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While serving at St. Mary’s in New Haven I’ve come upon several interesting stories. This video is an excerpt (5 min) from EWTN’s Life on the Rock in which three Yale Bulldogs speak about living their faith on campus and St. Mary’s Church.
Br. Jim McCormack, MIC (a Marian seminarian) is no stranger to the Dominicans, currently a student at the Dominican House of Studies, Br. Jim recalls his time at Yale attending Mass at St. Mary’s and his call to the priesthood.
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CATHOLICISM AT IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES SPECIAL REPORT- May 2007
Pockets of orthodoxy exist. But students and teachers face secularist intolerance and some of them succumb to it, reports Jeff Ziegler. The Dominican Friars are mentioned for their campus ministry at Dartmouth and Columbia. Yale’s Stephen Schmalhofer also speaks of the Friars at St. Mary’s…
Yale Bulldogs: David Miller, Stephen Schmalhofer and Stephen Bassermann appeared on EWTN’s Life on the Rock speaking about living their faith on campus and their experience with the Dominican Friars at St. Mary’s Parish. Also check out Stephen Schmalhofer’s blog.
To enter religious life in the early twenty-first century, one has to pass a relatively mild battery of psychological and physical exams. To enter religious life in the early fifteenth century, St. Antoninus had to memorize the Decretals of Gratian. It took him a year to do it, but a successful examination, and the mercy of his superiors, afforded him entrance into the Order.
