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What Is The New Evangelization?

On September 12, 2012, Archbishop J. Augustine DiNoia, OP, the Vice President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, offered the…

Preacher’s Sketchbook: Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Each week, a Dominican member of the Province of St. Joseph’s Preaching Advisory Board prepares this Preacher’s Sketchbook in anticipation…

Salt of the Earth

Last weekend a dozen Mormon volunteers helped me to clear out my mother’s flooded home in Belle Harbor (Rockaway Beach)…

New Website for Dominicana Journal

We are pleased to announce that Dominicana, the journal of the Dominican student brothers in Washington, has a new website: www.dominicanajournal.com…

Praying for our Deceased Brethren

On Sunday, November 4th, the Friars of the Priory of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., made their annual visit…

A Dominican Priest in the Trenches

November 10 is the Marine Corps birthday, and the Province remembers its own Dominican “Devil Dog” Fr. Quitman Francis Beckley,…

For Whom the Bell Tolls

“There probably still is God after all, although we have abolished him.” Ernest Hemmingway It was a time of political…

Vigil of All Saints Makes Debut in Baltimore

In celebration of the Feast of All Saints, over one hundred of the faithful gathered at SS. Philip & James…

The Affordable Care Act and the Catholic Church

In the past few months, as the presidential election has continued to draw to a conclusion, Fr. Ezra Sullivan, O.P.,…