Home Page     Fr Thomas Crean O.P. Fr Thomas Crean OP was born in 1973, in Harpenden, England.  He studied at St. John’s College, Oxford.  He entered the Dominican Order in 1995, and was ordained priest in 2001.  He received the licence in theology from the Institut Thomas d'Aquin in Toulouse and the doctorate in theology from the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria. He has worked in parochial and hospital ministry and as a university chaplain.  He has taught at various institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom and abroad.  His books include A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins; The Mass and the Saints; Integralism: a Manual of Political Philosophy (co-written with Alan Fimister); and St Luke's Gospel: a commentary for believers.  His book Florence became a New Sion: a defence of the 'Filioque' and the Council of Florence is due to be published in Autumn 2022 by Emmaus Academic. He is currently resident at Holy Cross Priory, Leicester.  He is a Fellow of the Dialogos Institute. Academic Articles Please note that these articles are behind a pay-wall so you will have to pay to view them. Jacques Maritain's Anonymous Christianity - Crean OP - 2018 - New Blackfriars - Wiley Online Library Hilary of Poitiers on the inter-Trinitarian Relation of the Son and the Holy Spirit - Thomas Crean - Augustinianum (Philosophy Documentation Center) (pdcnet.org) A New Proposal about ‘the Fruits of the Mass’ - Crean - - New Blackfriars - Wiley Online Library Mary as a New Eve in the Thought of St Paul - Crean - - New Blackfriars - Wiley Online Library (99+) God and the origin of moral evil: a defence of Jacques Maritain | Thomas Crean - Academia.edu St. Luke's Gospel (aroucapress.com) Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy Paperback – 30 Mar. 2020 by Thomas Crean (author) & Alan Fimister (author) (Author) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Integralism-Thomas-Crean-author-Fimister/dp/3868382267 Also De Oratione (aroucapress.com) Fr Thomas has recently translated this book Links Twitter https://twitter.com/crean_fr 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 St Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on conscience, and two modern distortions What is Marriage and how is it ordered to the Holy Eucharist according to St Thomas Aquinas? CO - <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> (christianorder.com) An Integralist Reading of Apocalypse XI:1-10 | Dialogos Insititute Blog (dialogos-institute.org) https://www.kolbecenter.org/perfection-first-parents-aquinas/ 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 http://www.gilsonsociety.com/files/455-474-McCall.pdf In defense of integralism - The Spectator World A Wokeness for Rad Trads – (lawliberty.org) Version: 2nd May 2022 Home Page