A second Springfield Dominican Sister has received a ticket to attend Pope Francis’ address to Congress on Thursday next week. Sister Dorothea Sondgeroth, OP, ministers at the St. Dominic Health Services Foundation in Jackson, Miss. U.S. Representative, Gregg Harper (R-MS), called her yesterday to offer her the ticket he had planned to give to his wife, who is unable to attend. Sister Dorothea is a native of Peterstown, Ill. Last week Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) extended his invitation […]

Sister Mary Joseph Weigand, 91, a Dominican Sister of Springfield, died August 15, 2015. She was given the name Helena Marie by her parents Arthur and Clara Duncheon Weigand. Born in Beardstown, Ill., she joined the Springfield Dominicans in 1949. Sister Mary Joseph was a math educator and a pioneer teacher or principal at three Illinois schools. Her first mission was the newly established St. Bernadette Parish School in Evergreen Park. In 1958 she taught math at the […]

On August 6, 2014, the lives of Iraqi Christians and other minority groups changed forever when tens of thousands of families were forcibly removed from their homes in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq. This August 6 — quite poignantly the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima — will be observed in Dominican communities throughout the United States as a date of prayer, solidarity, and action in support of our Dominican Family in Iraq. Our congregation’s prayer […]