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Respond to Election of Barack Obama RACINE,
WI - October 27, 2008 -- In an effort to learn more about one another’s
community, three Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters recently spent a week at
Siena Center, motherhouse of the Racine Dominicans, while three Racine
Dominicans stayed at the Sinsinawa Mound for the week. READ
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PONCHATOULA,
LA --On Oct. 11, 2008 a monument to Dominican friars of the Spanish Holy
Rosary Province who were martyred in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War
was dedicated in the Dominican Cemetery at Rosaryville northwest of New
Orleans in Louisiana. These six Dominicans had been beatified by Pope
Benedict XVI on Oct. 28, 2007 at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. READ
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FOREST, IL October 27 2008 --Amidst Dominican University’s neo-Gothic
academic buildings that teem with students and activities, the Shrine
to Our Lady of Lourdes—more commonly known as the Grotto—has
remained a quiet and contemplative area of campus for almost 80 years. READ
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Pope Closes Synod, Says Bible Is Put Into Practice Through Service Pope Benedict XVI closed the Synod of Bishops on the Bible by preaching a lesson on love of God and neighbor, saying the word of God must be put into practice through service to others. READ MORE Unclear if pope will support women officially in lector ministry Probably the most newsy -- and somewhat unexpected -- item in the final propositions of the Synod of Bishops on the Bible was a proposal to allow women to be installed officially in the ministry of lector. READ MORE Intervention of fr. Carlos Aspiroz Costa: The “primacy” of the Holy Scripture has its basis precisely in Trinitarian life. (PDF) Interview with Sr. Viviana Ballarin, OP who participated at the XII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. READ MORE In Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City, author Robert A. Burns, OP, explores ways Catholics have been called upon to develop their spiritual lives in the most religious pluralistic society that has ever existed. READ MORE The Spanish translation of Barbara Reid's book, Parables for Preachers, Year B has just appeared: Las Parabolas: Predicandolas Y Viviendolas (Liturgical Press, 2008). READ MORE Women Preaching Justice has been proposed as a follow-up to the very successful and widely sought after: Preaching Justice: Dominican Contributions to Social Ethics in the Twentieth Century. Read a review and proposal from Ruth Casper, OP READ MORE The Beautiful Circle of Friends, by Paschala Noonan, OP is a new pictorial history of the Dominican sisters of St. Catharine, KY, a companion to a previous book: Signadou published in 1997, READ MORE Faith and Film The Secret Life of Bees Tom Condon checks in with the Sue Monk Kidd book brought to the big screen: The Secret Life of Bees. Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning lead an excellent cast in a story about race and relationships in the Deep South. READ MORE |
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