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Loretto Members Share Talents, Enriching Lives of Others & Themselves
The love of God prompts the choices we make as members of Loretto. This love is experienced in us as an action of grace to which we personally respond. “Each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind…
Sisters of Loretto continue to educate, even beyond the grave
Now that the remains of all 62 Sisters of Loretto have been exhumed from Loretto Heights Cemetery, Loretto leadership recently gave permission to Lauren Hosek, Ph.D., to conduct an analysis of the remains of those Sisters. The anonymity of the…
US congregations face their complicity in trauma of Native boarding schools
Published by the Global Sisters Report on July 21, 2022 Libby Comeaux CoL was interviewed as part of this story. Libby Comeaux, a Loretto co-member who in 2021 co-wrote a Resolutions to Action article for the Leadership Conference of Women…
Collaborative Efforts Bolster Loretto’s U.N. Mission
The Loretto Community is recognized as an NGO (non-governmental organization), accredited with consultative status at the United Nations. The consultative work is carried out by Loretto at the UN, which collaborates with many other civil society groups in its advocacy…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Evelyn (formerly Sister Evelyn Marie) Houlihan SL
(Editor’s Note: The following is the autobiography of Sister Evelyn Houlihan SL. It has been slightly edited by Eleanor Craig SL. Sister Evelyn died July 16 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky. She was 90 and in the 72nd year…
Artists find peace at Nerinx
Published in The Lebanon Enterprise on July 13, 2022 “For most Marion County residents, the property in Nerinx owned by the Sisters of Loretto is just a place for retired members of the order and elderly citizens to reside. But…
Loretto Magazine – Summer 2022
Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Eva Marie Salas SL and Lupe Arciniega SL Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton to Academy graduate For more than 22 years Mary E.…
Loretto Stands with the Church in Opposing Nuclear Weapons
I Am the Way, the Loretto Constitutions, uses Scriptural passages to guide Loretto’s work. The Old Testament prophet Jerimiah tells us quite plainly, “I know the plans I have in mind for you, plans for peace and not disaster, reserving…
Bringing Sisters Back Together: Loretto Begins Exhumation of Sisters Buried in Loretto Heights Cemetery
Five years ago, with the announcement of the pending sale of the Loretto Heights campus, Loretto began prayerful and thoughtful research into how the Community could best ensure the perpetual care of the 62 Sisters of Loretto buried in the…
Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton to Academy graduate
The goodness I have experienced here is a font of endless joy and energy for me. Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen For more than 22 years Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen SL has headed Loretto Academy in El Paso. She arrived to…
Loretto Heeds John Lewis’s Call To Find Way To Get In ‘Good Trouble’
John Lewis said to America, “You must find a way to get in the way and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. … You have a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate, when you leave here, to go out…