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Sculptor Cody Swanson explains the creation of the central statue for the new Rosary Garden.
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On 13 July 2019, the Order of Preachers welcomed the 87th successor of St. Dominic, in the person of Fr. Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III, OP, a son of the Dominican Province of the Philippines and first Asian Master of the Order. Read more

Exciting news from the Dominicans in Oxford: works are already underway to create more space for Blackfriars and its important educational apostolate by converting a nearby building.  Read more

Rt Hon Ruth Kelly: ‘Creating change: reflections on government, education and faith’
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Following the Fatima centenary in 2017, an apparition in which Our Lady of the Rosary urged the praying of the Rosary, Eternal Word Television Network commissioned a special feature about the devotion of the Holy Rosary, which is intimately connected to St Dominic and his Order. Read more

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Anthony Fisher O.P., Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, recently paid a brief visit to Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Read more

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The renowned papal biographer and commentator on politics both secular and ecclesiastical, George Weigel, will be giving a lecture at London's Rosary Shrine. Read more

Two or three times a year, St Dominic's Convent, Stone, hosts a St Thomas Aquinas Study Weekend.

These weekends focus on an aspect of our Catholic Faith, on what it means to be human, for example; or on the Passion of Our Lord, or the faith of Our Lady. The topics are studied under the guidance of St Thomas Aquinas, who in his Summa Theologiae (Summary of Theology) has left us both rich material and a helpful method of approach. His teaching method is based on his understanding of how we learn: how we build new material into or onto our current grasp of the subject being considered. It is a slow method, but designed to develop understanding, rather than relying on memory. Read more