Fr. Basil Cole, OP, STD

Joining the Dominicans of the Western Province in 1960, Fr. Cole was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He finished his theological studies at Le Saulchoir in Etiolles, France earning the lectorate and licentiate degrees in 1968. He later received the doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the Angelicum). After teaching theology and philosophy at Pilarica College for the Notre Dame Sisters (1968-69), Fr. Cole was elected prior of St. Dominic’s in San Francisco, where he also served as parish priest, a member of the provincial council and lecturer at various institutions (1970-1975). Elected prior of Daniel Murphy High School community in Los Angeles he became a member of the Western Dominican preaching band and preached throughout the American West. Fr. Cole was an invited professor at the Angelicum from 1985-97, and has taught moral, spiritual and dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies since 1998 in Washington DC. He was also prior of St. Gertrude’s Priory in Cincinnati from 2010-2013 and then returned to the Dominican House of Studies to continue his teaching ministry as well as giving retreats and parish missions.

Fr. Cole has authored: Music and Morals, Alba House, Staten Island, New York, 1993; co-authored with Paul Connor, O.P.; Christian Totality: Theology of Consecrated Life, published by St. Paul’s editions in Bombay, India 1990, revised in 1997 Alba House, Staten Island, New York and also published in French, Polish and Hungarian. He has written for The Priest, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Faith and Reason, Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Angelicum and Nova et Vetera. He has also been a longtime collaborator for Germain Grisez’s four volume series of moral theology, The Way of the Lord Jesus.