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January 26, 2026, Adrian, Michigan – On behalf of Adrian Dominican Sisters and Associates, the leaders of the Congregation announced their support of a statement by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), calling for an end to violence.

In the light of growing global violence and, at home, the killing in Minneapolis by ICE agents of Alex Pretti, 37, on January 24 and of Renee Good, 37, on January 7 – two citizens exercising their rights to protest government policies and actions – we stand with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in “unequivocally denounce[ing] the use of violence in any form.”

As Dominicans whose motto is veritas (truth), we also call for truth-telling by all government officials – pursuant to thorough and impartial investigations of fact, not speculation.

We join with LCWR in stating that “Our hope does not rest in force or fear, but in the transformative power of love lived boldly and together.”

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Members of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Leadership Council are: Sisters Elise D. García, OP, Prioress; Mary Margaret Albert, OP, and Margaret Coyne, OP, Chapter Prioresses; Sara Fairbanks, OP, and Durstyne Farnan, OP, Mission Prioresses; Patricia Leonard, OP, Chapter Prioress; Frances Nadolny, OP, Lorraine Réaume, OP, and Corinne Sanders, OP, General Councilors; and Mary Soher, OP, Mission Prioress.

August 26, 2025, Detroit – The Meta Peace Team, formerly the Michigan Peace Team, received the Teacher of Peace Award during a national conference of Pax Christi USA, held July 25-27, 2025, in Detroit. 

The Meta Peace Team, a long-time recipient of an Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Ministry Trust Fund grant, trains volunteers to serve as a nonviolent presence and offer peaceful resolution in situations that could involve violent conflict – both in the United States and around the world.

“Fearlessly and prophetically training and deploying unarmed civilian protection teams around the country and the world, especially in Palestine, Meta Peace Team is a shining star to Christians everywhere of what discipleship of the nonviolent Jesus looks like,” wrote Jessica Sun, leader of the Pax Christi USA Young Adult Caucus, in her nomination.

Sister Ellen Burkhardt, OP, a member of the Board of Meta Peace Team, noted the Adrian Dominican Congregation’s long-time connection, beginning with the significant role that the late Sister Mary Pat Dewey, OP, played in its founding. “Others of us have continued to be part of this mission in the intervening years,” she said.

Founded in the 1980s as Michigan Faith and Resistance, the organization was renamed the Michigan Peace Team in 1993, the year that the organization first placed an international team in Bosnia at the time of war. 

Read more about the Meta Peace Team and the Teacher of Peace Award here.