On the Eve of Ordination
A poet once called God “the hound of heaven,” and in every priestly vocation there are moments ...
Br. Philip Nolan, O.P.
Br. Philip Nolan entered the Order of Preachers in 2015. He is a graduate of Williams College and spent two years in New York City working in journalism before joining the Order. On DominicanFriars.org
On Obedience to the Church: A Lesson from Philip Neri and Girolamo Savonarola
We typically think of obedience as a child’s virtue, but even as adults we are led where we do ...
Talking Back: A Scriptural Solution to Spiritual Immaturity
I remember a young family sitting in front of me at Mass some years ago. With no warning, one ...
Pornography and American Pelagianism
It is a truism that God can draw good out of evil. Perhaps more surprising is the truth that ...
Angelic Violations of CDC Guidelines
Officials were recently alerted to an event at which thousands of people crammed themselves ...
Nor Things to Come
Imagine your life up to now as a timeline, scrawled in marker, taped to a wall. How would you ...
A Divided Mind
The apostle James warns that “a man of two minds” is “unstable in all his ways” (Jas 1:8). ...
Rest for the Pilgrim
“When will I come to the end of my pilgrimage and enter the presence of God?” When will my ...
Sacrifice, Then and Now
On a good day, perhaps, we remember to “offer up” our sufferings. We might say, for example, ...
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