The Dominican Cluster is a collaborative venture of seven congregations of Dominican Sisters in the United States who are exploring the possibilities of reconfiguring for the sake of Dominican life and mission.

The Cluster arose from conversations at a Dominican Alliance meeting in 2000, and has taken shape since that time. A coordinating committee (CCC) comprised of congregational members and leadership was formed to facilitate exploration of possibilities and to ultimately arrive at a recommendation for reconfiguration, based on member input from throughout the process. This task was completed in June 2006, and the Leadership Teams of the Cluster congregations soon after accepted the CCC's recommendation that the option for reconfiguration that congregations consider be a Canonical Union. From that period through the spring of 2007, the seven congregations engaged in personal and communal discernment regarding the option, culminating in the Chapters held with each congregation.

With these congregational Chapters, the seven-cycle discernment process was completed. Each congregation voted at their separate Chapters in March and April 2007 in favor of petitioning the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Socities of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL) for permission to form a new congregation. Materials for the petition were assembled and sent, and currently the congregations await a decision.

A Transition Team has been appointed by the Leadership Teams of all the Cluster congregations to manage the process at this point in time. Members of the Transition Team are Bernie Baltrinic (Akron), Suzanne Bauer (New Orleans Eucharistic Missionaries), Anne Kilbride (Columbus), Therese Leckert (New Orleans St. Mary), Gene Poore (Oxford), Barbara Rapp (Kentucky), and Rene Weeks (Great Bend).