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fr. Oliver is Master of Students of the English Province, teaches dogmatic theology at Blackfriars, Oxford, and has recently been appointed Director of the Aquinas Institute.
oliver.keenan@english.op.org

Tertullian, no stranger to being victimised by his interpreters, called St Paul the “heretics’ apostle”, indicating the amenability of Paul’s writings to

Taking up the example of collaborative preaching offered by Br Joseph yesterday, for today's feast of St John of the

St Albert is said to have been one of the last people to have known everything that was known in

Today’s gospel opens with a beatitude and ends with a warning: but which one is addressed to us? Readings are located

It was God’s will that Christ should come into the world through Mary’s prayerful ‘yes’. So today it is God’s

Dominicans are useful ‘amphibians’. We seek God as contemplatives, living lives of prayer and study, but only because we have

The disciples of today’s gospel are giving good example to Dominican Student brothers! After witnessing the extraordinary moment of the Transfiguration

Readings: Isaiah 63:14-64:8, 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, Mark 13:33-37. The readings today speak of patience, of holding fast in the certain hope

Fr Cornelius Ernst’s early death in 1977, aged just fifty-three, cut short a theological career of great promise and significant

At the University of Oxford where I am presently staying, Our Lord has given [us] the promise of a great

The birth of a child has the capacity to bring out the best in humanity. On a human level, little

Readings: Acts 2:1-11. At first glance, the miracle associated with Pentecost seems quite unnecessary: the ‘devout men living in Jerusalem’ are

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