Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
A few days after the Resurrection, Jesus meets two disciples on their way to Emmaus. He eats with them and they finally say to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us when he spoke to us on the…
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2025 Mayor’s Design Awards Nominees
Posted by Denver.gov April 2025 Loretto is delighted to share that the Pancratia Hall Lofts project was voted the winner in the “Affordability – Existing Buildings” category for the 2025 Mayor’s Design Award. The criteria for this category is “Renovations…
First Friday Club of Cleveland hears plans for Women Religious Archives Collaborative
Posted by Catholic Diocese of Cleveland April 15, 2025 As Ursuline Sister Susan Durkin outlined the plans for the Women Religious Archives Collaborative to the First Friday Club of Cleveland, her passion for the project was evident. “Today is about…
Jubilee of Hope Reflections
This year was declared by Pope Francis as a “Jubilee of Hope” with its theme, “Pilgrims of Hope.” We asked the Community, what is something that makes you hopeful right now and for the future? How can you spread hope…
Press release: Kentucky Foundation for Women announces Winter/Spring 2025 Loretto Artist Residents
Posted in Link NKY April 11, 2025 KFW (Kentucky Foundation for Women) is excited to announce the recipients of the Winter/Spring 2025 Loretto Artist Residency Program, a partnership between Sisters of Loretto and KFW. Residencies span one to three weeks…
Holy Week: The Light of Christ Surrounds Us!
Holy Week is a week of looking backward and forward. We look back at all that has taken place in Jesus’ life preceding His death. The Gospel of Mark tells us Jesus’ main message in Chapter 1:15: “The time is…
UN event spotlights the challenge of ‘rollback’ of women’s rights
Posted by Global Sisters Report April 3, 2025 Catholic sisters, joining thousands of other women from throughout the world in two weeks of meetings, networking and celebratory sisterhood at the United Nations, marked the 30th anniversary of the landmark 1995…
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion shine at CSW69
The participants have spoken — attendees of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) last month answered the question: What did you find most valuable about attending CSW69? Here are a few representative answers: Perhaps one of our…
This Lent, Loretto Reflects on 50th Anniversary of Vietnam Operation Babylift
The first reading for the fifth Sunday of Lent, April 6, has an important quote from the Prophet Isaiah: “Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new.” (Is.…
Support for bishops’ immigration statement
Posted in the The Record on February 20, 2025 On February 20, 2025, The Record published a joint letter from Dominican Sisters of Peace, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community and Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, supporting the…
Hope grounds Loretto, all people of faith, connecting them to God, one another
Can you believe it’s the Fourth Sunday of Lent already? St. Paul’s call to the Corinthians —“Be reconciled to Christ”— may sound easy to do, but it is not. This imperative from St. Paul is more than just an invitation…
Spring’s Rush
In spring’s rush buds push like impatient children, in a tearing hurry, desperate it seems to grow into lushness. And I, like a doting parent, beg them to linger in their adorable childhood; small and barely green, their incipient color,…