by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 24, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
2025 Summer Listening Recommendations: Rituals by Watchhouse What’s the reason for our rituals—those habits that give us meaning and structure? What do they reveal about our need for belonging? In their newest album, Rituals, Watchhouse explores the tension between...
by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 19, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
Saint Paul, the paradigmatic preacher, had no illusions about where the success of his missions came from. Because his conversion was so sudden, Paul saw clearly the divine source of his faith. He then inferred a universal truth from his particular case: God’s agency...
by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 17, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
2025 Summer Reading RecommendationsDemons: A Novel in Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky When a culture is sick, how can it be cured? If an entire people is possessed, how can they be freed? Is such a thing even possible at all? Dostoevsky’s classic work Demons...
by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 14, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
Summer Schedule Announcement Dear Friends, As the days stretch to their longest and the temperature rises, we student brothers have had much to celebrate. We recently welcomed the Master of the Order, Father Gerard Francisco Timoner (the 87th successor of Saint...
by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 12, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs man’s torment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Both intuition and common wisdom—for we are frequently told to never give up hope—tell us that this statement from Nietzsche is simply wrong. Of course, what Nietzsche...
by Gabrielle Huff | Jun 10, 2025 | Dominicana Journal
In February 2025, scientists released a digital reconstruction of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s face based on his relics. Dominican friars shared what it meant to them to glimpse their beloved brother, but they are not the first to be moved by his impressive appearance. In...
