Archive for July 2023
Loretto Magazine stories celebrate Loretto people, places, events!
The joy of writing in a magazine about people and places and stories of old is an act of love. It is creative and challenging. It is communicative of a…
Read MoreReflection on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Five hundred years before Jesus was born, Zechariah, a prophet in his time, wrote about how Jerusalem and Zion would be saved. He was living in a time when the…
Read MoreRunning in A Field of Her Own at 92 Years Old with Magdalena McCloskey
This interview originally appeared in the Vision Beyond Sight podcast on July 5, 2023. Magdalena McCloskey, long-time Loretto co-member, “educator, former nun, and player of the senior women’s softball club…
Read MoreNature Preserve Cemetery at the Loretto Motherhouse
Concerned about the environmental impact of traditional burials, Loretto set aside six acres of woods and meadow in 2018 as a natural burial site for Loretto Community members. In 2020,…
Read MoreHold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing
Long-time Loretto friend and Loretto Feminist Network member Mary Hunt published the following opinion piece in Religion Dispatches on June 208, 2023. The Southern Baptist Convention stole headlines from the…
Read MoreCatholic Worker book review of “Give Me a Living Love: The Poems of Ann Manganaro”
Thank you to the Catholic Worker and guest writer Anne Marie Kaune for this tender, insightful review of “Give Me a Living Love: The Poems of Ann Manganaro.” Kaune ends…
Read MoreReflection on the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kings 4:8-16 Romans 6:3-11 Matthew 10:37-42 Good morning. I want first to thank you all for your encouragement and prayers while…
Read MoreWhat is Emerging?
Anyone living today who is not aware of the crisis our world is in has to be existing with their head in the sand. For years now individuals who have…
Read MoreSpotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women – July 2023
Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to these wise women and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members.…
Read MoreLoretto’s Past Comes to Life with “A Sisterhood on Fire”
By Sarah Hoeynck Motherhouse in 2017, I listened to Eleanor Craig read the poem “Upon This Hill” by Cecily Jones. This powerful work and its obscure historical references inspired me…
Read MoreCongratulations Loretto’s Newest Co-Members
Welcome to our newest co-members, Theresa Miller and Pam Morgan! Theresa and Pam were accepted into co-membership on June 5, 2023. They are well known in the Community: Pam lives…
Read MoreA Pride Month proclamation in Cedar Falls, Iowa
In April 2023, the Cedar Falls (Iowa) Human Rights Commission drafted a proclamation calling for June to be declared Pride Month. The proclamation was sent to the city council for…
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