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Joining me on today's show to discuss the readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter were Fr. John Farren, O.P., and my brother, Brian Gillen, a professor of theology at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. The University was founded in 1856 by Archdiocese of Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of President Theodore…  » More

On April 29, the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York joined the Dominican community of St. Catherine of Siena in Manhattan to celebrate the priory and parish's patronal feast.  Click above for the homily Archbishop  Dolan delivered at the 12:00 Mass.  This feast day Mass also served as the Fourth Annual Mass for Health Care Workers, an event sponsored by the Dominican…  » More

Below is an English translation of the homily then Fr. Augustine DiNoia, O.P., preached to the members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on their patronal feast in 2004. The Mass celebrated by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Congregation.

Imagine the scene: A cold January day in 1566, one saint kneeling at the feet of another in the Sistine Chapel. St. Charles…  » More

Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P. gave the following homily on April 30, 1991 on the Feast of Pope St. Pius at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts.

The Reform of Pius V:
Our Lady, The Jesuits, & A Racetrack

Michael Gishlieri was both born and baptized on 17 January 1504 in the tiny village of Bosco, then part of the Dutchy of Milan. Sixteen years later in 1520, when he was about to receive…  » More

Fr. Pietrzyk delivered the following feast day homily at the Dominican House of Studies in 2007.

On this day, exactly 435 years ago, lay on his death bed a shepherd. Born of a noble family reduced to poverty as a result of war, Antony Ghislieri spent much of his childhood tending sheep and feeding lambs. This life as a literal shepherd eventually gave way to the life of a metaphorical shepherd.…  » More

In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the feast of Pope St. Pius V is April 30.  In the Extraordinary Form, however, it is May 5.  This year, the Basilica of St. Mary Major will observe the more ancient feast of this Dominican pope by celebrating Mass in his honor according to the usus antiquior (older use) of the Roman Rite, the use introduced to the Church by St. Pius himself in the middle of…  » More

The following is taken from Croatian Conference of Bishops website:

Born in the mountains overlooking the old town of Kotor to the Kosić family, at her baptism she received the name of Katarina. She lived as a shepherdess, brought up in a commendable manner by her pious mother. Katarina asked her parents to allow her to go to Kotor so she could be a better servant of God near the cathedral consecrated…  » More

On April 11, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Dominican nuns of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in North Guilford, CT, rejoiced in the solemn profession of their sister Sarah David of Truth (Sarah J. Eddy). Fr. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Dean of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, was the principal celebrant and homilist of the Profession Mass. Dominican friars from St. Mary's in New Haven,…  » More

The following are excerpts from a lecture delivered by Archbishop Michael Miller, C.S.B., of Vancouver, at the University of St. Thomas in Houston on January 28, 2010.  They were published in the April 14th edition L'Osservatore Romano and are reprinted here with permission.

The Church's "Common Doctor": Aquinas and the Contemporary Catholic University
Archbishop Michael Miller, C.S.B.

St.…  » More