February 10-12, 2024 The Younger Sisters of Europe held their annual meeting in Madrid. They had inspiring lectures about the founding history of their congregations, the social and justice work of the Dominican Order in general, and the special position…
The DSIC Coordinating Council met in Rome, Convent of Santa Sabina from November 20 to 25.(Photo) from left to right; Sr. Pilar del Barrio, OP (Cont. Coord. for Europe), Sr. Izide Vecchi, OP (Cont. Coord. for Latin America and the…
Participating in the Assembly will be for her “a calling and a sending in these times that our Church is living”. Sister Rosmery Castañeda, a nun of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation, has been selected by Pope…
Traversing Europe’s second largest nation is not for the faint-hearted, even in peacetime. At 233,030 square miles, Ukraine — an immense country of rolling plains, grasslands and steppes — is just slightly smaller than Texas, and traveling from the country’s far west…
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Pope Francis has named Dominican Sister Helen Alford, dean of the faculty of social sciences at the Angelicum University in Rome, to be president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Vatican announced the appointment…
42 Dominican Sisters of Apostolic Life from 13 European countries gathered in Rome from February 23-26 for the YSOP23 Meeting. For more than 13 years now, the youngest Sisters of the European Congregations have been meeting annually to share life,…
By: Jarosław Krawiec OP,Kyiv, March 22, 2022 ?Dear sisters and dear brothers, Yesterday I went for a long walk through Kyiv. It’s good for my health, and my temptation to shorten the distance using a bus or a subway, which…
KRAKOW, POLAND — A month ago today, Svitlana Kruchynska stepped outside her home in Melitopol, Ukraine, to walk her two dogs early in the morning despite bracing, below-freezing temperatures. That was part of her normal morning ritual — but it…
