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The Province of St. Joseph of the Dominican Order, sometimes called the "Eastern" province, released some pictures of their novices, who, traditionally, receive the habit on August 8, St. Dominic's feast day. This photo shows the novices who just finished their novitiate together with those coming in. Please pray for them.

A lot of people have heard of the vocations boom among Dominican sisters, especially the communities in Nashville and Ann Arbor. Even Oprah knows about the Ann Arbor sisters. But the "eastern" province of Dominican Friars, officially the Province of St. Joseph, has been having a quiet renaissance of late as well. 21 novices entered last summer. This video, with its serious content and joyful tone, shows why men are flocking to the Dominican Order. Watch the video of 21 novices being vested with the habit of our Holy Father, Saint Dominic. In addition, you can see the 8...

BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a Dominican doctor to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to surgically alter fingerprints of an illegal immigrant for $4,500. Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of conspiring to conceal illegal aliens from detection by law enforcement authorities. Prosecutors say the physician brought surgical equipment, antibiotics and pain medication to a hotel in Woburn and agreed to alter the fingerprints of a government informant for $4,500. They say they have video and audio evidence showing Zaiter-Pou describing to the informant how he would surgically remove...

(kreuz.net) Homo-Dominicans in Branschweig have removed the worst references to unnatural offers of seducation from their website after substantial protests. Till yesterday the propaganda material as well as "homosexual-groups" and homo-networks were openly promoted -- "in place of spreading Gospel and the teaching of the Catholic Church as well as informing about their precautions for the prevention of sexual abuse" -- as the protestant Website 'medrum.de" explained it.

The John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct 26, 2010 / 02:45 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- To accommodate their rapidly growing community, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist announced today that they will purchase the financially beleaguered John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. near the Catholic University of America.The center, which was the brainchild of the now retired Archbishop of Detroit, Cardinal Adam Maida, has been beset by numerous financial difficulties over the years. Intended to be a museum and Catholic intellectual hub, the center borrowed heavily from the Archdiocese...

NORFOLK -- They wake each morning to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and chant it again before they go to sleep. They pray the rosary, spend time in contemplative prayer and gather each Sunday to discuss the Gospel. In almost every way they are like the members of other chapters of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, except they are incarcerated. The chapter, located at Norfolk State Prison, has about 35 members, 17 of whom have made their final profession in the Dominican order. It is the only Dominican chapter in a prison. Ruth Raichle, the Catholic chaplain...

Sister Mary Judith and Sister Francis Mary on Opray Ann Arbor, Mich., Mar 9, 2010 / 06:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In February, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist made an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Since then, almost all the feedback the sisters have received has been overwhelmingly positive the sister's mission director told CNA/EWTN.During their appearance, the sisters fielded questions regarding their vocation and discernment, their vows of poverty and chastity, and their life in community. “I think the main excitement for the sisters comes from the fact that we are glad to have had...

On the Mendicant Orders "The Proposal of a 'Lay Sanctity' Won Many People" VATICAN CITY, JAN. 13, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today during the general audience in Paul VI Hall. * * * Dear Brothers and Sisters, At the beginning of the new year, we look at the history of Christianity, to see how a history develops and how it can be renewed. In it we can see that it is the saints, guided by the light of God, who are the genuine reformers of the life of the Church and of...

Catholics Teach the Children of New Orleans Since the Katrina disaster, the schools of the Archdiocese of New Orleans have swelled to double the enrollment of the local public schools -- 40,000 to 20,000. Rev. Neal McDermott, O.P., superintendent of the Catholic schools, told me yesterday that the archdiocese is facing a financial crunch when the $10 million in Catholic Charities money, allocated in 2006 to help the schools following the hurricane, runs out. "Beginning in June 2010, we will have to find $700,000 a year to replace those funds," he said. (Gov. Bobby Jindal eased some of the financial...

I can offer you the Nashville Dominican Postulants ... Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post has a patronizing yet grudgingly positive article on the Nashville Dominicans, who are opening a high school in the Arlington Diocese. The piece is framed, somewhat facetiously, along the lines of a business-section feature about a successful marketing ploy, focusing on the externals of a well-ordered religious life. Most Catholics readers will understand that more than a change of uniform is at work: In her floor-length white habit with black veil and a rosary around her waist, [Sister Mary Jordan] Hoover is the picture of...

Holland is the kind of country I have no hope for, barring a miracle. Here another nail in the coffin, via The Tablet The Dominican Order in the Netherlands has issued a radical recommendation that lay ministers chosen by their congregations should be allowed to celebrate the Eucharist if no ordained priests are available. In a booklet posted to all 1,300 parishes in the country, it says that the Church should drop its priest-centred model of the Mass in favour of one built around a community sharing bread and wine in prayer. "Whether they are women or men, homo-...

Back in the habit, young nuns on the rise Click on the link for the story. This is the only way to post this wonderful story!

Sister Mary Pia, wearing a threadbare habit, spoke from behind the bars of her gated parlor about the power of prayer. "Hollywood is the Babylon of the U.S.A.," she said. "For people who need prayers, we have to be here." Just two long blocks from her monastery, you are in the thick of the electric lights of Hollywood Boulevard: among the dopers, the runaways, the homeless, the sex salesmen. Sister Mary Pia said she prays for all of them, while knowing virtually nothing about them. There is nothing ironic about this, she said: "One doesn't need to be of it...

August 8, 2006 Saint Dominic, priest Psalm: Tuesday 33 Reading 1Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 The following message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel:Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book. For thus says the LORD:Incurable is your wound,grievous your bruise;There is none to plead your cause,no remedy for your running sore,no healing for you.All your lovers have forgotten you,they do not seek you.I struck you as an enemy would strike,punished you cruelly;Why cry out over your wound?your pain is without relief.Because of your great guilt,your numerous sins,I have...

August 8, 2005Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest Psalm: Monday 35 Reading IDt 10:12-22 Moses said to the people:"And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of youbut to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly,to love and serve the LORD, your God,with all your heart and all your soul,to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORDwhich I enjoin on you today for your own good?Think! The heavens, even the highest heavens,belong to the LORD, your God,as well as the earth and everything on it.Yet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so...

It is a wasteland. Street after street razed in a scene that looks like a natural disaster. The hundreds of thousands who have been left homeless are calling it Zimbabwe's tsunami. But man, not nature, is to blame for the destruction enveloping this country.The full force of Robert Mugabe's state is destroying homes and lives in what it calls Operation Restore Order. But all that can be seen is chaos and trauma. There is no compassion, only carefully executed brutality. At Hatcliffe orphanage, run by Dominican sisters, the nuns, workers and 180 orphans were given a day to get out...

ARTICLES March 2005 ARTICLES LETTERS NEWS FOLLOW ME ROAMIN' CATHOLIC CALENDAR Contents © 2005 by Jim Holman. All rights reserved. sffaith@sti.net More Than A Witch Hunt Dominicans Under Fire in Oakland Editor's note: The following story was to appear in our February issue. The day before deadline, however, I received a call from a Dominican priest asking me to pull the story. The priest told me he could give me information that would put the situation at St. Albert's Priory in perspective. I agreed I would at least hold the story for another month and arranged to talk with...

In response to a layman questioning whether or not it was appropriate for the Dominicans to ordain to the priesthood a once married, divorced, then-partnered homosexual activist to the priesthood, the undersecretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, P. Jesus Torres, C.F.M., declared that the issue is up to that individual’s Dominican superiors. Patrick Baikauskas, subject of a December 2002 feature article in the Illinois Times, in which he revealed his life story as a divorced gay activist, is currently studying for the Dominican Order of Preachers at...

Nuns say prison won't kill their spirit of protest Thursday, July 24, 2003By Charles Honey Press Religion Editor The Catholic sisters have been in jail before, after breaking into U.S. military bases to pour their own blood on weapons and symbolically hammer against warfare. But on Friday, three Grand Rapids-based Dominican nuns face sentences in a Denver federal court far harsher than any they ever have received -- raising protests that they are paying an unjustified price because of the U.S. crackdown on terrorism. Sisters Jackie Hudson, Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert are to be sentenced for their protest at...