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To save the world we need Dominicans At thecatholicthing.org, David Warren reflects on St Dominic as a model for today’s Catholics. The saint founded his religious order just as “a new, profane intellectual order was emerging”. The Dominicans responded with “real intellectual zeal”, as well as disciplined, holy lives.
Now, as in Dominic’s time, “Faith is despised, and as the early Dominicans often were, shouted down with slogans. The Dominicans persisted. Far from retreating where they met hostility, they listened and confuted. Men can be animals, especially the young, but they may also be called to conversion, and a striking feature of the 13th century is the scale and speed of the Dominican expansion.”
