Who We Were, Who We’ve Become: a Brief History of U.S. Dominicans

Who We Were, Who We’ve Become: a Brief History of U.S. Dominicans

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of...

What is O.P.?

The short answer is: O.P. stands for the ‘Order of Preachers,’ the name of the Dominican Order. But, why are Dominicans called the Order of Preachers? The answer necessitates a look back at history, back at Saint Dominic himself. In 1170, Domingo Félix de Guzmán was...

Day Six of the Fanjeaux Pilgrimage: God Chooses Us

We had been in France for a week, and I didn’t have any huge realizations about life, just a few very simple ones, a few smoothed shells plucked from the shore of the sea. We climbed up to the town Saint Paul de Vence all of us in a minivan; the full-size van...
Day Five of the Fanjeaux Pilgrimage: The Call to be Itinerant

Day Five of the Fanjeaux Pilgrimage: The Call to be Itinerant

art by Félix Hernández, OP We told the story of the Croix du Sicaire in our first post of this Dominican Faith Series. We told it then because it’s inextricable from who Saint Dominic was and who Dominicans are today. In sum, it is this: Saint Dominic was walking the...