“Reflections from the Pew…” Marcelline Koch OP, Kathryn Raistrick, Julie Wullner and I volunteered November 12th through 19th at the Budget and Sol Luna sites of Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas. These sites offer hospitality to people released from detention centers and assist them with the process of reuniting with their families. My thoughts […]
January 5, 2019 I have often thought that everyone dreams of coming to the United States, but over and over I hear immigrants’ stories of being torn away from what they love most—their families. Marisol, a beautiful young mother in her thirties, shared such a story with me at the Loretto Hospitality Center for Migrants […]
Dominican Family Members, Associates, and Friends, I’m pleased to inform you that a delegation of U.S. Dominicans will travel to Iraq in late September, almost a year after having had postponed their trip because of instability in Iraqi Kurdistan. The funds your congregations and provinces so generously provided a year ago will fund this trip […]
Around the United States the first weekend of July, Dominican Sisters and associates joined rallies and marches to end family separation. For photos and more information about the rallies and marches, please see below. Dominican Sisters of Adrian “Adrian Dominican Sisters added their voices to thousands of others on June 30 as they participated […]
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them….” (Mt. 19:14) The following is a statement issued by the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters in response to the practice by Immigration Officials of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border of the United States and Mexico. Adrian Dominican […]
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The following statement is from the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters in response to President Donald Trump’s decision on May 8, 2018, to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal. The Adrian Dominican Sisters decry the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal. Despite its flaws, the multilateral deal […]
Commission on Population and Development “This year the 51st Commission on Population and Development takes place from April 9th to the 13th at the United Nations Headquarters. The Commission functions as a way to advise the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on matters related to population issues and trends, integrating population and development strategies, […]
The Dominican Sisters of Peace have prepared a resource packet: Suggested Guidelines on Response to Gun Violence for any school, motherhouse or ministry who would like to participate in public prayer in solidarity with the students and staff that were killed in Parkland, FL. We have created this for our schools and other ministries and encourage anyone […]
The Dominican Sisters Conference is sharing the Public Statement of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Opposing Offshore Drilling. We hope that you can adapt and/or use it in your ministry. We are alarmed by the Trump Administration’s decision to open federal waters to new offshore oil and gas exploration in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, […]
Dominican Sisters Conference Announces Delegation to Iraq Plans for solidarity visit is contingent on outcome of Kurdish independence vote Three U.S. Dominican women planning to visit their counterparts in Iraq are awaiting word from the sisters in Iraq to determine whether the outcome of the non-binding referendum on Kurdish independence held on Monday (today, yesterday) […]
The following is a public statement by the Dominican Sisters Conference and the Dominican Justice Promoters speaking out against President Trump’s removal of protection for more than 800,000 young people through the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We, the Dominican Sisters Conference and the Dominican Justice Promoters in the U.S., […]
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