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Happy New Year from Loretto!

By Loretto Community / December 30, 2024 /

In every journey there is a hidden space for you to discover. Perhaps God is creating it for you now. Maybe it’s a new road to travel. Or perhaps it…

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 12/17/2024

By Loretto Community / December 30, 2024 /

The Loretto Community wishes you Christ’s peace

By Loretto Community / December 23, 2024 /

Overshadow us with your Love, shelter us with kindly care.We have nowhere else to go till harm passes by. Give us courage,Send your light, and joy will be our praise.When…

Remembrance of the Life of Ann Wall Richards CoL

By Loretto Community / December 21, 2024 /

Loretto Co-member Ann Wall Richards died Dec. 21, 2024. Ann was a longtime friend of Loretto who was in her seventh year of co-membership. Below is her obituary, courtesy of…

Recognizing My Voice and Agency in Shaping the Future of My Community

By Loretto Community / December 18, 2024 /

By Loretto Justice Fellow Anamaria Solis (bachelor’s of social work student, graduating May 2025) When I first began my social work education, I volunteered in case management at Sacred Heart’s migrant…

Sacred Journey: Loretto Walks With Immigrant Families

By Loretto Community / December 16, 2024 /

“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.” (Traveler, there are no bridges, one must build them as one walks.) Gloria Anzaldúa As the traveler walks, Jesus walks: to…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / December 12, 2024 /

Richard Rohr’s “Daily Meditation” on Oct. 28 featured an article by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson in which he discussed the problem in today’s politics. He based the problem on the temptation to…

Loretto Roots tours past, present and future

By Eleanor Craig SL / December 12, 2024 /

Last month, Interchange included an article about a recent Loretto Roots trip from Loretto Motherhouse to Maryland, following the journeys of early Maryland Catholics and the first Loretto members. Several…

Pope Francis meets with transgender, intersex and ally Catholics

By Jeannine Gramick SL / December 12, 2024 /

During the last two years, New Ways Ministry, the organization I co-founded to reconcile LGBTQ+ Catholics and the institutional Church, sponsored meetings for some U.S. bishops to discuss LGBTQ+ topics…

With gratitude to Sandra

By Leslee Moore CoL / December 12, 2024 /

Perhaps your formal introduction to Sandra Hareld came as mine did, at an Outreach retreat. That first one I attended made such an impression on me that, as I like…

Loretto at the UN welcomes new intern, recognizes #16DaysOfActivism

By Loretto Community / December 9, 2024 /

Loretto thanks you for your support of our U.N. initiative, Loretto at the UN. We also recognize our partners in action: the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary…

Loretto Shares Advent’s Hopeful Message of God’s Bright Promise

By Loretto Community / December 2, 2024 /

There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars … when these things take place, stand up and raise your heads, your redemption is drawing near. Luke…

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