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Our local parish community recently initiated a collaborative effort with the Sisters of Loretto to support the parish boys’ school. The school serves more than 450 students with a team of 29 dedicated staff members. Located approximately 30 minutes from…
Ten Loretto Justice Fellows are currently serving with five placement organizations in the El Paso, Texas, community. During the fall 2024 semester, they contributed 2,500 hours of service to people experiencing food insecurity and/or homelessness, to people in detention centers…
Ceciliana Skees SL is grateful for the opportunity she’s had to positively impact lives during her 75 years as a Sister of Loretto. She says, “I worked with very young people, very poor people, mostly in the West End of…
Explore the rich story of Loretto’s peacemaking history in the Winter 2021 issue of Loretto Magazine. 1990s We are called to be missionaries of peace. … It means making space in our hearts for all, and believing that differences are…
Loretto has had a Peace Committee working to end war and create a peace culture since the beginning of committee structures within the government we established in 1970. Members are appointed by the Community Forum to educate and represent the…
There is a ‘relationship between art and religion, there’s no question; it’s all one kind of spiritual experience.’– Bob Strobridge Bob Strobridge CoL has designed and sewn bold, colorful banners for the Loretto Community for decades. The banners, often sharing…
Jackie Diego-Medina CoL has been a Loretto co-member since 2007. She is a licensed clinical social worker living in Texas and has been an active volunteer serving migrants in the El Paso area. Jane German CoL taught on the Navajo…
Mary E. (Buffy) Boesen SL was elected Loretto’s newest president this past summer, an honor and a role she has stepped into with enthusiasm. Buffy was received into the Loretto Community in 1978 and has spent most of her adult…
Nerinx Hall High SchoolSt. Louis Loretto members joined a 3,000-plus crowd in October to celebrate Nerinx’s 100-year anniversary. Festivities included a Mass, student performances, campus tours, carnival games, food from local restaurants and entertainment into the night. A light show…
When the 699 students of St. Mary’s Academy (SMA) gathered for the school’s 160th birthday party in September, it was a joy-filled, high-energy celebration from drone cameras capturing students forming the number 160 to commemorative T-shirts, lively music and birthday…
As the newly-elected president of the Loretto Community, I invite you as you read this magazine to journey with us through this window into Loretto. After a few months of being in this position, I am continually amazed by the…
What has been so important to me in Loretto is living in community where we support one another in how we live our concern about the marginalized, the vulnerable, where we work for peace and justice. Mary Margaret Murphy SL…