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Dominicans at the UN – Spring 2016 UN Newsletter
The latest newsletter from the UN shares the reflections of Dominican Sisters from DSI who participated in the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN.
UN Briefing: Our Hearts Are Strong!
“‘A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.’ I heard these words from Canadian indigenous women when I attended the 2016 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. The women spoke for women throughout the world when they declared in the next sentence: ‘Our hearts are strong!'”
Read article by Sr. Marcelline Koch, O.P.
Employment Opportunity: Program and Communications Director for Racine Dominican Eco-Justice Center
The Racine Dominican Eco-Justice Center in Racine, WI is looking for a Program and Communications Director. “The Eco-Justice Center is dedicated to environmental education and care of Earth in the context of community, contemplation, creativity, and cultivation.” Read more
Sinsinawa Mound Event to Explore Fracking
SINSINAWA, Wis.—Sinsinawa Mound is offering an evening focused on exploring the well-known and little-known complexities of hydraulic fracturing through firsthand experience, investigative journalism, storytelling and verse. Drawing from his book, “Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America,” Editor Taylor Brorby will be present to read excerpts and lead discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 10. Many of our nation’s best environmental minds are gathered together in this book and bear witness to fracking in the United States. Copies of “Fracture” are available at Sinsinawa Book and Gift Gallery and will be available for purchase at this free event.
For more information, contact Eric Anglada, coordinator, ecological programming at Sinsinawa Mound, ateric.anglada@gmail.com or 563-845-0780 or visit our website at www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the Motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque.
Fr. Paul J. Philibert, O.P. (1936-2016)
Fr. Paul J. Philibert, O.P. died April 14, 2016 at the age of 79. He was the third Prior Provincial of the Province of St. Martin de Porres (1988-1993). Funeral services are Monday, April 25, at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis, MO and Tuesday, May 3, at Dominican Friars Cemetery at Rosaryville in Ponchatoula, LA. Read more
