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Maggie McCloskey has been playing softball before women’s organized sports came to be, but as she aged her focus changed. Published by 9News.com on November 13, 2022 PARKER, Colo. — A Colorado women’s softball team may be the oldest in…
How do we live in this world and build a society of love and peace? Our world is ruled by powers that divide and destroy. What can believers do? What to do when negative power surrounds us? God chose to…
An anthropologist looks to a religious community of women in rural Kentucky for scientifically informed lessons in land stewardship. Could they be a model for activists and policymakers to move beyond partisan approaches to climate change? Published by Sapiens Anthropology…
About 10 years ago Paulette Peterson, who directed the Queens Vet Center for combat veterans, asked me if I said anything to my two veteran brothers on Veterans Day. It was a whole new thought to me. I had opposed the Vietnam…
Gain souls, draw souls, court souls, shelter souls. I Am the Way, the Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto,p. 2 What is a green, or natural, burial? A green or “natural” burial conserves natural resources, preserves the environment and honors…
Loretto Co-member Evelyn Donohoo died Nov. 6 in St. Louis, just three months short of her 100th birthday and in the 29th year of her Loretto life. She made every minute of her life count! Evelyn was born in St.…
The Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund is excited to highlight a recent grant recipient: the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project (SVBHP). On Friday, October 28, supporters of the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project held a “Solar Picnic.” Participants watched as solar…
Mother Magdalen Hayden had a devotion to Our Lady of Light. Whether that’s why the school in Santa Fe, NM, was so named, we don’t know. We do know that about eight years after the Loretto sisters arrived in Santa…
Published by Global Sisters Report on October 31, 2022 “Global Sisters Report asked congregations in the United States, Canada and Ireland about their retreat centers and how they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its lockdowns and various restrictions. ……
Celebrations of an individual’s acceptance into the Loretto Community as a Loretto co-member are always a moving reminder of the deep values and cherished community to which many of us have been called. Our most recent one was no exception.…
A continuation of the discussion inspired by Ilia Delio taken from LCWR’s “Occasional Papers,” Summer 2012. Last month we were reminded by Ilia that we are living in an expanding universe and our thinking about everything needs to be done…