by Gabrielle Huff | May 9, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
Yesterday, all of the Dominican student brothers here at the House of Studies jammed together to watch the reveal of a new pope. We were not alone. The whole world trained its eyes on a balcony in Rome. And after some waiting—and some more waiting—there emerged Leo...
by Gabrielle Huff | May 8, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
Augustine was standing at a precipice when he heard the story of two men very much like himself. He recalls in the eighth book of his Confessions how he learned of two men foregoing promising careers in Milan in favor of the peaceful austerities of the monastery. They...
by Gabrielle Huff | May 6, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
With the papal conclave on the horizon, the issues of synodality and hierarchy have once again come to the fore, with many questioning the value and relevance of a hierarchical church. The place of synodality in the Church is an open question, but one thing is...
by Gabrielle Huff | May 3, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
I really love baseball. One time I screamed “GET OUT” so loudly in reaction to a close play on television that my housemate, who was outside of the house, heard me and thought a burglar was attacking me! The game I was watching wasn’t even a playoff game; it was a...
by Gabrielle Huff | May 1, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
From Adam working the garden to Christ doing the works of the Father, the Scriptures prominently feature the theme of work. In his second letter to the Thessalonians, Saint Paul goes so far as to say that all those who do not work should not eat (3:10). But, why? What...
