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Beef and Climate Change: A Continuum

By Susan Classen CoL / April 1, 2018 /
A tall grass field with black cows grazing on a sunny day.

Does eating beef harm the planet? Many are asking that important question and, like most good questions, there is no clear answer. Think of a continuum ranging from beef choices…

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Guatemala Snapshots: Continuing the Guatemala Sister Community Trip

By Patricia Geier CoL / April 1, 2018 /
6 women of all ages smiling together for a group picture in a room with wooden lockers in the background.

Editor’s Note: In January, Mary Ann McGivern, Irma Avila, Alicia Ramirez and Pat Geier spent 10 days in Guatemala visiting our sister community, Las Hermanas de la Sagrada Familia. The…

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Welcome, New Loretto Co-Members Julie Popham and Sally Maresh!

By Loretto Community / April 1, 2018 /
A woman with short brown hair and blue eyes smiling brightly for a selfie picture in front of a yellow wall.

Loretto welcomes its newest co-members, from left, Julie Popham and Sally Maresh. Photos courtesy of Lisa Reynolds

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CSW62 (Commission on the Status of Women) – 2018

By Loretto Community / March 28, 2018 /
A group of people lean in for a photo in a large, high ceiling-ed space.

2018’s CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) had the priority theme of “challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.” It reviewed…

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Loretto Takes Part in U.N.’s 62nd Conference on the Status of Women and Girls

By Loretto Community / March 23, 2018 /
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Loretto History Through Comics

By Loretto Community / March 22, 2018 /

By Laurel Wilson Throughout their 200-year history, Lorettos have seen the importance of sharing their past. Numerous Sister of Loretto have used their writing talents to record the history of…

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Loretto’s Second Century

By Loretto Community / March 21, 2018 /

“A Century of Change,” a book initiated by PJ Manion with the writing of 20 Loretto community members, was published just in time for the 2012 Loretto Jubilee. Judi Jennings,…

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Our Second Archivist, M. Matilda Barrett

By Loretto Community / March 8, 2018 /

By Katie Santa Ana In June of 1968, author Paul Horgan wrote to Sister Mary Luke Tobin SL: “I have never forgotten the kindness and generosity of my reception at…

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Loretto Earth Network News – Spring 2018

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2018 /
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Building Relationship Through Loretto Presence

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2018 /
Two older women smiling with a group of young children in school uniforms smiling together for a group picture outdoors.

By Kay Carlew and Maria Visse Editor’s Note: In 2016 the Ghana Sister Committee realized that for the two communities, the Daughters of the Most Blessed Trinity (FST) and Loretto,…

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Racial Justice and the Imagination’: Seeing Our Way in the Dark

By Mary Catherine Rabbitt SL / March 1, 2018 /
A man with glasses playing a guitar in front of a music stand and a microphone indoors.

More than 50 Loretto Community members and friends gathered at the Loretto Center in Denver Jan. 27 to hear Christopher (Chris) Pramuk present a reflection on “Racial Justice and the…

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Sister Community Committee for Guatemala Gives Trip Report

By Irma Avila SL / March 1, 2018 /
A teacher holding hands with a young girl in a school uniform. The young girl is a line leader of the line of her classmates headed inside from the playground.

On Jan. 22, Mary Ann McGivern, Connie Newton and I went to La Escuela Sagrada Familia – Zona 10 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. During our visit, we shared the reality…

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