January 23, 2017

Faith and Film: Jackie

Movie Review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.

Jackie is an intense portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the week after the assassination of her husband, John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. Directed by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, it features an excellent performance by Natalie Portman as the grief-stricken First Lady. Larraín uses extreme close-ups of Portman and other actors playing Bobby Kennedy and other members of the Kennedy and Johnson families. It’s an unsettling, yet hypnotic, look at the grief that this very public figure endured.
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January 23, 2017

Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose: Dominican Women and Men Gather for the Closing Celebration of 800th Anniversary of the Order

(3)MSJ_800th Over two hundred Dominican women and men, gathered on January 14, 2017 to celebrate the closing of the 800^th Anniversary of the Order. Sponsored by the OP West leadership and hosted at the motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, California, this powerful experience of gratitude and the best of what it is to be family began with a festive lunch followed by panel presentation and conversation and concluding with Evening Prayer.
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January 11, 2017

Photo of the Week: Dominican Sisters of Adrian Welcome New Associates

Carmen McCrink and Michael Provitera, new Adrian Dominican Associates from Barry University, listen as Mary Lach, Director of Associate Life, leads the November 14 Rite of Acceptance. (Photo by Thierry Lach)

In November 2016, during two separate Rites of Acceptance at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, the Dominican Sisters of Adrian accepted four new associates into Associate Life. Read more

January 11, 2017

“100 Days of Prayer”

If you would like to join others of all faith in “100 Days of Prayer” as our new president will begin his administration, brought to you by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, please go here: http://dominicansistersconference.org/100-days-of-prayer/.

January 10, 2017

UN Update: ‘United States Mission to the United Nations Annual Trafficking in Persons Report’

“Each year the United States Mission to the United Nations releases a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to re-assess and evaluate the status of human trafficking (both sex trafficking and labor trafficking) worldwide. At this point in time, human trafficking is not only an issue discussed with regularity at the UN, but it is also an issue central to the advocacy of the Catholic Church. For the first time in 70 years, the United States brought the issue of human trafficking into discussions in the United Nations Security Council . . .” Read article by Dominican Volunteer Katherine Maloney