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Governor of Kentucky expresses formal thanks to Loretto Community and its outgoing leadership

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 9/24/2024

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /

Loretto celebrates International Day of Peace with Pinwheels for Peace

By Loretto Community / September 23, 2024 /

Three Loretto schools – Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas.; Nerinx Hall High School, St. Louis; and St. Mary’s Academy, Denver – collaborated on making Pinwheels for Peace in anticipation of…

Mary Luke Tobin Social Justice Award 2024

By Christina Manweller / September 18, 2024 /

Emmy Stoll and Brendan Staff, 12th annual Mary Luke Tobin Social Justice Award honorees, impressed the selection committee with their deep commitment to social justice. Emmy, born in Ethiopia and…

Loretto Catholic School in Douglas to hold centennial celebration Saturday

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Posted by the Douglas Dispatch, Sept 17, 2024 The Loretto Catholic School in Douglas is celebrating its 100th year this month. The centennial celebration will be commemorated on Saturday, September…

Loretto Academy to purchase its leased property

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Published by El Paso Inc, Sept 15, 2024 Loretto Academy will soon own the 19 acres its 100-year-old campus calls home. … Sisters of Loretto president, Sister Barbara Nicholas, and…

A Poem by Ann David Naeger SL

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

Loretto and Nerinx Hall celebrate milestones together

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

This year Nerinx Hall High School celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by Loretto. The school also celebrated the 212th year of Loretto’s own founding on April 25. The…

Assembly 2024: work of challenge, work of joy

By Christina Manweller / September 18, 2024 /

Loretto Assembly snapshots To read all of the articles in the fall 2024 issue, click here.

A visit to the Sindh region of Pakistan

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

A visit to the Tharparkar desert area in the Sindh region of Pakistan reveals scenes of hardship and poverty. Malnutrition, disease, lack of education and child labor are common. Debt…

Leading into the future

By Christina Manweller / September 18, 2024 /

In July Loretto gathered to elect new leaders, hold discussions, pass proposals important to the Community and enjoy time together. As Community members gathered in Louisville, Ky., and on Zoom…

Living history

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

In this 1961 photograph, taken in the museum at Loretto Motherhouse, Antonina Ryan SL shows an old spinning wheel to Marian Wheatley Medley, daughter of Carl Wheatley, Loretto’s farm manager.…

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