Providence College Theology Department

04/25/2026

04/03/2026

Former instructor in PC's Theology Department and now Rector of the Angelicum in Rome, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., met with Pope Leo in a private audience this week—and gave him a full set of recordings of "The Hillbillly Thomists," a bluegrass musical group of Dominican friars. https://angelicum.it/rector-of-the-angelicum-received-in-private-audience-by-pope-leo-xiv/

04/03/2026

03/23/2026

02/22/2026

"Gloria Purvis, a special adviser for integral human development and dignity at Providence College in Rhode Island and a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Initiative for Catholic Social Thought in Public Life in Washington, told OSV News that Rev. Jackson met with St. John Paul II multiple times, notably to advocate for Haitian refugees.
“The preferential option for the poor, solidarity with the oppressed, the dignity of the human person, all of those things, I think, are the positive parts of his legacy that should be remembered and even though he was Baptist, he recognized the moral authority of the Holy Father,” Purvis said."

Catholic leaders were among those who praised the legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and prominent civil rights leader, who died Feb. 17. He was 84.

02/12/2026

02/02/2026

"There are many spots on campus that I love. But none holds greater significance for me than the spot in front of the altar at St. Dom’s."