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Loretto celebrates International Day of Peace with Pinwheels for Peace

By Loretto Community / September 23, 2024 /

Three Loretto schools – Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas.; Nerinx Hall High School, St. Louis; and St. Mary’s Academy, Denver – collaborated on making Pinwheels for Peace in anticipation of…

Loretto Catholic School in Douglas to hold centennial celebration Saturday

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Posted by the Douglas Dispatch, Sept 17, 2024 The Loretto Catholic School in Douglas is celebrating its 100th year this month. The centennial celebration will be commemorated on Saturday, September…

Loretto Academy to purchase its leased property

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Published by El Paso Inc, Sept 15, 2024 Loretto Academy will soon own the 19 acres its 100-year-old campus calls home. … Sisters of Loretto president, Sister Barbara Nicholas, and…

A Poem by Ann David Naeger SL

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Loretto Magazine – Fall 2024

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Eleanor Craig SL A letter from President Barbara Nicholas SL Is this how it is with you? We are entering the season…

Loretto and Nerinx Hall celebrate milestones together

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

This year Nerinx Hall High School celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by Loretto. The school also celebrated the 212th year of Loretto’s own founding on April 25. The…

A visit to the Sindh region of Pakistan

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

A visit to the Tharparkar desert area in the Sindh region of Pakistan reveals scenes of hardship and poverty. Malnutrition, disease, lack of education and child labor are common. Debt…

Living history

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

In this 1961 photograph, taken in the museum at Loretto Motherhouse, Antonina Ryan SL shows an old spinning wheel to Marian Wheatley Medley, daughter of Carl Wheatley, Loretto’s farm manager.…

Students volunteer at Loretto Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

On June 1, students from Loretto-associated schools — Loretto Academy in El Paso, Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis and St. Mary’s Academy in Denver — arrived to spend…

Summer at Loretto Motherhouse brims with community activities

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

In addition to the Seeking Home procession in June and an important Assembly, this summer saw Loretto visitors engaging in numerous family activities. These included Family Fun Day, the Heritage…

Bringing running water to a Kentucky family

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

A dad and his two daughters, ages 11 and 14, living a short distance from Loretto Motherhouse were hauling water to their home month after month. Judy Popp SL, who…

‘Upon This Hill’ – Poem by Cecily Jones SL

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

From “Mostly for Promise: Poems by Cecily Jones SL,” published 2013 Reflections of Isabella Clarke on the Sisters’ Transfer from Little Loretto to St. Stephen’s Farm, November 1824 After the…

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