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Loretto Link Co-Sponsors Fundraising Workshop

By Kim Klein CoL / October 1, 2018 /

Aug. 18 temperatures outside would hit 100 degrees, but inside the YWCA of Tucson, Ariz., 65 people stayed cool as they learned the basics of grassroots fundraising to enable them…

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Peace Committee Report: Loretto Disarmament & Nuclear Issue

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2018 /
A woman and man smiling together for a picture outdoors while having their hands in a praying position.

By Pat McCormick and Byron Plumley Aug. 6-9 marked the 73rd commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that introduced the violence of the nuclear age. For the…

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LOREtto: Eulalia Flaget and the Bishop’s Crucifix

By Loretto Community / September 27, 2018 /

By Katie Santa Ana In the museum collection of the Loretto Heritage Center, we have a small, unassuming crucifix with an interesting egg shaped wooden case. In now fading white…

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LOREtto Teaching: FIDES, MORES, CULTURA

By Eleanor Craig SL / September 13, 2018 /

Loretto Academy at Loretto Motherhouse, opened in 1834 in today’s “Rhodes Hall,” steadily pursued its mission of education, through times of financial boom and bust, through the fire of 1858…

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Reading Enrichment by and for Greater Loretto

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2018 /
Three older women sitting with three young children at a round table in an office helping them with their schoolwork.

By Angela Bianco and Kay Carlew It all began with a good idea and a question — why don’t we …? And then it came together. Kay Carlew did her…

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I Will Go – To Ghana

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2018 /
A woman and two young kids smiling together for a selfie outdoors on a building patio on a sunny day.

By Stacy Fitzwater “Madam, Madam!” Children ages 5 to 15 clamored for our attention. Come, play on the dirt field. Come, ride my bike, see my classroom, walk to the…

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A Time to Be Born … and a Time to End

By Catherine (Kitty) Madden CoL / September 1, 2018 /
A young woman pictured candidly holding a newborn baby wrapped in a white blanket indoors.

Accompaniment or “walking with” has been integral to our work in Nicaragua at the Casa Materna Mary Ann Jackman (MAJ). Since welcoming our first mothers in October 1991, we have…

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Speaking Truth to Power … Walking a Pilgrimage of Pain

By Catherine (Kitty) Madden CoL / September 1, 2018 /

“Kitty, could you just send us something simple (about the situation in Nicaragua), a personal perspective of the impact on you and your friends?” That was the request from my…

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Introducing the 2018-2019 Loretto Volunteers!

By Mallory Daily / September 1, 2018 /
Thirteen women smiling together for a group picture on the front stairs of a red brick building outdoors.

Thirteen Loretto Volunteers arrived Aug. 10 for their weeklong orientation at the Loretto Motherhouse. As you already might know, Loretto Volunteers commit to a year of service working full time…

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20 Groups Receive Loretto Ministry Fund Grants

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2018 /

Earlier this year, the Loretto Executive Committee designated $50,000 to be allocated to projects or programs in which Loretto Community members are involved. Community members were invited to submit proposals.…

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Death of a ‘Twin’

By Nasreen Daniel SL / September 1, 2018 /
Four women wearing white robes smiling together for a group picture while sitting in a dark room on the floor.

What a blessing and honor for us to participate in the wake and the life celebration in a Mass at the Motherhouse of Elaine Satterwhite. How kind of Elaine’s nephew,…

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A Visit to WaterStep in Louisville

By Mary E. (Buffy) Boesen SL / September 1, 2018 /
Two women smiling together inside a swimming pool pump room with various equipment, pipes, and tubes.

This past July 6, Maria Daniel, Kathy Wright, Barbara Nicholas, Kathleen Corbett, Jane German and Buffy Boesen met with WaterStep in Louisville. WaterStep developed the water filtration system that the…

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