Community News

USCCA’s 35th Anniversary Conference will be a visionary gathering, featuring four keynote speakers, academic panels, fostering deep conversations, building bridges of friendship and dialogue. We hope you will join us in developing, together, a vision and path for the future 35 years. www.uscatholicchina.org/conference-29-theme

More than 60 sisters, all under the age of 50, will gather this June at Saint Xavier University for the 2024 Giving Voice National Gathering. The theme is "Being Seeds of Encounter and Communion." The long weekend includes prayer, talks, and fellowship. For more information, please see: https://giving-voice.org/national-gathering/ 

Please join us for a Jubilee Eucharistic Celebration on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at 1 pm. Our special liturgy will take place in Angelico Hall on the Dominican University campus with a reception to follow at the Sister’s Gathering Space across the street at 1520 Grand Avenue.

Read all about our Jubilarians here.

Join us in celebrating:

Sr Marion Irvine (75)
Sr Sally Brady (70)
Sr Brigid Noonan (60)
Sr Margaret Diener (50)
Sr. Darylynn Costa (40)
Sr. Abby Newton (40)

Salesians installing solar panels, providing clean water access.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 5, 2024) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in celebrating World Environment Day held annually on June 5. The day will focus on land restoration and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.”

The “Movies That Matter: Informing Your Vote” series from the Franciscan Peace Center continues in June with a virtual screening of A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.  Advance registration is required to view the film online between June 11-27.  A follow-up presentation by survivors and a viewer discussion session will be held on June 27.

Salesians in more than 130 countries work to ensure youth are safe, have basic needs met.

Programs provide care for youth and whole family.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 1, 2024) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and the international community in celebrating Global Day of Parents, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. The day, celebrated each year on June 1, honors parents throughout the world and provides an opportunity to appreciate all parents for their commitment to children.

Hill Briefing:

Human Trafficking / Forced Migration and the Legislation that Can Break the Link

The Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude - as part of their monthly Diffusions: Wisdom from the Center Zoom series "Monastic Land Stewardship: Caring for the Earth in Troubled Times" - will feature Brenna Cussen Anglada of Nuns and Nones' Land Justice Futures on Saturday, June 8, beginning at 10:00 am (Pacific Time). Brenna's topic will be: "Ecological and Racial Healing Through Religious Land Legacies."

Salesian community supports more than 100 children and more than 50 youth.

Salesian Provincial House staff members benefit from support amid economic crisis.

For every dollar donated, Salesian Missions is able to ship $14 worth of critical goods.

Salesians work with families to provide education, meet basic needs.

May 3, 2024, Adrian, Michigan – On behalf of the Adrian Dominican Congregation, the General Council signed on to an open letter from U.S. Catholics initiated by Pax Christi USA.