions of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Dominic.
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National Catholic Register: Priests Make Use of Social Media to Reach Their Flocks
. . .Another priest who is active on social media is Dominican Father Thomas Petri, vice president and academic dean at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Father Petri has more than 10,000 followers on Twitter
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National Review: Divine Gift Giving: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
We need this book now because now, more than ever, we need the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and figures like John of Saint Thomas,” Father Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., writes in his introduction to a new English edition of The Gifts of the Holy Spirit by John of St. Thomas
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The Catholic World Report: Catholicism and “Nones”: The Data on Youth and Young Adults
Last year’s news was packed with reports of polling results. Debates over what the data reveal and how best to respond to what they portend saturated talk shows and opinion pieces.
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Catholic Herald: Some Scholars Have Been Undermining the Gospels for Decades
St. Jerome, one of the great Doctors of the Church and the patron saint of Biblical scholars, famously said that “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” Yet in a recent interview, the current Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ, asserted that Jesus’ words, as recorded in the Gospels, are not necessarily what He meant to say.
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