Archive for March 2022
Monday Starter: Loretto Community celebrated 30 years of environmental ministry
Published by the Global Sisters Report on March 28, 2022 As part of the United Nations’ annual two-week Commission on the Status of Women, the Loretto Community celebrated a congregational…
Read MoreLoretto Earth Network News – Earth Day 2022
Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 3/28/2022
Loretto Feminist Network: Standing Strong With Women
The Loretto Feminist Network, known as LFN for short, was established in 1982 to raise awareness of the issues facing women in the world, in the United States and in…
Read MoreCSW66 (Commission on the Status of Women) – 2022
The priority theme for the sixty-sixth Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) was “achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate…
Read MoreReflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent
In the second reading we have a strong reminder that things have changed with the coming of Jesus in human form. We are told “… the old things have passed…
Read MoreLeadership of Loretto & Five Other Women Religious Congregations Call for Preserving Peace, Democracy in Ukraine & U.S.
We, the undersigned leadership of women religious, walk in solidarity with the people of Ukraine who are suffering from the invasion by Russian forces. Vladimir Putin is attacking democracy in Ukraine with military might…
Read MoreLoretto’s Work Supporting Women & Girls: Agents of Change
These weeks of Lent are an important time to focus on God’s mercy. Strange, you may say, to begin a week of reflection thinking about God’s mercy as we focus…
Read MoreReflection on the Third Sunday of Lent
I like the Samaritan woman. And I like Jesus as she encountered him. I like Jesus’ interactions with the women of the Gospels. They reveal Jesus as very human, deeply…
Read MoreLoretto at the UN: 30 Years and Counting of Working for Justice and Peace
Loretto at the UN has been a recognized Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations for three decades, addressing issues related to nuclear disarmament, peace and security, women and girls rights,…
Read MoreReflection on the Second Sunday of Lent
Genesis 15:5-18 Philippians 3:20-4:1 Luke 9:28b-36 In these days of war and mounting danger, I find it difficult to know how to pray, for whom and…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Mary Lou Gomez-Leon CoL
Mary Lou Gomez-Leon was born May 3, 1927, to Laurencia Aizpuru and Ignacio Gomez-Leon. She was the older sister of Ignacio (Nacho) and Eddie. Mary Lou’s passions were her family, friends…
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