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Loretto Sister Communities: Beyond the Boundaries of Our Hearts

By Loretto Community / October 19, 2020 /

“Rejoicing in and strengthened by our mutual love, we go forth to meet our farther neighbors in their human needs and aspirations. We seek to reach out beyond boundaries imposed…

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Nuns at the Polls: Loretto and Politics

By Loretto Heritage Center / October 16, 2020 /

by Ayla Toussaint and Mary Frances Lottes SL It’s November, which means it is election month in the US!  This blog post was written with the help of one of…

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Loretto Motherhouse Farm Promotes Sustainability, Care for Earth

By Loretto Community / October 11, 2020 /

The Loretto Land Ethic affirms that “those responsible for land at any particular time should regard it as a sacred trust, received with gratitude, tended with care for its integrity…

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Sighting of Spirits and the Devil

By Ayla Toussaint / October 5, 2020 /

Throughout Christianity, there have been stories of people who have seen signs of spirits, demons, and other malevolent beings.  The frequency of these experiences, the imagery in them, and how…

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Only One Heart: Loretto and Indigenous Peoples

By Loretto Community / October 4, 2020 /

“As we grow in trust through friends gathered around the table, we are learning how God takes our time and makes it sacred.” Trappist Father James Behrens OCSO Loretto still…

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Loretto Students Return to School

By Loretto Community / October 1, 2020 /
A teacher standing at the front of a classroom talking to students sitting at their desks. They are all wearing COVID masks.

Escuela de Guadalupe By Vicki Schwartz On-campus learning began Aug. 26 at Escuela de Guadalupe. When parents were surveyed at the end of the last school year, it was clear…

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Loretto Special Needs Funds Assist Many

By Marlene Spero SL / October 1, 2020 /
A graphic symbolizing community and connection. A blue and green world graphic with different colored hands surrounding it on a black background.

The Loretto Special Needs Committee is pleased to share our work of the past several months on behalf of the whole Community. Using some of our funds is one of…

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Loretto Carbon Offset Fund Honors Anthony Mary

By Jessie Rathburn CoL / October 1, 2020 /
Six children in blue and white school uniforms gardening together outdoors.

On my first visit to the Loretto Motherhouse, I discovered tree identification tags on several of the massive, ancestral trees scattered throughout the Motherhouse campus. Soon, someone put a pamphlet…

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What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / October 1, 2020 /
Pink and purple butterfly graphic for Interchange What is Emerging?

A story told by Frank Tuoti in his book The Dawn of the Mystical Age (1979) goes something like this: Early in John Paul II’s papacy, the state of the…

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Loretto Continues 50-Year Call for Worldwide Nuclear Ban

By Loretto Community / September 28, 2020 /
Banner reading "The future of planet Earth is in our hands."

“One of our sisters told me she was teaching in Sante Fe when the first bomb was tested at Los Alamos and a boy brought a piece of debris in…

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Sept. 23 Grand Jury Decision in Breonna Taylor Case Leaves Loretto, Other Louisville Area Congregations with ‘Feelings of Great Sadness and Injustice’

By Loretto Community / September 23, 2020 /
Colorful Strobridge banner reading "We Work for Justice and Act for Peace."

The Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community joined with the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and the Leadership Team of the Dominican Sisters of Peace to release…

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Loretto Co-membership Celebrates 50 Years!

By Loretto Community / September 20, 2020 /

On Aug. 15, the Loretto Community celebrated the 50th anniversary of co-membership. Begun in 1970, Loretto co-membership has provided a way for those who share Loretto values of community, spirituality…

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