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Who loves you more than you love yourself? Who gives you wet kisses? Wagging tails? Purrs all day? Can say all the words a parakeet knows!? Good and bad! All…
Loretto Co-member Marianne Novak Houston died unexpectedly Aug. 23. Marianne lived with her husband Jim in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was 91 years old and a Loretto Co-member since Jan. 18,…
I was at a nonviolent training in preparation for trespassing and staying limp during arrest at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Attendees didn’t want to be…
This week we are sharing about the Hunger Fund and some of the organizations it has supported that are doing great work in Kentucky and globally! The Loretto Hunger Fund…
The Loretto Community is committed to participating in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, and many of the Loretto schools have done the same. Liz Deines SL, acting campus minister at…
Summer reading – there’s nothing better! Some books are like old friends, others offer a fresh breeze. This week on our Facebook page, Loretto members will share the books that…
Posted by the Global Sisters Report July 27, 2026 Beth Blissman, the Loretto Community’s representative at the U.N., took note of such realities by saying that “we need to rethink…
Sister Mary Louise Denny died July 22, 2026, while en route home to Loretto Motherhouse from University Hospital in Lexington, Ky. She was 80 years old and in the 62nd…
By Angela Rakes A few weeks ago we held our second annual Loretto Motherhouse Nature Run 5K/10K! What an amazing day. The weather was perfect, and the runners and walkers…
Originally posted on the Webster-Kirkwood Times website July 13, 2026 In the mid-1960s, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton gifted $1.5 million to the Sisters of Loretto for construction of a new…
Join us as we celebrate Loretto’s nearly 40 nonagenarians! Two of these notable, numinous individuals are Loretto Sisters Joan Spero and Mary Ellen McElroy. These lovely women are our newest…
Loretto at the UN, established in 1991, and now in partnership with the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offers unique opportunities for students and recent college grads…
