San José began to be built in 1532 as a Dominican convent on land donated by the explorer Juan Ponce de León, and was originally an indigenous settlement. The Spanish priest Bartolomé de Las Casas, ...

A few days after ordination, the Cardinal gave me my first priestly assignment, which was to the Archdiocese of Santiago in the Dominican Republic. I expected to be sent to Puerto Rico, which was the ...

Bishop Lewandowski speaks Spanish and Portuguese. Pope Francis appointed the Most Rev. Bruce Alan Lewandowski as Providence's next bishop, the Diocese of Providence announced Tuesday morning.

Camilo Fonseca Investigators in Spain suspect foul play in the recent death of an 80-year-old Catholic priest from Massachusetts who was vacationing in the country, according to Spanish media reports.

He was Martin de Porres (1579-1639). a mulatto barber whose father was a Spanish nobleman and whose mother was a Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a “Father of the Poor.” ...

After nearly nine years in the Dominican Republic, he was assigned to missions in Africa (2007-2018), being one of more than 40 missionary priests from his Spanish diocese.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, a founder of liberation theology, dies at 96 As a Catholic priest in Peru, he championed a new approach to theology emphasizing help for the poor and downtrodden.

Before accepting to be ordained as a Deacon, I had an apparent serious doubt about my vocation and decided to postpone my ordination to the Deaconate: I asked my confessor, a secular Spanish priest, ...

Posted: Jun 25, 2024 / 06:54 PM EDT Updated: Jun 25, 2024 / 06:55 PM EDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Diocese of Providence is set to welcome the state’s first-ever Dominican priest this weekend.

This weekend, the Diocese of Providence will ordain its first Dominican priest. It comes at a time where there is a big need for spanish-speaking priests in the community. 12 News Reporter Alex ...

St. Dominic The Order of Preachers (sometimes abbreviated as OP), aka the Dominican Order or simply the Dominicans, was founded in 1216 by a Spanish canon regular (a priest) named Dominic de Guzmán.

(ANALYSIS) The news coming from Haiti is not good. It’s not been good for years, for decades, but today it’s even worse. Gangs now control much of the country. It is essentially a failed state, with ...