Dominican priest and theologian Timothy Radcliffe OP has urged the Church to develop new ministries, particularly for women, as a key focus for the upcoming Synod on Synodality. Lay people and “women in particular must be given a more active role in the life of the church” Radcliffe said in an interview with Ordo Praedicatorum. Read more
Those who set the Church’s moral behaviours have only ever had partial control over them – and chocolate perhaps helps explain why. Chocolate’s acceptance in the Catholic diet was clearly less the result of what theologians or canon lawyers did or said than of the decisions of ordinary clergy and laity who drank it regardless, Read more
Queenstown’s only Dominican sister is leaving, 133 years after members of the religious order first arrived in the town. Sr Mary Anna Beard, OP, leaves for new pastures on Saturday, reported the Otago Daily Times. “There is a sadness in our presence not being here, but the people will carry this charism on,” Sr Mary Read more
Specialists have reconstructed the face of Peruvian St Martin de Porres, who was known as the “saint of the broom”. The reconstruction by a team of specialists used research based on the saint’s skull. The result was unveiled on November 3 in Lima, Peru. The reconstruction revealed that the Dominican brother would have had trouble Read more
Pope Francis has named a former head of the Dominicans, Fr Timothy Radcliffe, to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Master of the Dominicans between 1992 and 2001, Fr Radcliffe will serve as a consultor on the pontifical council. The council is the Vatican body devoted to social justice and human rights. Fr Radcliffe Read more