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.
Review No Place for God Synod of Bishops in Rome, 5-26 October 2008 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. Meeting
God in Friend and Stranger Christ in the Blessed Sacrament – do we reverence Him enough? The Infallible Teaching of Humanae Vitae Fatima and the Consecration of Russia St Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on conscience, and two modern distortions
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 Anne Gardiner in Christian Order Review by Dr Joseph Shaw in Catholic Family News
Review by Thomas Howard in St. Austin's Review Review in by James Kelly - The Catholic Times Review in The Sower, October 2007
Book Information (U.S.A. title) Ignatius Press
Review by Tim Williams
Book InformationThe Mass and the Saints - Ignatius Press, U.S.A.
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