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Published by NewsBreak on August 2, 2023 “The historic Loretto Academy building is located at 1111 W. 39th Street in the Westport District neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri (Jackson County).…
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The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is an annual forum where member states (countries) of the United Nations gather to report on how they are progressing toward completing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Sustainable Development Goals…
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On July 25, 2022, Loretto Academy in El Paso, Texas, in solidarity with the Loretto Community, signed on to the Laudato Si’ Action Platform and took the first steps on…
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The Lumen Christi Award was given posthumously to Sister Frances Marie Walsh SL, and Loretto Co-member Ried Clark was honored with the Spirit of Loretto Distinguished Alumnae Award July 15…
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“Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high…” From “Summertime,” music by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward, for the opera “Porgy and Bess,”…
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The Sisters of Loretto, a Roman Catholic congregation, are looking for an experienced non-profit manager and leader to serve as Executive Director for the Loretto Community. Our next Executive Director…
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No one comes to work in a job or even a task that they love to be praised. But there are Loretto members, past and present, whose ministry or service…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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