Grand Rapids

  • Sister Angie Gonzales Leaves Santa Cruz, New Mexico for Michigan

    Sister Angie Gonzales Leaves Santa Cruz, New Mexico for Michigan

    June 17, 2017

    Angelina Gonzales, better known as Sister Angie, is no stranger to hard work and service. She didn’t mind it when she was 10 years old and making adobe blocks in the hot sun of Glorieta, N.M., with her brothers, and she hasn’t minded it during her last 40 years of service at Holy Cross Catholic […]

  • God’s Tools

    God’s Tools

    September 9, 2015

    This Dominican sculptor carves faith stories out of stone and clay. “The 30 years since entering Aquinas College’s art program have included countless pieces. She’s participated in ArtPrize three times and also created the life-size bronze sculpture of St. Dominic on the Marywood Campus. Her pieces are a unique form of her preaching,” she says. […]

  • Sr. Robert Ann Retired from Catholic Central Fall 2014

    Sr. Robert Ann Retired from Catholic Central Fall 2014

    October 21, 2014

    The Dominican Influence — Honoring the Legacy: Sister Robert Ann Erno Since 1906, the Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters have helped form the lives and instill Catholic character and values in tens of thousands of Catholic Central students. Everybody whose lives have been touched by the Sisters’ 100+ year history of reaching here understand how they […]

  • Sister Megan McElroy and the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate

    Sister Megan McElroy and the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate

    April 17, 2014

    The Collaborative Dominican Novitiate (CDN) was established in 1988 by 15 Dominican Congregations; 22 Congregations now participate in the joint effort by the women in the Dominican Order in the USA. Grand Rapids Dominican Sister Megan McElroy, OP has served as co-director of the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate since 2012, ministering to provide initial formation for […]

  • Phyllis Mrozinski OP Exhibits at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids

    Phyllis Mrozinski OP Exhibits at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids

    September 9, 2013

    Sister Phyllis Mrozinski entered sculptures in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Her works included: A STONE NOT THROWN was created through the reading of scripture. In biblical times the act of stoning in public was accepted as capital punishment. I was moved by the biblical passage of the adulterous woman in John’s Gospel and by the […]

  • Her High Expectations: Principal at St. Andrews Elementary School

    Her High Expectations: Principal at St. Andrews Elementary School

    April 29, 1985

    Sister Marie Michael Jacobs runs a tight ship at St Andrew’s Elementary School. For nearly two decades, this persistent, aggressive and warm-harted nun has headed a “inner city” grade school in the shadow of downtown. From the very start, she has kept the doors open to people of all backgrounds. Sister Marie Michael is a […]