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Fr. Shah was clothed in the Dominican habit in 2003 and ordained to the priesthood in 2009. His earlier studies were in religion, philosophy, and education. He is an adult convert. Before entering the Order, he worked for a high school run by the (French) Christian Brothers on the Lower East-Side, NY, NY; he taught in the Literature and Religion departments for three years. It was during this time that he discerned his call to an active, priestly ministry, focused on doctrinal preaching, and necessarily flowing from contemplative study and communal religious observance.
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Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., preaches on the feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P. (1350 - 1419), celebrated by the Dominican Order on May 5. (The Roman calendar holds this memorial on April 5.) Fr. Ku discusses the amazing power of St. Vincent Ferrer's preaching, which, like that of St. Dominic, proceeded from his deep love for souls and their eternal welfare.
Fr. Ku teaches dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC). (Go here to see Parts One and Two of Fr. Ku's well known talk on Humanae Vitae.)