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I’m grateful for the support of my colleagues in the Senate and for the faith leaders who inspired this effort, especially Joy Jensen and the Sisters of Loretto. Sen. Jimmy Higdon, R-Ky. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is the grandfather of…
Thank you for your steadfast support of Loretto. Your generous gifts of friendship, prayers, encouragement, time, talent and financial support this past year and throughout the years keep us actively engaged in ministries of service within Loretto and beyond. As…
One of the things I’ve enjoyed most over this past decade is welcoming over two dozen interns and/or Loretto Volunteers to join me in the work of our office. Beth Blissman CoL For 35 years, Loretto at the UN has…
By Michele Stimac CoL Birthdays are happy times, and in Loretto we celebrate them with JOY. When I was a young Sister of Loretto, I recall frequently talking with others about why we entered Loretto instead of other communities. Time…
The Loretto Community has finalized a two-year lease agreement with Seeds by Canela, a non-profit agriculture project in San Elizario, Texas. The agreement is a concrete step toward the reparative justice to which Loretto committed at Assembly 2024 in creating…
Posted on the Kudzujelly substack June 29, 2026 I am an unofficial ambassador to Kentucky’s holy land, an area in Central Kentucky, mainly Nelson, Marion & Washington Counties, abundant in creeks, knobs, convents, abbeys, and art. I love connecting folks,…
Thanks to the leadership of George Washington and the combined efforts of the French Navy and Washington’s good friend and ally General Marquis de Lafayette, the British surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781. The fight for independence was over.…
The Sisters of Loretto with their purely American heritage and spirit are of the very marrow of American history. Florence Wolff SL Editor’s note: In the fall 1976 issue of Loretto Magazine, Florence Wolff SL published “Loretto and the Bicentennial,”…
Loretto Co-member Peg Jacobs died peacefully in the company of her family and Loretto friends as the Community was together in prayer Sunday morning, June 28, 2026. Peg, who was 93, had been a friend of Loretto since meeting Mary…
80+ Jubilee 75th Jubilee 70th Jubilee 65th Jubilee 60th Jubilee 50th – Golden Jubilee 25th – Silver Jubilee 80+ Jubilee Kathleen Tighe SL Happy 82nd Jubilee to Loretto Sister Kathleen Tighe SL! Kathleen Tighe SL was received into Loretto on…
Joy Jensen successfully championed affordable housing legislation for Kentucky that unanimously passed both chambers of the Kentucky legislature and was signed into law on April 7. The bill, modeled after Sen. Sherrod Brown’s national “Yes in God’s Backyard” legislation, will…
Long before it was even warm enough to plant snow peas, Loretto/BVM at the UN intern, Grace Broome, and I were busy nourishing the soil of transformative learning. We checked off details like obtaining United Nations grounds passes; negotiating hotel…