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“Holy Virgin, Holy Mother, assumed into Heaven, pray for us.”
The witness of Mary needs to be highlighted for the benefit of all women and for the good of all society. In her dual identity […]
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Dominicans pray nine-month novena ahead of September rosary pilgrimage
The Blessed Mother gives the rosary to St. Dominic in the 18th-century painting by Andrea Barbiani of the Madonna with St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Porto in Ravenna, Italy. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/… […]
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New York City parish installs first-ever perpetual adoration chapel in Manhattan
The new perpetual eucharistic adoration chapel at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village in New York City was blessed by Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan on July 30, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno
Boston, Mass., Aug 1, 2023 /… […]
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Pope Francis names Dominican priest and former military chaplain as Alaska’s next bishop
Father Steven Maekawa. / Credit: Photo by Ron Nicholl
Vatican City, Jul 11, 2023 / 10:18 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has named Dominican Father Steven Maekawa, a former active duty military chaplain, as the next bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska.The Vatic… […]
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New report analyzes origins and phenomena behind abuse in France’s St. John community
Father Marie-Dominique Philippe. / Credit: Herwig Reidlinger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paris, France, Jul 2, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The Brothers of St. John Community in France published on June 26 the findings of its internal invest… […]
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Tertiaries of the Church and Saint Catherine of Siena
Practically every Catholic knows about Saint Catherine of Siena, whose feast day is celebrated on April 29. She is popularly remembered for being the last child born into a large family,1 for writing down her […]
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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas unveiled at 700th anniversary of his canonization
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Denver, Colo., Jan 28, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).
The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas has arrived at the Dominican Convent of Toulouse, France, and placed in a new reliquary as the order celebrates the 700th anniversary of the saint’s … […]
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Dominican theologian to German Bishop Bätzing: Support for gay agenda is ‘modernist heresy’
Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Episcopal Conference and one of the two presidents of the German Synodal Path. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig / ACI Press
CNA Newsroom, Nov 23, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Father Nelson Medina, a Dominican prie… […]
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Leading theologian sees a ‘rise in interest in Aquinas’ among young Catholics
Father Thomas Joseph White, O.P. / Pontificia Università di San Tommaso d’Aquino via Flickr.
Vatican City, Sep 22, 2022 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
A new generation of young people are deeply invested in the study of St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Fath… […]
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Nashville Dominican Sisters support Hillbilly Thomists on country music’s most famous stage
Performing as the opening act at the famous Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on Aug. 1, 2022, The Hillbilly Thomists, made up of several Dominican friars, were supported by their female religious counterparts, the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cec… […]