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Dr Andrew Meszaros, an alumnus of Blackfriars Hall, reflects on the theological meaning of human history, in an abridged version of his Aquinas Lecture given in Oxford and Cambridge. Read more

Br Richard Steenvoorde OP, ordained to the diaconate at Blackfriars, Oxford, on Sunday 21st January, reflects on the meaning of service to others, and the graces received from others.  Read more

It has been a time of significant transition in Leicester as we approach the 200th anniversary in 2019 of the opening of a Dominican church at Holy Cross. Read more

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, former Master of the Order of Preachers, revisited Iraq in December. He reports on communities rebuilding lives shattered by Da‘esh. Read more

This Spring sees a new transatlantic Dominican partnership between our Province and the St Joseph Province in the east of the USA. This involves in particular the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford, and St Dominic's Church (the Rosary Shrine) in London, working with the Thomistic Institute (TI) based at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington D.C. Read more

Richard Steenvoorde OP was ordained to the diaconate at Blackfriars, Oxford, on 21st January 2018, the Dutch Province's first ordination in a couple of decades. Br Stefan, a novice of the Dutch Province currently living in Cambridge, reports on the occasion. Read more

Fr Nicholas Crowe OP reflects on the vocation of all the baptised. Read more

Among the hard questions debated at recent events of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice (based at Blackfriars, Oxford) has been whether our Western democracies have delivered good government; in particular, whether they protect our fundamental human dignity, and keep their citizens from a demeaning poverty. If they don't, what's going wrong? Read more

Br Joseph Bailham OP describes a recent youth pilgrimage to Piedmont, Italy. Read more

 Original cloister gates restored and re-erected. Read more