Archive for October 2020
Intersectionality
In the presentation by LFN at the 2020 Assembly (post Assembly), we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of women’s right to vote. As we shared, this really meant white women, as…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Martha Fly CoL
Editor’s Note: Our thanks to Martha Fly’s nephew, David Schoeni, for sharing this obituary with Loretto. Martha Marie Fly, age 75, died peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 30, after…
Read MoreLoretto co-member Jossy Eyre, founder of Women’s Bean Project, was a trailblazer
Editor’s Note: Jossy Eyre died on April 20, 2020. Her legacy lives on as WBP continues its work with vulnerable women. Remembrance written by Tamra Ryan, CEO, Women’s Bean Project. …
Read More¡Si, se puede! Pearl McGivney SL (Loretto President 2012-2019) left a legacy of commitment and compassion in Florida
In the early 1970s Pearl McGivney traveled to California to work withnonviolent organizer, activist and labor leader César Chávez. Pearl opened a legal aid office in Salinas. She fought for…
Read MoreCésar Chávez and Loretto: Seeing the movie
Mary Jean Friel CoL and her three grown children, Nathan, Michael and Carolyn, attended the San Diego premier of the 2014 movie “Cesar Chavez.” During the years the movie covers,…
Read More¡Si, se puede!* Standing with farmworkers
We met migrant farmworker families who lived in terrible situations, shared simple meals with them and held songfests. We learned their needs and responded; this included gathering their young children…
Read MoreLoretto rises to the challenge of distance learning
Editor’s Note: Thank you to Buffy Boesen SL and Melissa Casale for information on distance learning at Loretto Academy. Regina Drey SL wrote the St. Mary’s Academy story. Loretto Academy,…
Read MoreLoretto’s Latin America/Caribbean Committee Works for Justice, Acts for Peace
We work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us. “I Am the Way,” Loretto’s Constitutions, #36 Loretto has heard the words of Pope Francis as he…
Read MoreReflection on the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Exodus 22:20-26, Matthew 22:34-40 It is as though the reading from Exodus was written for our times. “Don’t oppress. Don’t extort. Be compassionate.” Oppression, greed and lack of consideration of…
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Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Sister Rita Maureen Hurtt SL
Rita Hurtt was the third of four children of Arthur and Gertrude Hurtt of Pagedale, on the inner ring of St. Louis suburbs where families had large yards and gardens.…
Read MoreLoretto Sister Communities: Beyond the Boundaries of Our Hearts
“Rejoicing in and strengthened by our mutual love, we go forth to meet our farther neighbors in their human needs and aspirations. We seek to reach out beyond boundaries imposed…
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