Today, as various coalitions and organizations gather to participate in the Catholic Day of Action in Washington, D.C., sisters and staff gathered to pray in solidarity. Together, the group challenged the current administration’s abuse of immigrant children and...
On the eve of Friday, July 12th, we Dominican Sisters of Hope, along with associates and co-creators, participated in Lights for Liberty, a vigil to end the detention camps at the U.S. border. The issue of immigration is not new to us. Throughout years in ministry, we...
We Dominican Sisters support No More Deaths, particularly in their mission to provide humanitarian aid to migrants in the southwest borderlands. Four of their volunteers were recently convicted on what amount to federal “littering” charges and even more...
This is a moral moment in the United States. The government has been partially shutdown for more than twenty days now. People are not receiving paychecks and essential services. A government shutdown is not the way to solve a political disagreement. As more people are...
When Dominican Sister of Hope Lucy Povilonis, O.P. thinks of refugee camps, she thinks of crowded conditions, pockets of people speaking the same dialect, and a unanimous longing for a better life. Unlike many of us who are glued to the news of the crisis at the...
