Home Page     Fr Thomas Crean O.P. Fr Thomas Crean OP was born on 21st August 1973, in Harpenden, England. He was educated at St Columbas’s College, St Albans from 1984-1991, and at St John’s College, Oxford. He received a BA Degree (First Class) in Philosophy & Theology in 1995. He was awarded the Lectorate in Sacred Theology at Blackfriars, Oxford, in 1999 and a Licence in Sacred Theology from the Institute of St Thomas Aquinas in Toulouse, 2002. He entered the Dominican Order in September 1995, being solemnly professed in September 1999. He was ordained to the priesthood in July 2001. Since completing further studies with the Dominicans in Toulouse, he has lived in Leicester, London and Cambridge and has worked in parochial ministry and as a university chaplain. He is currently based at the Priory of the Holy Cross Leicester, working as an assistant parish priest and as Catholic chaplain to the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He is also a part-time tutor for the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, His publications include A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins and The Mass and the Saints. His articles have appeared in The Mass of Ages, Living Tradition, Christian Order, Apropos, FAITH and the Catholic Herald. Preaching by Fr Thomas link Articles/Talks The Two Cities Religious Liberty Go to Joseph Review No Place for God A Meditation on Modernism A Saint in Heaven Synod of Bishops in Rome, 5-26 October 2008 Rediscovering the Word of God Of Law and Liberty Praying With Non-Catholics — Is it Possible? Thomas Merton and Liturgical Renewal: Forty Years on Ancients and Moderns on the Patience of Job The Mass as an actual sacrifice in Catholic Tradition. Reply to New Atheists Rekindling the Embers Meeting God in Friend and Stranger ~ A CRITIQUE ~ Link Christ in the Blessed Sacrament – do we reverence Him enough? Concerning Humanae Vitae The Infallible Teaching of Humanae Vitae Fatima and the Consecration of Russia Books Please note that family publications in UK has ceased trading. Please use www.amazon.co.uk A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins (U.K. title) Order from A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins (UK title) Family Publications link Extract Thomas Crean OP FAITH Magazine July-Aug 2007 Extracts on Amazon.co.uk Review by Tim Cannon of A Catholic replies to Professor Dawkins. link Review by Anne Gardiner in Christian Order Review by Dr Joseph Shaw in Catholic Family News Review by Simon Heans in the Anglican publication New Directions Review by Thomas Howard in St. Austin's Review Review in by James Kelly - The Catholic Times Review in The Sower, October 2007 This work takes the arguments in The God Delusion point by point and offers a reply. It is good to read the work side by side with that of Dawkin's. Most telling is his philosophical challenge to Dawkins. God is No Delusion (U.S.A. title) Book Information (U.S.A. title) Ignatius Press link Interview An interview with Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P., February 14, 2008 link Extracts on Amazon.com link Review by Tim Williams Review of God is no Delusion - Turris Fortis link The Mass and the Saints Book InformationThe Mass and the Saints - Ignatius Press, U.S.A. link Book InformationThe Mass and the Saints - Family Publications, U.K link Extracts on Amazon.co.uk Review by James Kelly - The Catholic Times Review by The New Liturgical Movement link Review of The Mass and the Saints link Letters to a Non-Believer Book Information Version: 5th September 2013 Home Page