Sr. Margaret Mayce, OP writes: "An often forgotten component of the United Nations is the role of civil society. At its best, the UN is a place where both governments and civil society come together, in an effort to deal  with the most pressing issues of the international community. The Dominican Family is represented at the UN through two non-governmental organizations..."

Report on UN NGO 

Working for a more just World with realism, daring, and hope. We know that the commitment of the Order of Preachers to the creation of a more just world has its roots in the Scriptures and Social Doctrine of the Church and in the lives of many Dominicans – including Dominic himself.

Justice and Peace report, Sr. T. Harris, OP

Two female icons for a path to the future. The theme suggested for this Assembly leads us to take a fresh look at our Dominican religious life, to reflect on the dynamism of our commitment at the present time and to move towards a realistic future, one that is daring and filled with hope.Two evangelical icons immediately come to my mind. These are two women whose human experience continues to arouse fascination and to open future horizons. Two women like many others, but with a crushed humanity whose imploding wounded energy was transformed into an exceptional opportunity for the future and for life because it was “encountered”. I am talking about the haemorrhoidal woman and the Samaritan.

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FOLLOWING the SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the DOMINICAN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL (DSI): The Prioresses General of DSI gathered in Rome over six days, from May 14th to the 19th, to look realistically at religious life as it is today.  For the sake of their preaching mission, they dare to prepare for the future together. They hope to overcome anxiety about the decreasing number of religious women in some continents and to make room instead for the desire to cultivate community life and to give renewed meaning to religious life. As appropriately stated by Fr. Felicísimo Martinez, OP: "Some facts indicate that the level of quality of life or personal satisfaction is low in some members of religious life. I am not talking about the moral level, bad people or unfaithful people, dissolute religious… I am simply talking about the possibility that a lack of meaning may bring about the deepest crisis, the most profound origin of a sadness that is encrusted in the soul."

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