Book Signing at the 2025 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage
Dominican Friars
At this year’s Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage on Saturday, September 27, 2025, four Dominican friars will be signing their latest works—and you’re invited to meet them! The event takes place from 12:00–1:00 p.m. in front of the bookstore at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Books will be available for purchase on-site.
Meet the Authors
Fr. James Brent, O.P.
The Father’s House: Discovering Our Home in the Trinity
Father James Dominic Brent, O.P., is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. Born and raised in Michigan, he completed his doctorate in Philosophy from St. Louis University and licentiate in Theology from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC where he now teaches. He frequently lectures for the Thomistic Institute and Aquinas 101. Fr. Brent’s new podcast Contemplata is born from years of traveling the world lecturing, preaching retreats, and meeting increasingly more people who hunger to know God more deeply in contemplative prayer. He is the author of The Father’s House: Discovering Our Home in the Trinity (Pauline Books, 2023). Fr. Brent was the homilist at last year’s Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage.
Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope
The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh
Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Ordinary Professor and Editor-in-Chief of The Thomist at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies and Master of Students for the deacons of the Province of St. Joseph at St. Dominic Priory in Washington, DC. Previously he served as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Nairobi, Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, and formator at the Dominican House of Studies. He is an author of many publications including The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh, Magnificat’s Way of the Cross and Rosary for a Eucharistic Revival, and he co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life and Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope. He enjoys preaching on the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Fr. Philip Nolan, O.P.
Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope
Fr. Philip Nolan, O.P. is a Dominican of the Province of Saint Joseph. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2022 and serves at Holy Innocents Parish in Pleasantville, New York. He is a frequent contributor to Magnificat and co-author of Our Father: Our Prayer of Hope (Magnificat, 2025).
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Your Eucharistic Identity: A Sacramental Guide to the Fullness of Life
Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
From Pennsylvania, Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. He previously served as the Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC, and associate pastor of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught at Bellarmine University. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is a contributor on the Pints with Aquinas show, a co-host of Godsplaining and the Catholic Classics podcast. Fr. Gregory is the author of Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly (Our Sunday Visitor, 2022) and co-author with Matt Fradd of Marian Consecration With Aquinas: A Nine Day Path for Growing Closer to the Mother of God (TAN Books, 2020). Fr. Gregory was the principal preacher at last year’s Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage.
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Contemplation and the Cross: A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life
The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2011), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press, 2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press, 2022). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera, a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Don’t miss this opportunity! Whether you’ve been shaped by their writings or are just discovering them, the book signing is a chance to meet the friars, share a moment, and bring home a signed copy of their newest work. Join us 12:00–1:00 p.m. in front of the bookstore.
