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Shaista Alyas and Saima Munir enter Loretto novitiate

By Loretto Community / October 4, 2024 /

Brand new Loretto novices are Saima Munir, who also uses Saima Kiran, and Shaista Alyas, both of whom lived with Nasreen Daniel, Maria Daniel and Samina Iqbal in Lahore, Pakistan.…

Ag Bash a big draw

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

By Angela Rakes The first Saturday in August was buzzing with visitors to the Loretto Motherhouse’s third annual Back to School Ag Bash. Over 400 people braved the wet conditions…

Spirit of Loretto Award goes to Helen Sanders

By Cathy Mueller SL / October 3, 2024 /

After Loretto Heights College (LHC) closed in 1988, the Spirit of Loretto organization was started to create a home place for graduates. Lydia Peña and Mary Nelle Gage have worked…

Barbara Lee: A bridge to connect to our roots

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

By Rosa Lizarde All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.– Bell Hooks Connecting Our Roots, organized by Loretto Link’s Cooperative Economics Working Group in…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / October 3, 2024 /

At a recent Zoom gathering, Sue Kenney opened the meeting with reflections from “A Century of Change: Loretto’s Second Century.” She started with this quote from the preface by Patricia…

Motherhouse Farm is now a Kentucky Heritage Farm

By Loretto Community / October 3, 2024 /

The Loretto Motherhouse Farm is now a Kentucky Heritage Farm! In 1982, the Kentucky Legislature passed a law to register farms over 100 years of age that have stayed in…

Sister Maribah’s vow celebration a joyous occasion

By Claudia Calzetta SL / October 3, 2024 /

On June 23, Loretto celebrated with Maribah Ishaq as she pronounced her first vows as a Sister of Loretto! This commitment was viewed by many at the Motherhouse, including many…

Loretto Justice Fellows Update

By Annie Rosenkranz / October 2, 2024 /

Just a few months after completing their program year with us, all seven 2023/2024 Loretto Justice Fellows have continued in service to others, work for justice and actions for peace. Four…

At UN Summit of the Future, sisters highlight root causes of poverty

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2024 /

Published by the Global Sisters Report on September 27, 2024 Catholic sisters and lay congregational representatives, joined by clergy and lay allies and partners, say that a just-concluded “Summit of…

Loretto Magazine Fall 2024 issue now available!

By Loretto Community / September 30, 2024 /

Loretto Magazine’s fall edition is now available! As temperatures begin to cool and autumn nears, we offer you this latest issue of Loretto Magazine. Features include two significant Loretto events…

America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025 – Loretto Living Center #3 in Kentucky

By Loretto Community / September 27, 2024 /

Originally published by Newsweek, fall of 2024 This year’s list recognizes 1,050 nursing homes across the 25 states with the highest number of facilities, according to Centers for Medicare &…

Remembrance of the Life of Leonard Urban CoL

By Loretto Community / September 26, 2024 /

Loretto Co-member Leonard Urban died Sept.  26, 2024, at his home in Fort Collins, Colo. He became a co-member along with his brother the Rev. Peter Urban and Kathy Santopietro…

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