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Loretto’s 2024 Jubilarians: Celebrating with abundant hope!

By Loretto Community / June 10, 2024 /
Archival photo of the 1949 Loretto Heights College reception class - eleven women in habits posing for a photo with joyous expressions on their faces.

In John’s Gospel, you can read the story of Jesus talking with some of his followers: “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi, where are you staying?”…

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Commemorating a Banner Year: 200 Years at the Loretto Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / June 5, 2024 /
A green poster that says "Seeking Home: commemorating 200 years of the Sisters of Loretto at Loretto Motherhouse June 27, 2024"

In 1824, the Loretto sisters and early community were uprooted from Little Loretto, land they had occupied since 1812. The bishop had asked them to move so that a group…

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Loretto spiritual directors help others notice God’s grace, accept it, celebrate it

By Loretto Community / May 31, 2024 /
Three women pose together for a photo.

There are no unimportant moments in any lifetime. All are precious gifts of opportunity to know and serve the One who made us and continues to call us throughout our…

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Let’s celebrate Loretto’s newest Co-members!

By Loretto Community / May 29, 2024 /
A man on the left, and a woman on the right sitting together at a table, with a woman leaning down in between them to smile for a picture together. They are outdoors in front of greenery and spruce trees with other tables and people behind them.

Christina Garcia CoL was accepted as a co-member on March 21, 2023. She and her husband and two daughters live in Denver where she is a teacher at St. Mary’s…

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Seeking Home—Corpus Christi—Mystical Body

By Loretto Community / May 29, 2024 /
Pencil sketch of Little Loretto in Harding Creek, KY

The Kentucky settlers and the Indigenous Peoples they displaced have a common story—they were almost all refugees, which means for one reason or another they needed to leave where they…

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Celebrating Loretto’s newest Co-members!

By Loretto Community / May 28, 2024 /
Five people pose together for a photo outside.

This week Loretto celebrates its newest Co-members! Robin Marlow CoL was accepted this past April 8 into Loretto co-membership. She has been consistently involved with Loretto in Denver for the…

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Dominican Sister wins ‘Climate Hero Award’

By Loretto Community / May 24, 2024 /

Published May 22, 2024 by The Record Eleven individuals and organizations, including Dominican Sister of Peace Claire McGowan and Jessie Rathburn, were honored with the first Isaac Wolfe Bernheim Climate…

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Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 5/23/2024

By Loretto Community / May 23, 2024 /
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News from New Mexico, the Atomic State

By Allison Lemons CoL / May 22, 2024 /
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Between 1956 and 1972, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) periodically flushed water containing chromium down Sandia Canyon. In 2005 a toxic plume of hexavalent chromium was discovered in ground water under LANL property. Fifty years later, those responsible…

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Loretto’s two peace committees take small & large steps to cultivate peace

By Loretto Community / May 20, 2024 /
Pat Geier CoL, dressed for cold weather, speaks at a microphone to a group of people gathered outside a building.

The Loretto Motherhouse Peace Committee reactivated this past summer after having had to pause during the early pandemic. Taking small steps for justice is an important way to cultivate a…

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Dialogues with Diplomats: Loretto at #CSW68

By Beth Blissman CoL / May 15, 2024 /
A group of high school students are pictured with an Irish diplomat at a coffee shop in New York during the 68th Commission on the Status of Women.

The results from our 28-member in-person Loretto/BVM Delegation to the 68th gathering of the United Nations (U.N.) Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68) are in. It was another transformative…

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Monday Starter: Sisters join other Catholics in letter to stop US weapons to Israel

By Loretto Community / May 14, 2024 /

Published by Global Sisters Report on May 4, 2024 More than 150 sisters, along with organizations that represent them, have signed a letter urging a halt of U.S. arms shipments to…

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