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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

 How to make sure you’re ready to vote on November 8    We’re about eleven weeks out from the Presidential elections. Are you on top of the issues and concerns you’ll address with the pull of a lever or the punch of a stylus on November 8? If not, here are eleven ways to prepare

Mary Magdalene and the Preaching of Dominican Women Hermana Mila Diaz Solano, OP, wrote this for the Summer 2012 issue of JUST Words, the sixth year of a 10-year observance of the 800th jubilee of the Order of Preachers that ends in January 2017. 2012 was dedicated to the theme Dominican Women and Preaching. We thought

Springfield Dominican Sister M. Aniceta Skube died on July 19, 2016, at Sacred Heart Convent. She was born in Springfield in 1929 and named Catherine Lucille by her parents John and Anna Buedel Skube. She was one of twelve children. She made her profession of vows in 1951 at Sacred Heart Convent, Springfield. Sister M.

Dr. Thomas Choice, former board chair, takes the helm at Rosary August 1. Following a comprehensive study and months of deliberation by a special committee, the board of directors recommended to the member board—the leadership team of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield—the adoption of a president/principal administrative model at Rosary High School. This was unanimously

Join us in praying with and for them July 1-10. The sisters will elect a new prioress general and make important decisions about their life and ministry. Their prayer: “We search for you and long to see your face—the face of compassion and mercy.” On July 1 the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Sienna

845 Years of Loving Service by our 2016 Jubilee Class! Please join us in honoring our sisters who celebrate milestones in their journeys with God. These 16 women have dedicated a total of  845 years in service of God and God’s people. You can see their photos and leave a message for the sisters at