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Dominican Sisters Contribute Brains to Major National Alzheimer’s Study

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33 Sisters, ages 60-89, begin study this month Sponsored by Rush University Medical Center’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center Called the “Religious Order’s Study” More than 1350 sisters, brothers and priests participating nationwide since 1994 Internationally renowned neurologist David Bennett chairs the study A Rush University Medical Center researcher puts Sister Ann Clennon through her paces. Mobility […]

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“Talk about giving your life to God”—A story of friendship, service, and call

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                        Sister M. Trinita shares her friendship with Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, the two sisters whose murder in Mississippi last week has shocked the nation. Yesterday afternoon I called Sister Mary Trinita at the community health clinic she’s run for twenty

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Dominican Sisters Win Cultural Diversity Award from National Senior Care Organization

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LeadingAge Recognizes Sisters’ Anti-racism Efforts The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, have been selected to receive the 2016 Hobart Jackson Cultural Diversity Award from LeadingAge, a national association representing 6,000 nonprofit aging-services organizations throughout the United States. The award recognizes the Dominican Sisters’ “Conscious, committed effort to dismantle racism wherever it exists,” according to the

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Sister Kelly Moline, OP, Professes First Vows

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Springfield Dominicans Welcome Sister Kelly Moline During 800th Anniversary Year of the Order of Preachers Sister Kelly Moline professed her first vows during the Eucharistic liturgy today at Sacred Heart Convent during the 800th jubilee year for the Order of Preachers. Her pronunciation of vows came in response to the question asked her by Sister

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Dominican Sisters Conference decries race-based violence; calls for soul-searching engagement

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U.S. Dominican Sisters issued a statement calling for “personal and national soul-searching” as a step toward eradicating the racist systems that wound our nation. Already engaged in efforts to dismantle racism, the Springfield Dominican Sisters support the statement issued by the Dominican Sisters Conference on behalf of the 19 member-congregations of U.S. Dominicans. “We are

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Video: Springfield Dominicans Support Nuns on the Bus

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Sister Marcelline Koch, OP and Sister Simone Campbell, SSS have a Mend the Gaps Q & A session late in the evening Tuesday, July 12, 2016 on the road with between Bloomington-Normal, Ill. and Springfield, Ill. They discussed two major questions: Q: Why do Catholic Sisters care about issues like income quality, the undocumented population,

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