What's Perking

Sisters have been featured online and in print in the last eight weeks.
Check out the following links when time allows.


Sister Christin Tomy, OP, appeared in many recent news articles when she joined a communion procession for migrants Oct. 11 with over 1,000 others in the Chicago area. Christin is pictured in a Chicago Tribune article “Pope Leo XIV calls on Trump administration to allow detainees in Broadview to receive communion” titled  https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/pope-leo-migrants/ and in a Chicago Sun Times article titled “Religious leaders are denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility at https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/11/broadview-detention-immigration-enforcement-ice-religious-leaders-communion-fence-protests

Christin is quoted in “ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics holy communion on All Saints Day” article. “I felt a lot of grief . . . I really was just heartbroken, and I think we all were, for the way that the Body of Christ was being ripped apart.” Read more at https://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/ice-bars-chicago-bishop-from-giving-detained-catholics-holy-communion-on-all-saints/85805/2 and https://www.osvnews.com/ice-bars-chicago-bishop-from-giving-detained-catholics-holy-communion-on-all-saints/

Christin was featured in a FOX 32 Chicago news story about the procession at https://youtu.be/7--fqpn1bSc?si=hJSNxUCi2fm14EtP

Christin was featured in a Religious News Service article titled “ICE turned away the body of Christ. Catholics must keep showing up anyway.” Read more at https://religionnews.com/2025/10/15/ice-turned-away-the-body-of-christ-catholics-must-keep-showing-up-anyway/


Sister Judy Lund, OP, was featured in a recent article titled “Spreading faith and joy: Sister Judy Lund looks toward retirement after 70 years of teaching” in the Daily InterLake newspaper (Kalispell, MT). “To me, that’s the essence of life, to find joy and give joy,” she said. Read more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/spreading-faith-joy-sister-judy-130200286.html


Sister Bernadine Karge, OP, received the Dominican Mission Award from Edgewood University (EU) in September. View a 3-minute video of Sr. Bernadine created by EU at https://youtu.be/uKbn3B2jftA

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