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,…
JERUSALEM — As the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran early Saturday, the Dominican friars of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem received a government alert during morning prayer directing them to take shelter. “So to make it short, to make short a long story, this morning we received an alert just getting out of the…
