Dear Sisters, Dear Brothers, There is a painted icon of Our Lady Orans of Kyiv on the wall of a street bomb shelter in Kherson. These small, safe shelters made out of cement, located at bus stops, are called “hideouts” in Ukrainian. The original of the icon is found in a mosaic on the dome of the Sophia Sobor, one…
On 12 May 2023, Fr. Nuno Duarte da Silva Queirós, priest of the Diocese of Aveiro (Portugal), was admitted to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Dominic at Vespers in the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine, in Rome. The celebration, during which he received the habit and the rule of the priestly fraternities, was presided by the Postulator General of the Order…
On 28 April, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Lay Dominican and President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position.
On 1 May 2023, during the canonical visitation of the Vicariate of Ukraine (Province of Poland), the Master of the Order solemnly awarded the diploma and medal ‘Benemerenti’ to the volunteers of the St. Martin de Porres Centre in Fastiv, about 30 kilometres from Kiiv.
The Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto hosted a conference on Dominican liturgical research on March 6th and 7th, 2023, with specialists and Dominican friars from seven different provinces in attendance.
On the morning of the Solemnity of the Annunciation, 25 March 2023, Most Rev. Francis (Frank) Leo was officially installed at the St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica, succeeding Cardinal Thomas Collins.
The workshop for new Provincials took place at the General Curia from 8 to 15 March. The Master of the Order, Br Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, together with the members of the Curia and twelve new provincials who have recently been elected or re-elected, gathered in Santa Sabina. In this workshop, the provincials had the opportunity to familiarise themselves…
The 2023 edition of the Constitutions of the Dominican Friars has been published. The new official Latin edition, formally entitled Liber Constitutionum et Ordinationum Fratrum Ordinis Prædicatorum (Book of Constitutions and Ordinations of the Friars of the Order of Preachers), but known more commonly simply as “LCO”, contains all the changes made up to and including the General Chapter of Tultentango (Mexico)…
The friars of the Ibn-e-Mariam Vice Province of Pakistan, elected Br. Pascal Paulus, OP, as their new Prior Vice Provincial on 27 February 2023, during the Elective Chapter (26 February to 4 March 2023) held at Ibn-e-Mariam House of Studies, Pak Arab, Lahore. With the confirmation of the Master of the Order, Br. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, Br. Pascal accepted this responsibility on the same day with a sense of gratitude and a spirit of service.
The Apostolic Penitentiary, with the intention of heightening the devotion of the faithful and for the salvation of their souls, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it in a very special way by Francis, Pope by divine providence from our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, considering the prayers recently addressed to it by the Reverend Gerard Timoner III,…
