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A Historical Journey on the Civil Rights Trail

By Alexis Williams My husband Rickey and I recently traveled to Alabama to visit family, staying in Montgomery in the heart of civil rights history. We embarked on a journey through some poignant chapters of this era. As African Americans, we felt compelled to pay homage to the tragedies and triumphs of this time. The […]

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Feels Like Home: A Book for Every Catholic Bookshelf 

A review of Susan Flansburg’s Feels Like Home: Finding Your Way to Catholic Sisterhood   Though I’ve been quite aware of the shortage of Catholic sisters in the United States for some time, an experience last year took me by surprise. Our vocation director Sister Denise Glazik and I were at my alma mater—Eastern Illinois University—for a

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Celebrating 25 years of collaboration

Twenty-five years ago, several sisters from the Mexico-based Daughters of Mary Immaculate of Guadalupe accepted a mission to teach at Immaculate Conception School in South Chicago. Because of the cultural and language challenges the sisters would face, Springfield Dominican Sister Judine Hilbing was asked by Father Michael Enright to assume the leadership of the school

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Sister Ann Vincent Terracina cultivates Catholic Identity at St. Christina’s Parish

Chicago—What happens when a loved one moves or dies and the family discovers a cache of holy cards, a drawer-full of rosaries, or a box-load of saints’ statues? Well, if they know Sister Ann Vincent Terracina, these items go to her. Everyone who knows, knows she will put the items to good use. Sister Ann

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Healing & Reconciling: Dominican Justice Promoters Meeting 2023

By Sister Marcelline Koch, OP The North American Dominican Justice Promoters were delighted to gather June 13-16, 2023, for their first in-person meeting in three years. Casa Iskali Retreat Center in Des Plaines, Ill, provided a comfortable and welcoming space. Recognizing that we all are part of something larger than ourselves, the group heard from

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Sister Kathleen Cour, OP

Sister Kathleen’s ServicesVisitation:  4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704. Visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Dominican Father Michael DeTemple, celebrant. Wake and Mass will be livestreamed.   Livestream Links

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The Viatorians’ Testimony: Collaboration for Mission Side-by-Side for 100+ Years

These two Clerics of St. Viator—Brother Michael Gosch and Father Corey Brost—are well known to many of our sisters who’ve worked beside them throughout the years in their roles as educators, vocation ministers, and now, as advocates for the safety, dignity, and well-being of women and men legally seeking asylum in the United States. “We

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Springfield Dominican Sisters Applaud Accountability to Native Peoples

Last week a list of Native boarding schools affiliated with the Catholic Church was made public by Catholic Truth & Healing, a collaborative group of archivists, historians, concerned Catholics, and tribal members, who compiled and refined this resource to help facilitate access to information for survivors of Native boarding schools, their descendants, and Tribal Nations. 

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Fourteen Persons Make Commitment as Associates of the Springfield Dominican Sisters

Springfield, Ill. — A commitment ceremony for the 2023 Springfield Dominican Associate class was held in-person at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel on Sunday, May 7, 2023. During the homily of the Mass Father Michael DeTemple, OP, chaplain for the Dominican Sisters, thanked the associates for their commitment and reminded them to trust in Jesus no

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