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The Enduring Mystery of the Loretto Chapel Staircase

By Loretto Community / October 9, 2024 /

Published by Atlas Obscura on October 8, 2024 It’s considered a miracle, an engineering marvel, and even a scientific anomaly, depending who you ask. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the…

Working for justice and acting for peace by improving accessibility

By Loretto Community / October 7, 2024 /

Working for justice and acting for peace can take many forms. Sometimes, the first step is making sure events, resources and information are accessible to everyone, whether able-bodied or disabled,…

Shaista Alyas and Saima Munir enter Loretto novitiate

By Loretto Community / October 4, 2024 /

Brand new Loretto novices are Saima Munir, who also uses Saima Kiran, and Shaista Alyas, both of whom lived with Nasreen Daniel, Maria Daniel and Samina Iqbal in Lahore, Pakistan.…

Ag Bash a big draw

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

By Angela Rakes The first Saturday in August was buzzing with visitors to the Loretto Motherhouse’s third annual Back to School Ag Bash. Over 400 people braved the wet conditions…

Barbara Lee: A bridge to connect to our roots

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

By Rosa Lizarde All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.– Bell Hooks Connecting Our Roots, organized by Loretto Link’s Cooperative Economics Working Group in…

Motherhouse Farm is now a Kentucky Heritage Farm

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

The Loretto Motherhouse Farm is now a Kentucky Heritage Farm! In 1982, the Kentucky Legislature passed a law to register farms over 100 years of age that have stayed in…

At UN Summit of the Future, sisters highlight root causes of poverty

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2024 /

Published by the Global Sisters Report on September 27, 2024 Catholic sisters and lay congregational representatives, joined by clergy and lay allies and partners, say that a just-concluded “Summit of…

Loretto Magazine Fall 2024 issue now available!

By Loretto Community / September 30, 2024 /

Loretto Magazine’s fall edition is now available! As temperatures begin to cool and autumn nears, we offer you this latest issue of Loretto Magazine. Features include two significant Loretto events…

America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025 – Loretto Living Center #3 in Kentucky

By Loretto Community / September 27, 2024 /

Originally published by Newsweek, fall of 2024 This year’s list recognizes 1,050 nursing homes across the 25 states with the highest number of facilities, according to Centers for Medicare &…

Remembrance of the Life of Leonard Urban CoL

By Loretto Community / September 26, 2024 /

Loretto Co-member Leonard Urban died Sept.  26, 2024, at his home in Fort Collins, Colo. He became a co-member along with his brother the Rev. Peter Urban and Kathy Santopietro…

Governor of Kentucky expresses formal thanks to Loretto Community and its outgoing leadership

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 9/24/2024

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /
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