Archive for March 2017
Tobin House: Keeping an Open Door
By Claudia Calzetta Everything happened so fast at the annual mid-year retreat for the St. Louis Volunteers. We were enjoying a beautiful sunny day at Rockhaven retreat center. It was…
Read MoreFine Art Shows Feature Talent of Jeanne Dueber
By Mary Swain Jeanne Dueber won the Second Place Merit Award Feb. 25 in the Owensboro, Ky., Art Guild’s 55th Juried Exhibition. Forty-nine artists, each with one or two pieces,…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Jane Willett Harris CoL (formerly Sister Jane Therese Willett SL)
Mary Theresa Willett Harris was born and raised in Howardstown, Ky., by Catholic parents, Lawrence Edward Willett and Genevieve (Jennie) Boone Willett. Baptized on the same day as her birth,…
Read MoreLoretto Earth Network News – Spring 2017
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Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Sister Barbara Anderson SL
Barbara Anderson was born in Springfield, Mass., the only daughter of Karl Eric Walter Anderson and Edna Victoria Clow Anderson. Her only brother, Carl, was six years older than she.…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Sister Patricia Anne (formerly Sister Mary Richelle) Cullen
Sister Pat Cullen left us several autobiographical sketches, which provide the substance of this remembrance. Pat begins her life story thus: “When the spring cleaning of Heaven took place one…
Read MoreMaureen McCormack Offers Her Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue
As I think about the topic of interfaith dialogue, I realize that most of us grew up in one faith or no faith tradition. Some were part of an interfaith…
Read MoreUpdate on Gay Lenox
Gaetana (Gay) Lenox had a recent change in life. In 2013 she had a stroke that paralyzed her, leaving her without speech. It did not daunt her spirit, and her…
Read MoreGetting to Know You: Conversations About Loretto Work After Vatican II
By Mary Kay Brannan and Therese Stawowy Does your “bucket list” include reconnecting to Loretto? Would you like to share with new Loretto folks what you were doing after Vatican…
Read MoreLoretto in Motion: Who We Are and What We Have Done
From the Outreach and Co-membership Teams The Outreach and Co-membership Teams have just completed a compiling a study guide which combines readings from Naming Our Truth and A Century of…
Read MoreLoretto Supports National Farm Workers Ministry
By Roxanne Monterastelli Carolyn Jarmillo and Rox Monterastelli represented the Latin America Caribbean Committee at the National Farm Workers Ministry winter board meeting in January at FIRM, Fresno (Calif.) Interdenominational…
Read MoreA Film Review: Kullaka
“During the 1970s, Bolivia went through many social and political conflicts. At that time several groups, religious and laypeople, went to volunteer in the rural area near La Paz. “They…
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