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Sept. 24 Interfaith Voices was awarded first place in the radio/podcast category at the annual awards banquet of the Religion News Association. The award was specifically for a story on Buddhism in China. This officially atheist government, which once destroyed…
Interchange joins in congratulating Helen Santa-maria, who is a 2016 Woman of Impact in El Paso. She was honored in September at the El Paso Country Club.
By Cathy Hartrich (Editor’s Note: Cathy Hartrich is a member of Loretto Circle, St. Louis, and serves as chairwoman of the theology department at Nerinx Hall High School.) What an honor it was to celebrate Loretto Earth Network’s 25th anniversary…
By Theresa Kubasak Maryam is a talented young woman from Syria who was very active at the Ad Dar Center where I volunteered in Istanbul. Maryam made this self- portrait in an art class there and participated in a theater…
By Cecily Jones The main title of Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck’s book, Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home, is the opening line of a poem by Nizar Qabbani in which he evokes the tastes…
George McShea is not new to Loretto. That, however, is common among new co-members. Friends, relatives and co-workers are drawn to Loretto. In George’s case, he is the husband of a co-member, Pat McShea, and they have been married for…
LCWR, MMS Come Together for Girls Aug. 27 the local St. Louis Area LCWR invited Marian Middle School President Mary Elizabeth Grimes to make a presentation at its annual workshop for women religious. The workshop theme, “Building the Beloved Community…
In the September issue of Commonweal, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan has written a moving portrait of Ann Manganaro, a Sister of Loretto and a physician who lived and worked in El Salvador during the 1980s and until her death in St.…
Readers of Interchange and Loretto announcements and those who check the committee member lists in the Loretto Directory know Mary Ann Lovett. As she puts it, when she decided to become part of the co-membership process, she “realized that San…
By the Loretto Outreach Team It is almost a year since the first Loretto Circle at Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis got under way. Since then school faculty members, Sisters of Loretto, former Loretto Volunteers and Loretto co-members…
Pearl McGivney signs a lot of letters on behalf of the Loretto Community. Like the rest of us, she receives email requests to sign letters and petitions, and , like the rest of us, she chooses what to sign as…
By Theresa Kubasak “I’ve been at the Summit for two days and this is the best thing I’ve heard! We need to listen to refugees. Everyone in Europe should be listening. We need to listen to this!” The responder, Andrea…