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On July 25, 2022, Loretto Academy in El Paso, Texas, in solidarity with the Loretto Community, signed on to the Laudato Si’ Action Platform and took the first steps on the journey of becoming a Laudato Si’ School. During the…
The Lumen Christi Award was given posthumously to Sister Frances Marie Walsh SL, and Loretto Co-member Ried Clark was honored with the Spirit of Loretto Distinguished Alumnae Award July 15 at the Loretto Heights all-classes reunion in Machebeuf Hall on…
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high…” From “Summertime,” music by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward, for the opera “Porgy and Bess,” 1934 Go around hummin’ “Summertime” all day and you will…
Archives are full of primary sources that answer historical questions, and the archives at the Loretto Heritage Center are no exception. The archives hold annals, correspondence, annual reports, photographs, journals, audio tapes, and much more that help to answer researchers’…
The Sisters of Loretto, a Roman Catholic congregation, are looking for an experienced non-profit manager and leader to serve as Executive Director for the Loretto Community. Our next Executive Director will help us pave the way for our community’s future…
No one comes to work in a job or even a task that they love to be praised. But there are Loretto members, past and present, whose ministry or service goes well beyond what one might expect. We don’t go…
A year ago the Loretto Community marched with the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. This year the Poor People’s Campaign met in convention in D.C. and Loretto stayed home, working and waiting to learn the next step which is turning our…
The joy of writing in a magazine about people and places and stories of old is an act of love. It is creative and challenging. It is communicative of a message that is often beloved to its readers. That is…
This interview originally appeared in the Vision Beyond Sight podcast on July 5, 2023. Magdalena McCloskey, long-time Loretto co-member, “educator, former nun, and player of the senior women’s softball club Colorado Peaches” was the guest speaker recently on the podcast…
Concerned about the environmental impact of traditional burials, Loretto set aside six acres of woods and meadow in 2018 as a natural burial site for Loretto Community members.
Thank you to the Catholic Worker and guest writer Anne Marie Kaune for this tender, insightful review of “Give Me a Living Love: The Poems of Ann Manganaro.” Kaune ends with this comment: “The Sisters of Loretto, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan…