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Loretto grieves with the LGBTQ+ community, rebukes hate

By Loretto Community / November 22, 2022 /

We members of the Loretto Community hold in our hearts and prayer all those family members and friends of the LGBTQ+ community as they grieve the loss of those killed…

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 11/21/22

By Loretto Community / November 21, 2022 /

‘It is Good to Give Thanks to God’ – Happy Thanksgiving from Loretto!

By Loretto Community / November 21, 2022 /

It is good to give thanks to our God, to sing praise to God’s name; to proclaim God’s love in the morning and God’s faithfulness at night. Ps.92:1 What are…

91-year-old softball player still going strong

By Loretto Community / November 21, 2022 /

Maggie McCloskey has been playing softball before women’s organized sports came to be, but as she aged her focus changed. Published by 9News.com on November 13, 2022 PARKER, Colo. —…

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 11/15/2022

By Loretto Community / November 15, 2022 /

The Loretto Way: Loretto Celebrates Work of Peacemakers

By Loretto Community / November 14, 2022 /

How do we live in this world and build a society of love and peace? Our world is ruled by powers that divide and destroy. What can believers do? What…

The Sisters of Loretto Share a Kinship With the Earth

By Loretto Community / November 14, 2022 /

An anthropologist looks to a religious community of women in rural Kentucky for scientifically informed lessons in land stewardship. Could they be a model for activists and policymakers to move…

Sing Alleluia to Our God!: Loretto Natural Burial Practices

By Loretto Community / November 7, 2022 /

Gain souls, draw souls, court souls, shelter souls. I Am the Way, the Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto,p. 2 What is a green, or natural, burial?  A green or…

Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project Held a Solar Picnic – 10/28/2022

By Loretto Community / November 1, 2022 /

The Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund is excited to highlight a recent grant recipient: the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project (SVBHP). On Friday, October 28, supporters of the Shenandoah Valley Black…

How COVID-19 impacted congregations with retreat centers

By Loretto Community / November 1, 2022 /

Published by Global Sisters Report on October 31, 2022 “Global Sisters Report asked congregations in the United States, Canada and Ireland about their retreat centers and how they were affected…

Saints Just Do It — Aspiring to Proclaim Everywhere the Goodness of God

By Loretto Community / October 31, 2022 /

Jesus returned to the disciples after his resurrection bringing peace. With the gift of the Holy Spirit, Jesus made them and their followers instruments of that peace. As we have…

The Loretto Website: Your Window to Loretto’s World

By Loretto Community / October 24, 2022 /

Welcome! Journey with us this week through a few Loretto web highlights. The entries are about Loretto members and works of mission that are important to us. We are sure…

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