Maryam: A Self-Portrait
By Theresa Kubasak Maryam is a talented young woman from Syria who was very active at the Ad Dar Center where I volunteered in Istanbul. Maryam made this self- portrait in an art class there and participated in a theater…
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Review of ‘Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home’
By Cecily Jones The main title of Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck’s book, Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home, is the opening line of a poem by Nizar Qabbani in which he evokes the tastes…
George McShea Fits Well Into Loretto
George McShea is not new to Loretto. That, however, is common among new co-members. Friends, relatives and co-workers are drawn to Loretto. In George’s case, he is the husband of a co-member, Pat McShea, and they have been married for…
Commonweal Publishes Tribute to Ann Manganaro
In the September issue of Commonweal, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan has written a moving portrait of Ann Manganaro, a Sister of Loretto and a physician who lived and worked in El Salvador during the 1980s and until her death in St.…
Mary Ann Lovett Conquers ‘No-Loretto Land’
Readers of Interchange and Loretto announcements and those who check the committee member lists in the Loretto Directory know Mary Ann Lovett. As she puts it, when she decided to become part of the co-membership process, she “realized that San…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Lois Zeis SL
Sister Lois Zeis was born in St. Louis at the very end of 1924; early in the new year she was baptized Irene Ann. Her parents, Frank and Mary Brune Zeis, were natives of small towns near St. Louis. They…
Loretto Circles Keep on Rolling
By the Loretto Outreach Team It is almost a year since the first Loretto Circle at Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis got under way. Since then school faculty members, Sisters of Loretto, former Loretto Volunteers and Loretto co-members…
Loretto Goes to World Humanitarian Summit 2016
By Theresa Kubasak “I’ve been at the Summit for two days and this is the best thing I’ve heard! We need to listen to refugees. Everyone in Europe should be listening. We need to listen to this!” The responder, Andrea…
Loretto Volunteers Complete Their Missions
By Molly Butler July 13 the 2015-2016 Loretto Volunteers captured the hearts of a full Motherhouse conference room through a night of storytelling. The narratives told that night were crafted during their weeklong closing retreat and reflected eight distinct experiences…
‘Religious at the United Nations’ Names Sally Dunne Project Director for Hilton-funded U.N. Initiative
By Sally Dunne The informal group of sisters, brothers, priests, and others who represent their respective Catholic religious congregations at the United Nations is called RUN — “Religious at the United Nations.” Since the early days of congregational presence at…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Severin Duehren, OSF, CoL
Franciscan Sister Severin Duehren was drawn into Loretto Co-membership in 1985 by her eighteen-year friendship with Loretto Sister Rose Annette Liddell, with whom she had roomed for a year of study at Ohio State University in 1967-68. Born in St.…
Remembrance of the Life of Rosalia Duran-Guevara (formerly Sister Maria Duran SL) CoL
Rosalia Duran Guevara, who died in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 26, 2016, was a Loretto Co-member for 21 years and a Sister of Loretto for 20 years. Rosalia began her association with Loretto in 1937 when she attended the public high…