Public Statements

“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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., […]

The following is a public statement by the Dominican Sisters Conference speaking out against the supremacist terrorism in Charlottesville and below there are links to additional public statements. We, the Dominican Sisters Conference, representing approximately 6,000 Catholic Sisters and their associates across the United States, join our voice with the many across the United States who […]

In March of 2017 the Dominican Sisters Conference published a Public Statement on the Executive Order Rolling Back the Clean Power Plan. Today we are appalled by President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. This is politically, economically, and morally indefensible. Moreover, this diminishes our standing as a world […]

The following is an official statement by the Dominican Sisters Conference on the executive order that “rolls back the Clean Power Plan and encourages increased coal production.” Dominican Sisters in the U.S.A. have been actively addressing climate change since the late 1980s. In 2015, we commissioned four Dominican Sisters to represent us at the Paris […]

Below please find a Joint Public Statement issued by the Dominican Sisters Conference and the North American Promoters of Justice, and links to additional public statements, Denouncing President Donald Trump’s Ban of Immigrants. We, the Dominican Sisters Conference and the Dominican Justice Promoters in the U.S., are appalled by President Trump’s recent executive order. This nation has […]

The Dominican Sisters Conference is sharing the statement of the Adrian Dominican Sisters on an executive order to advance construction of oil pipelines. In response to executive actions signed by President Donald Trump to advance the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters has […]

On September 20, the Dominican Sisters Conference issued a public statement on opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, calling into question “the assertion that fracking is a safe means of extracting and transporting fossil fuelsracist systems that wound our nation.” Here is the text. Also, below there is a prayer for Standing Rock and reflections by the […]

On July 26, the Dominican Sisters Conference issued a public statement on eradicacting race-based violence, calling for “personal and national soul-searching” as a step toward eradicating the racist systems that wound our nation. Here is the text: We are deeply pained and outraged at the increase in the number of police killings of innocent African […]