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Posted on November
10, 2008 |
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Readers
Respond to Election of Barack Obama
Thank
you for your swift responses to the election of Barack Obama to the
US Presidency. There were about 85 replies all together, most of
which were overwhelmingly positive and about ten expressed very heartfelt
concern about the issue of abortion and pro-life policies. We received
several from Dominicans around the world. READ
A SAMPLING HERE
International Dominicans Visit USA
RIVER
FOREST, IL --November 10, 2008 -- Two representatives of international Dominican
organizations recently visited the United States, Maria Fabiola
Veslasquez Maya, OP (Presentation) who is the International Coordinator
of Dominican Sisters International and Toni Harris, OP (Sinsinawa) International
Co-Promoter of Justice and Peace. READ
MORE
Switching Sisters: Living with Another Community
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
MORE
Monument to Dominican Martyrs Dedicated
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
MORE
Providence College Professor Produces Films
on Human Rights
PROVIDENCE,
RI - November 10, 2008 --Ken Gumbert, is an award
winning film-maker and Associate Professor in the Theater, Dance and
Drama Department at Providence College where he also runs the movie
making program. His films principally explore the lives and situations
of people deprived of human, legal, and religious rights. “Red
Terror on the Amber Coast” is his latest production. READ
MORE
Dominican University: Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto
Contemplative Spot Offers Students a Quiet Place of Prayer
RIVER
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
MORE
SPECIAL
REPORT: Synod of Bishops on the Bible |
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
Recent Dominican Books
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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