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By Loretto Community / March 11, 2021 /

Through the auspices of Loretto at the UN – Loretto Community, another of Loretto’s many organizations that seeks to empower women and girls, Loretto once again is taking part in…

The Mission Bell Repair

By Sister Anndavid Naeger SL / March 9, 2021 /

A large bell hangs outside on a wooden beam held up by two wooden posts. A cross sits atop the beam.

“We found the large cedar tree in the holler near the Valley House,” said Robbie Lyvers. It had been felled during what then Gov. Steve Beshear had called “the biggest…

Loretto Stands with, Commits to LGBT Youth/Persons

By Loretto Community / March 8, 2021 /

Loretto President Barbara Nicholas, on behalf of the Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community, joined with other women religious congregations in Kentucky to sign a statement making public their support for LGBT…

Called by God: Vowed Women Religious

By Loretto Community / March 8, 2021 /

A woman stands at the front of a blackboard. Three students sit in desks, listening to her lecture.

For hundreds of years women religious have followed the light of Christ, the light of those in need, the light of immigrants at the borders, the light of people suffering…

Smuggling Mother Mary Out of China

By Susanna Pyatt / March 5, 2021 /

A historical newspaper photo of a nun in habit and a woman in glasses each holding the same standard.

Placed in the bottom of a display case in the Heritage Center museum is a “vexillum” or standard, a marble base and orb from which extends a metal pole with…

A Long Journey and More to Go… 75 Years of Nuclear Madness

By Byron Plumley CoL / March 1, 2021 /

Five people in winter clothing and face masks stand next to the Lockheed Martin sign holding a banner with the text "Nuclear Weapons are Illegal"

Driving through the prairie grass-lands of northeast Colorado one would never know there are nuclear weapons buried there. Out of sight, out of mind. There are 49 silos that house…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / March 1, 2021 /

It is no secret that throughout the centuries ordinary people have been called to a prophetic vocation. Abraham Heschel taught that “there is the grain of the prophet in the…

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 2/26/2021

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2021 /

1835 Loretto Female Academy

By Joy Jensen SL / March 1, 2021 /

The front entrance of a red brick building with a large white awning with 4 columns creates a grand entrance up the stairs for the front door.

Charles Nerinckx set a high standard in education for the Sisters of Loretto. His “progressive spirit animated the Sisters, and foreseeing that more than primary branches would be called for…

Racism, Migration and Climate Crises: Three Great Challenges of Our Time

By Loretto Community / February 28, 2021 /

“I Am the Way,” the Loretto Constitutions, #66, calls us to do this: “The spirit of the poor proclaimed by the Beatitudes demands more than our generosity and detachment. It…

Loretto’s Long March To Ban Nuclear Weapons

By Loretto Community / February 22, 2021 /

A flock of paper cranes floats in front of a multi-colored circle of pinks and purples

The Loretto Community’s first call to ban all nuclear weapons dates back to the 1960s. For several decades since and counting, the Loretto Community has continued to work to seek…

In this time of COVID-19, daring to say, ‘All will be well’

By Karen Cassidy CoL / February 21, 2021 /

Light streams through two simple stained glass windows into a dark room.

… we have an opportunity to discern how we can recreate within ourselves loving-kindness and hear the Living Light. Karen Cassidy CoL As we grapple with the ravages of COVID-19,…

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The Loretto Community consists of the congregation of the Sisters of Loretto and Loretto Co-members. The congregation of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross was founded in rural Kentucky in 1812. Today, our Sisters and Co-members continue to live out the Loretto Community’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.” In the United States and throughout the world, Loretto Community members serve in many fields, including education, healthcare, elder care, environmental stewardship and advocacy.