From top left: Dominican Sisters of Hope Patricia Magee, OP, Mary Feigen, OP Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt Mary Ann Collins, OP, Ellenrita Purcaro, OP, Dominican Sister of Hope Connie Kelly, OP, Colin Jarvis, Dominican Sisters of Hope Margaret Anderson OP, Catherine...
Dominican Sister of Hope Bette Ann Jaster, OP is an environmentalist. After co-founding Earthlinks twenty years ago, she has worked to legalize beekeeping in the Village of Ossining, advocated against fracking in Westchester County, and even created space at...
One year ago, the Dominican Sisters of Hope (in committed collaboration with four other Dominican communities, also known as OPSCC) officially committed to work on climate changeimpacts. The initiative, which took the form of a corporate stance, was as important as it...
“Before the scriptures were written, people already knew that there was something sacred about the trees, and about the weather, and about the stones,” said Sister Bette Ann Jaster, a Dominican Sister of Hope. “Nowadays, though, we have so many interruptions that it’s...