Of course, most of our alumni are Dominican Friars who are serving the Church in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia as parish priests, educators, campus ministers, and preachers. We count bishops, pastors, sisters, missionaries, and lay ecclesial ministers among our alumni.

Recent graduates include members of a variety of religious communities: the Josephites, Marians, Benedictines, Franciscans, and Marists.

 
7/16: The PFIC congratulates alumnus Fr. Jim McCormack, of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, who was just ordained to the priesthood on July 10th.  More information can be found here.
 
7/13: The PFIC congratulates 6 of its alumni who were recently ordained as priests for the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Josephites): Frs. Godwin Akpan, S.S.J., Francis D. Asomkase, S.S.J., Joseph Gbenga Benjamin, S.S.J., Stanley K. Ihuoma, S.S.J., Kenneth I. Keke, S.S.J., and Kenneth C. Ugwu, S.S.J. More information about their ordination can be found here.
 
7/13: The Arlington, VA-based Institute for the Psychological Sciences honored PFIC alumnus Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P., at its recent commencement exercises. Fr. Cessario received an honorary degree and delivered the commencement address. His address can be read here.
 
7/13: The EWTN TV show Journey Home is hosted by Marcus Grodi, a parishioner at the Dominican parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, OH.  He recently interviewed the pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas, alumnus Fr. Jordan Turano, O.P. The interview can be seen here.
 
7/7: Alumnus Rev. Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P., has an article in the August 2010 issue of The Priest magazine about William P. Young's book The Shack.  More information about the article can be found here.
 
7/1: Alumnus Fr. Paul Jerome Keller, O.P., has recently published a book entitled 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing of the Sick.  More information about the book can be found here, and it can be purchased here.
   
6/28: On Friday June 25, President Barack Obama announced the appointment of alumnus Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., as a member of the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation. More information can be found here.
 
6/25: Congratulations to alumnus Abbot Austin G. Murphy, O.S.B., who yesterday was elected the 10th Abbot of St. Procopius Abbey.  More information about Abbot Murphy can be found here.
 
6/24: Alumnus Fr. Austin G. Murphy, O.S.B., recently published a book review of Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic by Julia Konstantinovsky.  The review was published in Religious Studies Review, Volume 36, Issue 1 and can be read here (on page 83 of the pdf).
 
6/23: Congratulations to Deacon Vincent Farhat, a PFIC student and Maronite Catholic, who will be ordained a priest for the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn on June 25.
 
6/22: The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy was recently rededicated on its 50th Anniversary. The Shrine's rector, Fr. Anthony Gramlich, M.I.C., is an alumnus of the PFIC.  A write-up about the rededication can be found here.
 
6/18: Alumnus Fr. James Quigley, O.P., has published a book entitled Living Well: Meditations on the Virtues.  It can be purchased here.

 

6/12: Alumnus Fr. Bruno Shah, O.P., recently gave a talk at the Diocese of Arlington's Theology on Tap.  His talk, entitled "Finding the Right Spirituality is Easy: There's Only One" can be heard here.

   

6/11: Today, five PFIC alumni, Frs. Regis Heuschkel, O.P., Fred Hinnebusch, O.P., Alan Morris, O.P., Jimmy Murray, O.P., and Ralph Townsend, O.P., celebrated the 60th anniversary of their ordination as priests!

 

6/10: The recently published October 2009 issue of The Thomist includes two contributions from PFIC alumni.  Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. wrote an article entitled "In Defense of the Loss of Bodily Integrity as a Criterion for Death: A Response to the Radical Capacity Argument."  Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P., wrote a book review of Luis Cortest's The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and its Encounter with Modernity.