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On a recent visit to St. Mary’s Academy Elementary School, New Orleans, where Sr. Therese and Liz OP teach, the students shared some of their creative prayers of gratitude and petition. Read More

Hope House in New Orleans, Louisiana is a non-profit organisation, founded to respond to the hopes and needs of its neighbours and to help create a society in which truth and justice abide. Sr. Lilianne Flavin OP who has been based in Louisiana since 1979 works in Hope House... Read More

Hope House in New Orleans, Louisiana is a non-profit organisation, founded to respond to the hopes and needs of its neighbours and to help create a society in which truth and justice abide. Sr. Lilianne Flavin OP who has been based in Louisiana since 1979 works in Hope House... Read More

Our Sisters in Louisiana send us the Prayer Sevice below for reflection on recent events. the-rise-of-relativism Read More

In a visit to St. Mary’s Dominican High School, Sr. Maeve McMahon, O.P., a Cabra Dominican Sister, educator and author of, “A Dream of Fire: A Story about Dominic Guzman,” shared with the Eighth Grade Class her inspiration for the book. In “A Dream of Fire” Sr. Maeve tells the... Read More

Hope House in New Orleans, Louisiana is a non-profit organisation, founded to respond to the hopes and needs of its neighbours and to help create a society in which truth and justice abide. Sr. Lilianne Flavin OP who has been based in Louisiana since 1979 works in Hope House... Read More

Click below to hear Sr Maeve McMahon, discusses Hurricane Katrina on the 10th anniversary of the disaster.   On RTE Radio 1 – Morning Ireland on 27 August 2015 Read More

Below see YouTube video of  Sr. Marina Jurisic, SSF in conversation with Sr. Maeve McMahon OP who reads from her book “Riding Out the Hurricane”.  In memory of the 10th anniversary of the hurricane Katrina evoking memories of the Bosnian-Yugoslav war and the flood in Bosnia and... Read More

  In her article below, Sr Lilianne Flavin OP writes about working with women in prison in Louisiana Sharing Our Common Humanity On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons for more than 30 years, I’ve been visiting women in jail. I never take these visits for granted. I’m humbled and... Read More

Almost 10 years on from Hurricane Katrina, Sr Therese Lenehan looks at religious life in Louisiana Up to August 2005 the Dominican Sisters were primarily engaged at the Parochial school of St Leo the Great and other parish ministries. However, with the onset of Hurricane Katrina,... Read More