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LEN Retreat — Saving the Planet Bit by Bit

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2016 /
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By Cathy Hartrich (Editor’s Note: Cathy Hartrich is a member of Loretto Circle, St. Louis, and serves as chairwoman of the theology department at Nerinx Hall High School.) What an…

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Mary Ann Lovett Conquers ‘No-Loretto Land’

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2016 /

Readers of Interchange and Loretto announcements and those who check the committee member lists in the Loretto Directory know Mary Ann Lovett. As she puts it, when she decided to…

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Commonweal Publishes Tribute to Ann Manganaro

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2016 /

In the September issue of Commonweal, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan has written a moving portrait of Ann Manganaro, a Sister of Loretto and a physician who lived and worked in El…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Lois Zeis SL

By Loretto Community / September 27, 2016 /
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Sister Lois Zeis was born in St. Louis at the very end of 1924; early in the new year she was baptized Irene Ann. Her parents, Frank and Mary Brune…

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‘Religious at the United Nations’ Names Sally Dunne Project Director for Hilton-funded U.N. Initiative

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2016 /
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By Sally Dunne The informal group of sisters, brothers, priests, and others who represent their respective Catholic religious congregations at the United Nations is called RUN — “Religious at the…

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Loretto Volunteers Complete Their Missions

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2016 /
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By Molly Butler July 13 the 2015-2016 Loretto Volunteers captured the hearts of a full Motherhouse conference room through a night of storytelling. The narratives told that night were crafted…

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Loretto Goes to World Humanitarian Summit 2016

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2016 /
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By Theresa Kubasak “I’ve been at the Summit for two days and this is the best thing I’ve heard! We need to listen to refugees. Everyone in Europe should be…

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Loretto Circles Keep on Rolling

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2016 /
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By the Loretto Outreach Team It is almost a year since the first Loretto Circle at Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis got under way. Since then school faculty…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Severin Duehren, OSF, CoL

By Loretto Community / August 31, 2016 /
A woman with short grey hair and small wire glasses wearing a dainty necklace, and a navy blue sweater smiling for a picture outdoors with flowers, vines, and a brick building in the background.

Franciscan Sister Severin Duehren was drawn into Loretto Co-membership in 1985 by her eighteen-year friendship with Loretto Sister Rose Annette Liddell, with whom she had roomed for a year of…

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Remembrance of the Life of Rosalia Duran-Guevara (formerly Sister Maria Duran SL) CoL

By Loretto Community / August 26, 2016 /
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Rosalia Duran Guevara, who died in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 26, 2016, was a Loretto Co-member for 21 years and a Sister of Loretto for 20 years. Rosalia began her association…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Veronica Marie (formerly Sister Mary Thomas) Schneider SL

By Loretto Community / August 15, 2016 /
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A very small card rests in the personnel file of Sister Veronica Marie Schneider. It reads, “Announcing the birth of a Daughter on December 3, 1925, [to] Mr. and Mrs.…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Mary (also known as Sister Rosemary and, earlier, formerly Sister Thomas Ann) Nicholson SL

By Loretto Community / August 11, 2016 /
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Rosemary Nicholson was born to James Thomas and Catherine Ann Brown Nicholson in 1922, in Catawissa, Mo., a small railroad community in Franklin County about 40 miles from St. Louis.  Rosemary…

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