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SINSINAWA, Wis.— Author, priest, and social psychologist Diarmuid O’Murchu of Dublin, Ireland, will give a retreat and talk at Sinsinawa Mound in June. He is known throughout the world for his work with those on the margins, his writings, and his retreats on adult faith development. O’Murchu is a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order.
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“The Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt congratulate Sr. Thobile Gumede who was awarded the MA in Counseling Psychology by Felician University at their Commencement Exercises on May 14th. Several of our sisters were present at the ceremony and at the Baccalaureate Mass on May 13th.”
For 26 years Siena House in the Bronx, New York, has been serving the needs of homeless, single mothers and children. Sr. Mary Doris, O.P., a Blauvelt Dominican, is Director of Siena House—a shelter for women who are pregnant or have a child under the age of three. Sr. Mary and several other Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt founded the shelter in 1990. Siena House is sponsored by the Tolentine Zeiser Community Life Center.
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Dominican Institute for the Arts recently invited its membership and anyone connected to the Dominican Family to submit work on the Issues of Justice and Peace we committed to as part of the Dominican Sisters Conference.
On our website you will find works from Dominican Young Adults, Dominican Volunteers, Associates, our Sisters, and membership. Some works have statements of purpose seen with a scroll over. There are works on poverty, racism, water and climate issues, oil, migration, health, trafficking and more.
We invite you to go to our website and see the works of poetry, art, photography that were submitted. More works can be found in our gallery from our membership. A link is on our home page www.diartsop.org. We hope you will come and see.
South Texas Gentle Men of Steel – Los Padres, a feature documentary, won the 2016 Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival. The film was selected from among hundreds of entries from over 30 countries around the world as the competition’s very best.
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