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Ministry Grant Allocations December 2020

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2021 /

A young girl wearing a light pink shirt, a dark pink bow, and dark pink pants smiling brightly while holding a small white stuffed animal in her hands.

By Denise Ann Clifford, Barbara Roche, and Mary Margaret Murphy Amazed and grateful describe how Denise Ann Clifford, Barbara Roche, and Mary Margaret Murphy felt after reading the Ministry Grant…

Loretto Heights College to Serve as Affordable Housing

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / February 1, 2021 /

The front entrance of a large brick building with a large staircase sprinkled with snow before the front doors.

For a century Sisters of Loretto educated girls and young women at Loretto Heights Academy and Loretto Heights College under the banner “Fides, Mores, Cultura.” Pancratia Bonfils SL purchased farmland…

Loretto’s Education Mission Extends Boundaries of Learning and Justice

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2021 /

“It has been Loretto’s legacy to inherit from Loretto’s early women a spirit of courage and trust and a willingness to meet the challenge of bringing education and the Gospel…

Immigration Nation

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / February 1, 2021 /

Three young boys with short dark hair, two sitting and one standing together looking at the camera for a picture. They are outdoors next to a wire fence in front of a glass window.

Some people have described the year 2020 as being the worst one of their lives and that they could hardly wait until 2021 was born! Yet 2020 has also brought…

Loretto and Female Academies: 1830-1842

By Joy Jensen SL / February 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.

After the Revolutionary War patriots believed that their daughters should be educated to uphold the virtues of republicanism to pass these virtues on to the next generation. During this time…

Go into the world: Sisters find common ground with people of other religions

By Loretto Community / January 25, 2021 /

Published by the Global Sisters Report on January 25, 2021 Sr. Nasreen Daniel was a panelist for the Global Sisters Report in their The Life feature series. Sr. Maria Daniel…

Let It Snow!

By Loretto Community / January 25, 2021 /

“Let It Snow!” Lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne wrote the popular song on a hot summer day in July 1945 in Hollywood, Calif., dreaming of much cooler weather.…

Our Journey of Peace

By Loretto Community / January 18, 2021 /

“Because of our God’s deep compassion, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of…

‘Pray for a woman facing execution, and for her victim killed in 2004’

By Loretto Community / January 12, 2021 /

Colorful artwork with the text "We work for justice and act for peace." Art by Bob Strobridge.

Editor’s Note: It is with sadness that Loretto reports, according to the Associated Press, that Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute,…

Praying in the New Year for Our World and All Peoples

By Loretto Community / January 10, 2021 /

Out of darkness the light of Christ will shine,As the dawn of day breaks through the night.Then the poor and oppressed will cry out and be heardBy the light that…

Capitol riot mirrors insurrections outside US, say sisters with international duties

By Loretto Community / January 8, 2021 /

Published by the Global Sisters Report on January 8, 2021 Beth Blissman CoL was interviewed by the Global Sisters Report in response to the riot at the Capitol on January…

Sr. Grace Clare Shanley in China

By Susanna Pyatt / January 8, 2021 /

We have two interesting artifacts at the Heritage Center that nearly bookend the 15 years that Sister Grace Clare Shanley, SL, spent serving in China. The first is a small…

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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.