Mary Ellen McElroy SL

It seems that at any Loretto gathering since the U.S. election on Nov. 7, the conversation would turn to the hard question of how can we love those whose words…

Every February we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. It’s not so much a day to celebrate the person known as Valentine, but a day to express our love and receive love…

Richard Rohr’s “Daily Meditation” on Oct. 28 featured an article by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson in which he discussed the problem in today’s politics. He based the problem on the temptation to…

Recently I received an interesting reflection by Jan Phillips. She started with this quote from Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), “What we are looking for is Who is looking.” The following…

At a recent Zoom gathering, Sue Kenney opened the meeting with reflections from “A Century of Change: Loretto’s Second Century.” She started with this quote from the preface by Patricia…

At the April meeting of our discussion of “I Am The Way” (Loretto’s constitutions), our group was getting close to the end of the booklet when one of our members…

One of the great visionaries of planet Earth is the Jesuit priest-scientist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Much of what we have learned about the Universe and the new cosmology comes…

We probably will never finish exploring the rich sources of interest and meaning from the recent Loretto Link Gathering in St. Louis in February. Every time I read the summary…

At the Link gathering in St. Louis, Jean East opened one of the sessions with this quote: “Loretto Link is engaging in emergence … which is being in right relationship…

As we greet this New Year, many of us habitually think of those New Year’s resolutions that we often make and within a few weeks are forgotten. Perhaps this year,…

What seems to be emerging in our broken world today is an increase of online organizations who do not adhere to any one religion yet produce a variety of programs…