St Dominic Part II

It might seem that I began these brief autobiographical essays the wrong way round, beginning with how Dominic was remembered, rather than what he did. However, the man’s character is crucial to understanding his mission, which, to our eyes, and in our multi-cultural setting, can seem dogmatic, exclusionary, and intolerant. Dominic’s life work was the conversion of the Cathars of southern France; a semi-Christian sect who combined Christian ideas with forms of neo-platonic Gnosticism.

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Our thanks to Br Samuel Eccleston for this reflection