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November 18, 2025, Adrian, Michigan – On behalf of Adrian Dominican Sisters and Associates, the General Council issued the following statement in support of the recent pastoral message by the U.S. Catholic Bishops.
At their Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a “Special Pastoral Message” addressing their concerns about the “vilification of immigrants.” This “marked the first time in 12 years the USCCB invoked this particularly urgent way of speaking as a body of bishops,” their public affairs office noted.
As women of faith, we have been deeply concerned about the frightening and unlawful treatment of our neighbors – children, women, and men made in the image of God – through our government’s indiscriminate deportation of immigrants and arrest and detention of people of color, including citizens. We are grateful for this pastoral call of our U.S. bishops, and stand with them as they state:
· We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement.
· We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants.
· We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care.
· We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status.
· We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools.
· We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones. …
· We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.
We agree with our bishops that “Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together.” We join them in urging “all people of good will to continue and expand” efforts undertaken by many Catholics “to accompany and assist immigrants.” We are grateful to the many priests who are using their pulpits to share stories of terrible abuses taking place in their parish neighborhoods and to exhort parishioners to take action in support of their immigrant neighbors.
We invite members of the public to join us for a presentation on What’s Happening with Immigration at our Motherhouse campus on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Weber Retreat and Conference Center, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan. It will be given by Sister Attracta Kelly, OP, JD, immigration attorney and founder of the Adrian Dominican Office of Immigration Assistance. The event is open to the public, free of charge, and available by livestream at adriandominicans.org/Live-Stream.
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Members of the Adrian Dominican Sisters General Council are Sisters Elise D. García, OP, Prioress; Frances Nadolny, OP, General Councilor; Lorraine Réaume, OP, Vicaress and General Councilor; and Corinne Sanders, OP, General Councilor
I also stand with your announcement and position with the USCCB to work for Immigrants Justice and Human rights.I intend to tune in online Dec. 10th. Thank you for all your efforts.
I am in complete agreement with the concerns expressed by our Bishops. I was a Lutheran pastor in Miami, Florida during the time when Fidel Castro sent a bunch of Cubans to South East Florida. The politicians said the same horrible things about the Cubans that they are saying about illegals today. Every Cuban immigrant heard the lies, exaggerations, and fabrications. And many of them lived in fear of being sent back to Cuba. One such man was my friend Cuban Playwright Ferman Borges. He knew that anyone returned to Cuba would be killed..Because of the stress he began having panic attacks and then died of cardiac
Thanks for words that are considered, actionable and in line with the teachings of Christ. Silence in the face of injustice and cruelty is complicit, and too many institutions have been bullied into complicity.
Thank you, Sisters! Proud to carry on your legacy.
Will this presentation be available later in some media format for those who cannot attend in person or the live stream? Thank you for supporting the dignity of all our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Yes, the presentation will be recorded and will be available for viewing on our public video library.
Thank you, Adrian Dominicans, for another principled statement and for making your important upcoming presentation by Sister Attracta Kelly available both in person and online for all to attend.