Dominican Order

It just became clear to me, A, that this was what he wanted from me, and B, that finally this is what I wanted.

And so I decided to look into the Dominican order and... yeah i went and saw they have these come and see weekends so i went and i saw and

i

thought this is it um but i had to go to germany first because i had the previous fall i had received a research fellowship from the german government to spend the year in munich so wow so i went over to munich uh i was intending to work on a project on uh baptism in the letters of paul And so I did a little bit of work on that.

I did a lot of traveling and not as much research as I probably could have or should have.

But I spent the year there, got to know the Dominicans there.

I flew back from Europe.

And a couple weeks later, I was in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This isn't something that only happened on the Rebels.

Catholic publications have repeated this description for years, including an article publicized by the Dominican Order when Bartolo was canonized in October of 2025.

Father Pamontes' research doesn't establish whether Bartolo encountered anything genuinely supernatural during these ceremonies.

We still have to distinguish the experiences he reported from his later belief that demons had been involved.

She also sends him a medal of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which he began wearing and continued carrying afterward.

And given everything Bartolo has described about his supposed St. Michael's reaction to the Virgin Mary, I can understand why that medal might have meant something to him.

Pepe also wants Longo to meet a Dominican priest named Father Alberto Radente.

On May 29, 1865, Longo goes to see him.

So I've already intimated that I entered.

I was ordained only in 2016, so I entered the Dominican order in 2011.

And so anybody watching will realize from the way I look that I wasn't exactly 17 or 18 years of age when I entered.

I was a much more mature man by the time I entered.

So I think there's a diet version of this that I see in mainstream American Catholicism, even on an episode a month or two ago from the...

Dominicans at the Godsplaining video.

They started talking about psychology and therapy.

And they started, first of all, admitting that neither of them have any psychological training whatsoever, but then feel competent to make comments about psychology.

The mystic who presses the question of death past the official borders.

The Dominican friar discovering that the ground of the soul and the ground of God are indistinguishable.

The Sufi discovering an annihilation of the ego that mirrors liberation.

The Kabbalist finding in ordinary matter the light of the infinite.

It surfaces through the existing framework when the inquiry goes deep enough.

The mystic is the figure who went deep enough.

Meister Eckhart was a Dominican friar, a theologian, a preacher delivering sermons to communities of nuns in 14th century Germany in their own vernacular language rather than in the Latin of universities.

The sermons he delivered were among the most radical theological statements in the Western tradition.

The rest had been kicked out by Frederick II.

The two lonely representatives of this new movement called the Dominicans.

Oh, they were hippies.

Yeah, they were hippies.

people to read this book, The Way of Aquinas, A Travelogue for Human Beings.

Tell us now, get us into the grittiness of this book, and we'll get to have one more segment with you after we have this first couple minutes.

okay um so i mean i think when we we think about thomas we have to realize there he is a 19 year old and you know he has uh lots of expected of him and very good things really are expected of him but then he gets his eye is caught by this new order and you know we don't exactly know what it was but it was probably their preaching that's what they're known for and he ends up joining the order And as soon as they do, the Dominicans, as soon as he does, the Dominicans know they got to get him out of town because they are used to dealing with aristocratic families upset that their sons have joined this new order.

So they do that.