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Working for justice and acting for peace by improving accessibility

By Loretto Community / October 7, 2024 /
Four people smile together while riding on a golf cart outside on a sunny day.

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,…

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Shaista Alyas and Saima Munir enter Loretto novitiate

By Loretto Community / October 4, 2024 /
Three women sitting on a patterned couch in a room together smiling for a picture.

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.…

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Ag Bash a big draw

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /
A woman demonstrates for two teens how to fold a paper crane at table at an outdoor event.

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…

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Barbara Lee: A bridge to connect to our roots

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /
Two women standing and smiling together visiting a slave memorial site.

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…

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Motherhouse Farm is now a Kentucky Heritage Farm

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /
Five people stand in front of a red barn and smile together for a group picture while displaying an award plaque and paper certification that says Kentucky Historic Farm.

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…

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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…

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Loretto Magazine Fall 2024 issue now available!

By Loretto Community / September 30, 2024 /
Cover of the Fall 2024 Loretto Magazine "An event-full Loretto summer Inside ... Loretto holds Election Assembly 200 years at Loretto Motherhouse Celebrating Loretto's jubilarians Mary Luke Tobin Award honorees Visiting a tribal community in Pakistan"

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…

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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 &…

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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…

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

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /
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Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 9/24/2024

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /
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Loretto celebrates International Day of Peace with Pinwheels for Peace

By Loretto Community / September 23, 2024 /
An elementary student sits on the ground amongst pinwheels. A teacher stands behind her and a sign that reads "PINWHEELS FOR PEACE." The o in "for" is a peace sign.

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…

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