From April 22 to 25, 2025, friars from different Provinces gathered together at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila, Philippines, for the first assembly of Dominican canonists in the Order. In the most recent General Chapter held in Tultenango, Mexico, the capitulars recognized the essential role of a canon lawyer in the structure and life of a province…
Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, OP, Archbishop of Algiers (Algeria), Archbishop Francis Leo, Archbishop of Toronto (Canada) and Brother Timothy Radcliffe, OP, are among the 21 new Cardinals to be created by Pope Francis at the Consistory to be held on 8 December. The Pope made the announcement on Sunday 6 October, after praying the Angelus with the faithful and pilgrims present in St Peter’s Square.
The 10th General Assembly of the International Confederation of Dominican Sisters (DSIC) will take place from 11 to 16 May 2025 in Rome, with the aim of reflecting, discerning and establishing strategic guidelines for the next three years. The triennial Assembly, whose theme this year is ‘Widows and midwives… when past and future meet,’ will be an opportunity to reflect…
On Saturday, April 12, 2025, the Dominican Province of St. Thomas Aquinas of Belgium and the Netherlands hosted “Art and Preaching: Art as a Form of Preaching”, a province-wide gathering of the Dominican Laity held at the historic St. Paul’s Church in Antwerp. The keynote speaker, Fr. Cristóbal Torres, OP, Promoter for the Dominican Laity, gave a presentation on the history…
From April 4-7, 2025, the current officers of the International Commission of Lay Dominican Fraternities (ICLDF) met in Rome, at Santa Sabina, for their first in-person gathering. Among those present were: Dr. Sébastian Milazzo, OP, International Coordinator of the Dominican Laity and President of the European Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities (ECLDF), from France; Mrs. Margareth Velásquez, OP, President of…
Rome, March 26, 2025 — From March 18 to March 26, the Convent of Santa Sabina, the seat of the General Curia of the Order of Preachers in Rome, hosted seven Provincials who attended the annual workshop designed for recently elected or re-elected priors provincial. The Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, along with all members…
The Dominican friars of the Province of St. Augustine in Argentina and Chile present the video documentary album We Have Seen His Glory. The production includes 18 liturgical songs of the Easter Triduum—most of them original and others taken from the classical and Gregorian repertoire—presented together with images and interviews that illustrate their meaning and the profound experiences of friars…
To mark the beatification of Monsignor Profittlich, the Dominican Family is organizing a continuous reading of the names of the 22,601 Estonians who died during the Soviet occupation. Date: 15 May 2025, 3.50 PM – 16 May, around 1 PM Place: Medieval Dominican Priory in Tallinn (entrance through Theatrum, Vene street 14) and the YouTube channel. Organiser: Dominican friars and…
‘Meditations on Truth’ is the title of the latest book by Fray Felicísimo Martínez Díez, OP, published on 12 March 2025. In this work, Brother Felicísimo offers a series of meditations on truth and addresses his search for it in specific areas of life, proposing the figure of St Thomas Aquinas as a reference point for the defence of truth and as an example that serves as inspiration to believers and non-believers alike.
The volume, edited by the art historians Émilie Roffidal and Claire Rousseau, is dedicated to the iconography of St. Thomas Aquinas –an important figure in the history of the Order, the Church and intellectual history– on the occasion of his triple jubilee: 700 years since his canonisation, 750 years since his death and 800 years since his birth, celebrated from 28 January 2023 to 28 January 2025. Nine contributions by various authors deal with the beginnings and spread of the iconography of St. Thomas and the historical-spiritual context in which such representations were disseminated.