Order of Preachers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 18 Jul 2019 06:34:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Order of Preachers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 History made as Asian heads Dominicans for first time https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/07/18/dominican-order-timoner/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:53:33 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=119501 An Asian has been elected as head of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) for the first time in history. Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, a Filipino, was elected Master of the Order on July 13 during the Dominicans' general chapter, which was held at a seminary some 80 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Read more

History made as Asian heads Dominicans for first time... Read more]]> An Asian has been elected as head of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) for the first time in history.

Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, a Filipino, was elected Master of the Order on July 13 during the Dominicans' general chapter, which was held at a seminary some 80 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

The Order of Preachers, which was founded by Saint Dominic in 1216, had already held a general chapter in Asia once before. That was in 1977 in the Philippine capital Manila.

However, this was the first time the Domincans have gathered for an elective chapter in a country with a non-Christian tradition, and is communist to boot. Read more

History made as Asian heads Dominicans for first time]]> 119501 Priest who was Nazi concentration camp victim is beatified https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/05/09/priest-nazi-concentration-camp-victim-beatified/ Thu, 08 May 2014 19:05:13 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=57489 A Dominican friar killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, after he was arrested for helping Jews, has been beatified. Blessed Giuseppe Girotti, OP, was beatified in Alba, Italy, the day before the canonisations of St John Paul II and St John XXIII. In 1995, Israel's Yad Vashem holocaust memorial declared him "righteous among Read more

Priest who was Nazi concentration camp victim is beatified... Read more]]> A Dominican friar killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, after he was arrested for helping Jews, has been beatified.

Blessed Giuseppe Girotti, OP, was beatified in Alba, Italy, the day before the canonisations of St John Paul II and St John XXIII.

In 1995, Israel's Yad Vashem holocaust memorial declared him "righteous among the gentiles".

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