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Pandemic or no pandemic, the Good News must still be preached. Let us pray, then, for those faithfully labouring in the vineyard of the Lord, and that others may respond with generosity to the Lord's call to live a life as a friar in the Order of Preachers, and in particular the Province of England.  Read more

How the Dominican Friars in Britain have responded to the Coronavirus Crisis Read more

GLOBAL ROSARY RALLY FOR THE WHOLE DOMINICAN FAMILY! Read more

At 12 noon on Monday, 9 December, 2019, an academic procession entered the beautiful Raeburn Room at Old College, Edinburgh. The procession was made up of four people in full ­academic attire: a beadle carrying an academic mace; Professor Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh; Professor David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh; and Fr Fergus Kerr, Dominican friar and member of the Edinburgh Dominican Community. The occasion was the conferral of the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity on Fr Fergus for his many contributions to Scottish Catholic Theology.  Read more

Following his re-election by the Province of England last week, Fr Martin Ganeri OP, Prior Provincial, has written the following message to share with all friends of the Province at this time of isolation. Read more

On 29th February 2020, five Dominican friars gathered in Stirling for the reburial of a friar whose remains were discovered a few years ago in the town. Read more

Fr Simon Francis Gaine, OP, former Regent of Blackfriars, has been appointed to the new Pinckaers Chair in Theological Anthropology and Ethics, at the Angelicum beginning in the academic year 2020-21.  Read more

Br Albert Robertson OP writes about the collaboration between the Washington DC-based 'Thomistic Institute' and the brothers in Blackfriars and the Aquinas Institute in Oxford, and its potency for creating communion between scholars, students, and seekers who are interested in the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition.  Read more

On the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary this year, the Master of the Order appointed our brother, Lawrence Lew OP, to serve as Promoter General for the Rosary. Read more

Fr Toby Lees OP, who was ordained this summer and is completing his Licence in Sacred Theology in Rome, reviews the movie Paterson (2016, starring Adam Driver) and recommends it for its Advent themes.  Read more