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The Miraculous Loretto Chapel Staircase

By Loretto Community / October 5, 2025 /

Published by Atlas Obscura September 30, 2025 Dylan Thuras: If you’re a nun and you’re facing a problem you don’t know how to solve, you might pray on it. If…

‘What It Means to Lead with Loretto’: A letter from Iswari Natarajan, President of St. Mary’s Academy

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2025 /

The Loretto Community is proud of our legacy and continuing mission of Catholic education. So it is with pleasure that we share this letter from Iswari Natarajan, the President and…

Loretto Retreats – Monday Musings

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2025 /

Every Monday, Loretto retreat directors Susan Classen and JoAnn Gates write a Monday Musing reflection for social media. Here are a few of the recent musings … What points me…

‘An immense blessing’: Sister Jeannine Gramick’s work as an LGBTQ+ advocate

By Loretto Community / September 29, 2025 /

The Loretto Community honors Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick. Originally from Philadelphia Jeannine moved to Baltimore in 1960 to join the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She was an associate professor…

 Loretto ‘acts for peace’ in many splendid ways!

By Loretto Community / September 23, 2025 /

“Justice shall flourish in the time of God, with the promise of peace forever.” The first thing we can do is pray: “Our great and merciful God, source of all…

Loretto lawyers live out Loretto mission, ‘work for justice’ through legal system

By Loretto Community / September 15, 2025 /

Over the past few decades, a number of lawyers have been associated with the Sisters of Loretto-Loretto Community. Two women, formerly Sisters of Loretto, left the Community in the 1960s…

A Treasure in Loretto Kentucky: The Loretto Child Care Center 

By Loretto Community / September 10, 2025 /

By Marlene Spero SL A treasure, the Loretto Child Care Center (LCCC) is located in rural Marion County, Kentucky and is a non-profit program dedicated to the positive growth and…

Celebrating Loretto’s family connections!

By Loretto Community / September 8, 2025 /

Who knew?! There are so many family connections within Loretto. We have a cousin triangle – Marlene Spero SL is cousin to Joan Spero SL, who is cousin to Denver…

Sr. Jeannine Gramick asks: Will actions affirm Pope Leo’s words on LGBTQ+ people?

By Loretto Community / September 8, 2025 /

Originally published by National Catholic Reporter September 4, 2025 Like millions of the world’s poor, and not so poor, I miss the warm, good-hearted, down-to-earth Pope Francis. His personality came…

A Habit Of Activism

By Loretto Community / September 3, 2025 /

Originally published by The Flying Mantis August 28, 2025 The Sisters of Loretto have a long history of social activism. You don’t want to mess with these nuns! Let me…

An interview with Loretto at the UN intern Hannah Reyes

By Loretto Community / September 3, 2025 /

By Sophie Connors2025-26 Loretto at the UN intern A 2024 graduate of St. Mary’s Academy (SMA), Hannah Reyes proudly shares that she was educated by Loretto for 13 years, starting…

Farm to Table Dinner 2025 Registration

By Loretto Community / August 30, 2025 /

The Farm to Table Dinner on October 18th is completely sold out! Thank you for your interest and support of the Loretto Motherhouse Farm and the Marion County 4-H and…

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