Arlington, Va., Nov 27, 2007 / 14:55 pm
A Dominican order of traditional religious sisters is thriving in Nashville, Tennessee and expanding into other cities across the nation.
The Washington Post recently highlighted the order's work on a new Catholic high school opening in Dumfries, a city in northern Virginia. The $60 million Pope John Paul the Great High School will be one of only four new Catholic secondary schools opened last year in the U.S.
The new school will require an extensive bioethics curriculum for all four years, the first Catholic high school to do so. The Dominican sisters themselves are writing the curriculum and will run the school.
At a time when many religious communities are aging due to a lack of new vocations, the Nashville Dominicans are growing.