The friars are members of the Order of Preachers, AKA "The Dominicans" and we are members of the Eastern Dominican Province. There are many… » More
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Click above to hear this week's edition of "Word to Life", which disucsses the readings for this Sunday's Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Joining me in the studio as I fill in for Fr. Gillen are Frs. Basil Cole, O.P., and John Chrysostom Kozlowski, O.P.
Also with us over the telephone is Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P., who… » More
Fr. Basil Cole's most recent post on the Bioethics Channel of the Catholic Exchange website.
"How Should Issues of Moral Cooperation Influence Our Choices in Science and Medicine?" creates a scenario that shows how one's innocence and integrity in a moral situation may be more difficult to achieve than one would like.
Fr. Basil Cole, O.P., preaches on the feast of the great Dominican, Saint Antoninus Pierozzi of Florence (1389-1459). Fr. Cole explains some of the extraordinary natural and supernatural dynanics of this friar's life, who was to become the archbishop of Florence. Fr. Cole also gives all of us hope to become true saints of God, each according to the… » More
The work of writing and grading papers for Dominican students and professors will soon earn a summer's reprieve. But the commitment to the intellectual and academic apostolate ought never to flag. Appropriately, as one browses the periodicals in the library of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC), signs of this province's… » More
On July 9th the Dominican Order celebrates the feast of St. John and his companions, martyrs of Gorkum. They were martyred in 1572 in Holland during a period of war between the Dutch and Spanish. During this time anti-Spanish and Protestant soldiers united to form bands of pirates who menaced towns and seaports looking for plunder. Priests and religious… » More