Academics Dominican House of Studies

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• Law that ended single-family zoning is struck down for five Southern California cities
• Alumni Spotlight: Supportive Faculty, Study Abroad Lead Alumna to Job in Spain
• Explore (Faith) Student Life
• Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?
• Contributions to the Library
• Opinion: No matter the weather, climate change means it’s always ‘fire season’
• Access Policies

Over a five-day period in June, locations in seven U.S. states, including California, surpassed all-time maximum temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Aggressive and impactful reporting on climate change, the environment, health and science. Dominican University of California is an accredited independent institution located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more about our rankings, our multiple College of Distinction recognitions, and our national award for institutional transformation. For many years, the Master’s degree has been granted in partnership with the Saint John of Damascus School of Theology of the University of Balamand in Lebanon, and has been internationally accredited by the Commission for Higher Learning of the Republic of Lebanon.

Law that ended single-family zoning is struck down for five Southern California cities

Investing in future leaders of the Dominican Order starts with an investment in their studies and formation. The Dominican House of Studies became a member of the Washington Theological Consortium in 1967, and its students and faculty have been actively involved in this ecumenical work since the Consortium’s inception. Presently operating under the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Veritatis Gaudium (2018), the House of Studies is authorized to grant the degrees Bachelor of Sacred Theology (S.T.B.), Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), and Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.). The Dominican House of Studies traces its mission to the preaching charism and Catholic intellectual heritage bequeathed to the Order of Preachers by its founder, St. Dominic de Guzmán. It underscores the importance of seeking Christ for personal enlightenment and as a mission to bring truth and clarity to others.

Alumni Spotlight: Supportive Faculty, Study Abroad Lead Alumna to Job in Spain

Entrance to the PFIC is through the double glass doors which face Michigan Avenue. The Dominican Theological Library is continually expanding its collection to provide its Dominican residents and the students of the PFIC with the wide variety of resources necessary for their research. The Dominican Theological Library houses an extensive collection of theological and philosophical works. Shaped by its Dominican identity, the collection is especially strong in the scholastic tradition, particularly in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and his commentators. The Library possesses nearly all of Aquinas’ published works, including the critical editions distributed by the Leonine Commission.

Explore (Faith) Student Life

Catholic theology in the Thomistic tradition for Dominican students and all who are interested in serving the Church, evangelizing the world, and growing in virtue, wisdom, and holiness. All our collections, services, and facilities are meant to foster serious and recollected study in the service of the Gospel. We gratefully accept donations to the library to help with its maintenance and growth. For a comprehensive account of PFIC policies, programs, and courses in one place, please consult the below PDF. For all their leadership instability, one common refrain echoed almost daily by congressional Republicans is that we have a crime crisis in America and Democrats (and the president) are to blame.

Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?

Following the model of St. Dominic as a consoler of the sick and those in distress, Dominicans strive to care especially for those in the community who are suffering in any way—physically, psychologically, spiritually. We extend this same solicitude to the poor and distressed to whom we minister in our apostolates. In the first decades of the Order’s life, St. Dominic sent friars to establish houses of study at the universities of Paris and Bologna where they could receive the strong doctrinal training necessary to support their preaching activity. These friars attracted many university professors and students to the Order, among them the brilliant young Thomas Aquinas (who entered the Order in 1244). Aquinas’s achievement crystallized the intellectual thrust of the Dominican apostolate from that time onward.

Contributions to the Library

Reaction to two brutal assaults in Venice demonstrates how emotion and politics twist the truth in crime discussion. The study did not look specifically at how the heat dome, which extended into Northern California, affected the state’s fire season. That summer, the 963,000-acre Dixie fire, which started July 13, became the first to burn from one side of the Sierra Nevada to the other, followed in short order by the 221,000-acre Caldor fire. Farther south, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, on June 29 experienced Canada’s hottest recorded temperature, 119 degrees, and was largely destroyed by a wildfire the next day.

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First Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage draws thousands to national shrine.

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The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) was first established in the United States by Edward Fenwick in the early 19th century. The first Dominican institution in the United States was the Province of Saint Joseph, which was established in 1805.[1] Additionally, there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns. Access to these materials are by appointment only; please contact [email protected] for information. There’s much more waiting in this short video to spur devotion in the curious minds of young Catholics, including Fr. They also give a look at the library where seminarians study, as well as a peek at the extensive archives of the Dominican House of Studies. Teller explains that entering the priesthood does not mean that one must abandon their other interests.

Opinion: No matter the weather, climate change means it’s always ‘fire season’

We preach by our lives and example, and when opportunity arises, with our voices as well. Dominican Lay men and women pursue study, particularly in theology, Scripture, and catechesis in order to preach well when called upon to do so. These figures do not distinguish between students who fail to complete their program for academic reasons, or for personal reasons, or because he or she has been reassigned by his or her religious superiors.

In service to the evangelizing mission of the Dominican Order, the primary purpose of the Dominican House of Studies is to provide a Catholic theological education that prepares students for the ordained ministry in the Province of St. Joseph. Recognizing the wide appeal of a theological education in the Dominican tradition, the Dominican House of Studies accepts all interested and qualified students without regard to race, gender, religion, or ethnic background. The Dominican House of Studies is committed to imparting to all of its students a capacity for serious scholarship and a basic competence in philosophy and theology through the study of St. Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with the best of contemporary thought. For ministry preparation it offers a comprehensive program of studies integrated with spiritual and pastoral components in order to form students imbued with a desire for holiness, capable of effective preaching, and competent pastoral ministry. To prepare preachers, Dominic established houses near the leading universities of his time in which students of the Order could follow a prescribed course of study in preparation for their pastoral work.

As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across the continent, with the most land burned in Canada and California. Dominican is just 12 miles north of San Francisco — easily accessible by car, bus, ferry or bicycle. To be an English teaching assistant in the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program (NALCAP) at a private school in Manacor on the island of Mallorca, Aisleen Renteria ’21 relied on the...

The proposal would defund the Community Oriented Policing Services program, or COPS. It has provided more than $20 billion to more than 13,000 different police departments nationwide, resulting in the addition of more than 160,000 officers focused on the kind of accountable, proactive law enforcement that’s called community policing. It’s important to untangle climate change’s influence on extreme weather events like the heat dome, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, Diffenbaugh said. A lot of infrastructure and risk management systems are built around assumptions about how these events will play out, so if that changes, those systems become stressed, he said.

Although there was no single event as extreme as 2021’s heat dome, some regions of Canada saw many more heat events than on average, he said. Studies that attempt to quantify the role of climate change in individual events can also help calculate the health costs and financial toll of planetary heating from carbon emissions, which have been cited by a growing number of lawsuits seeking damages. The findings add to the understanding of how climate change can affect extreme weather events — and the potential role these events can play in fire activity. The study adds to a body of literature documenting how the fingerprints of climate change can be detected in events such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires.

Periodically the library creates a new mini exhibition showcasing various books centered around a specific theme. The exhibit can be found in the display cases on the main floor, to the right of the recent periodicals. The Dominican Theological Library (DTL) began as the faculty library of the Dominican House of Studies at Somerset, Ohio, in 1834. Enrolled students can find a list of required and recommended books for courses by logging in to Populi and navigating to the info tab for a particular course.

The Antiochian House of Studies (AHOS) brings the Ethos of the historical “School of Antioch,” of the Roum Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East to North America. Antioch has a missionary heritage with rich ethnic and linguistic diversity to all. AHOS provides a distinctly Antiochian Orthodox Christian education for clergy, laity, and others by establishing an opportunity to experience the Orthodox way of life. The House of Studies creates curriculum that provides for the teaching of Orthodox worship, doctrine, action, and relationship for its participants through rigorous academic studies and spiritual direction. This is accomplished through a curriculum that can be lived through residential and hybrid learning opportunities in an atmosphere of intimate home environment from which our name “House” comes. We are committed to being faithful to our Apostolic Tradition, preserved and expressed in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.