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Delegation to Venezuela: Sowing Food Sovereignty

By Loretto Community / July 1, 2016 /
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By Rox Monterastelli(Editor’s Note: Rox Monterastelli participated in the Task Force on the Americas delegation to meet women confronting economic war by empowering a nation. She offers us a mini…

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Loretto Hunger Fund Helps Support Jemez Springs, N.M., Organizations

By Loretto Community / July 1, 2016 /
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By Sharon Palma Jemez Helping Hands and Jemez Springs Presbyterian Church in the Jemez Springs, N.M., area have been recipients of the Loretto Hunger Fund for several years. The population…

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Loretto Class of 1966 Celebrates 50 Years

By Loretto Community / July 1, 2016 /
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By Sue Charmley In 1966, 50 years ago, two groups of postulants were received into Loretto’s novitiate. Half of the class had lived in the St. Louis House of Studies…

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Connie Newton Celebrates 25 Years in Loretto

By Loretto Community / July 1, 2016 /
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By Connie Newton In truth, home is where the heart is. That’s Loretto for me …and the Community has many beautiful mobile homes. Because Jesus said something like, “Whoever loves…

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Loretto Legacy in Pakistan

By Loretto Community / June 2, 2016 /
Three women wearing white outfits distributing water bottles to young students wearing blue school uniforms. They are outdoors in a shaded area on a sunny day. One woman wearing white is shaking a student's hand as he says thank you.

Legacy, from its Latin origins, means “to do good,” or, in the Middle English, “a body of persons sent on a mission.” Certainly our Sisters of Loretto in Pakistan bestowed…

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Jubilarians Reflect on Their Loretto Lives

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2016 /
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By Cecily Jones Two diamond jubilarians, Virginia Ann (V.A.) Driscoll and Theresa Louise Wiseman, were joined by two golden jubilarians, Marie Ego and Sue Charmley (anticipating their May 29 anniversary),…

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Loretto Academy Celebrates the Renovation of St. Joseph Chapel

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2016 /
A newly renovated St. Joseph Chapel

By Katie MartinezPhotos by Ale Saldana A beautiful homily was given at the April 25 dedication Mass by Loretto Academy Chaplain Father Ed Roden-Lucero at the April 25 chapel dedication…

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El Paso Women’s Hall of Fame Honors Helen Santamaria

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2016 /
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(Editor’s Note: Information excerpted from the nomination forms completed by Jo Soto) “Since her teens Helen Santamaria has dedicated her life as a member of the Loretto Community to her…

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Hunger Fund’s Generous Donors Enable Global and Local Reach

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2016 /
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By Cecily Jones The late Jane Corbett, friend of Loretto in St. Louis and a Mary Rhodes awardee, began her 2015 request to the Loretto Hunger Fund by writing “in…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister M. Bernardine Wiseman SL

By Loretto Community / May 28, 2016 /
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Sister Bernardine was born in Hodgenville, Ky., the third of seven children of Charles Bernard Wiseman of Rineyville, and Christine Margaret McMillen Wiseman of Tunnel Hill, both in Hardin County,…

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Remembrance of the Life of Lenore Carroll CoL

By Loretto Community / May 28, 2016 /
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Lenore French Carroll was born in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Earl Leaton French and Bernice Smith French, who enrolled Lenore and her sister Cecilia in Catholic schools in…

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Simone Inkel SL

By Loretto Community / May 14, 2016 /
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Sister Simone Inkel began life as Marie Rolande, one of eight children of Oliva and Marie-Anna Boufford Inkel, French Canadians who had settled in Mobile, Ala. Marie Rolande had an…

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