International gathering at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei will bring scholars together in May, with a celebratory concert in Santa Maria della Scala ROME — A major international conference in Rome this May will place the philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas at the center of renewed scholarly attention, offering a lively conclusion to the trilogy of anniversaries marking the…
Religious Brothers Day on May 1 invites prayer for the vocation and witness of Dominican cooperator brothers On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, the Religious Brothers Conference observes Religious Brothers Day. The day is a moment to give thanks for the lives of men who have consecrated themselves wholly to Christ as brothers and to pray…
On the feast of Algeria’s martyrs, a new pope heard the invitation to visit Africa … and said yes. Next week Pope Leo XIV lands in Algiers, becoming the first pontiff to set foot in the land of St. Augustine. “Assalamu alaikum,” he will tell a Muslim nation: “Peace be with you.” And Algeria just might answer back. During the…
ROME — The Master of the Order of Preachers, fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, has appointed fr. John Baptist Đoàn Bình Minh, OP, as the new Syndic Ordinis (Syndic of the Order), effective April 5, 2026. In an official decree addressed to the Vietnamese Dominican, the Master praised fr. John Baptist’s “zeal for the good of the Order” as…
Easter Sunday Rome, 5 April 2026 Prot. 50/26/160 Letters to the Order “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (John 20:21) Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Lord is risen, alleluia! “We are an Easter people,” as Augustine of Hippo reminds us, and “alleluia is our song.” Yet the most profound greeting of this holy…
Dominican friars in the United States and the United Kingdom are reporting a notable rise this Easter in adults entering the Catholic Church. Across various ministries, friars describe growing numbers of catechumens and candidates, many of them young people. In San Francisco, that trend is visible in especially striking numbers. At St. Dominic’s Parish, nearly 100 people will enter the…
At Indiana University, an extraordinary football season became the backdrop for something even deeper: a moment of spiritual renewal on campus. As St. Paul’s Catholic Center experienced striking growth alongside the team’s rise, its pastor, fr. Patrick Hyde, OP, reflects on evangelization, student discipleship, mercy, and the unexpected ways grace can work through public excitement, personal humility, and shared victory.…
Dear sisters, dear brothers, The full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine has continued for over four years. Every new anniversary of its beginning has been filled with the hope that it might be the last year of war. Unfortunately, the long-awaited peace still seems distant. Father Misha showed me a picture taken in Fastiv during the Mass celebrated at the…
Dominican Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe speaks to Vatican News about his ongoing visit to Ukraine, and the importance of prayer and Christian hope in times of conflict. By Fr. Mariusz Krawiec, SSP Dominican Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is visiting war-torn Ukraine in order to express his support and solidarity to the local Church, and the communities of the Order of Preachers. He…
JERUSALEM – As new violence erupted in the Middle East, a Dominican friar in Jerusalem was releasing a book on the Holy City as a place of peace. The book, Gerusalemme: Un cuore di pace, by fr. Olivier Catel, OP, has just appeared in Italian. A member of the Dominican community at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem,…
