ALUMNI &
F A C U LT Y
Most Rev. J. Augustine DiNoia, O.P. (STB
’69, STL ’71), Adjunct Secretary of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, gave the homily at Evensong on
Candlemas Eve, before the consecration
of Rev. Msgr. Steven J. Lopes as first
bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the
Chair of St. Peter.
Fr. Peter John Cameron,
O.P. (MDiv & STB ’85,
STL ’87), editor-in-chief
of Magnificat, gave the
homily at the annual Mass
of St. Thomas Aquinas at
the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception.
Brill has published a new
book by Dr. Robert J.
Matava (MA ’05), Divine
Causality and Human
Free Choice: Domingo Báñez, Physical
Premotion and the Controversy de Auxiliis
Revisited, a study of the 16th-century
Dominican/Jesuit grace controversy.
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (STL
’08, faculty), gave the St. Thomas Day
lecture at Thomas Aquinas College,
speaking on “How Does the Resurrection
of Christ Illumine Human Reason?
From Joseph Ratzinger to St. Thomas
Aquinas.”
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P. (MDiv, STB
’06), has been assigned to the École
Biblique. Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P. (STB
’09), recently participated in the École’s
meeting of the “Young Dominican
Biblical Scholars - The Bible in Jerusalem.”
Ave
Maria
Press
has
published
Remembering God’s Mercy: Redeem
the Past and Free Yourself from Painful
Memories, the latest book by Dawn Eden
(MA ’10, STB ’13, STL ’14)
Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P. (STL ’06, Vice
President and Academic Dean), was
interviewed for an article on the
Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the
Family by Edward Pentin of the National
Catholic Reporter.
Fr. Dominic Legge O.P. (MDiv ’06, STB
’07, STL ’08, faculty), spoke on “Martin
Luther King Jr. and the Question of
‘Illegal Laws’: Civil Law, Justice, and
Morality” for the University of Notre
Dame’s Constitutional Studies program.
UPCOMING EVENTS
RARE BOOKS GOLF TOURNAMENT
Mass, golf, & BBQ lunch
Tuesday, April 19, 8 AM
Reston National Golf Course | dhs.edu/golf
DOMINICAN SPRING GALA
Food, entertainment, auctions, & Compline
Saturday, April 23, 6 PM
Dominican House of Studies | dhs.edu/gala
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