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Editor’s note: In July and August the Loretto Community participated by Zoom in sessions reviewing over 100 Community responses to these questions: What is Loretto’s legacy? Why does it matter…
In 1997 The Sarah Community (TSC) was founded by five women’s congregations in Saint Louis, Mo., to meet the retirement and long-term care needs for their members and the general…
Recently I came across a copy of the “Occasional Papers,” a publication of LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious), summer 2012. The theme of this issue, mystery unfolding, raised my…
Since my move to the Loretto Motherhouse, I’ve been asked how I could be happy with “just a room.” To be honest, the thought did cross my mind — briefly.…
As readers of Interchange know, Maribah Ishaq has now entered the Inter-Congregational Collaborative Novitiate in Chicago. She visited Loretto locales before making the journey to Chicago. An interesting, attractive, intelligent…
Aug. 13 was a smash of a day for the Loretto Community and neighbors because of the Back to School Ag(ricultural) Bash I organized with logistical help from farm staff.…
There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. Paulo Freire, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” I live in California and…
Posted by Global Sisters Report on September 22, 2022 … Blissman said the NPT talks were “yet one more example of how the U.N. operates in silos on different existential…
Travel for the Sisters of Loretto to Santa Fe, N.M., in the late 1800s was a sacred journey. The Sisters were hopeful, tired, joyful and scared. Travel to a new…
Welcome to our newest co-member, Allison Lemons! Allison was accepted as a co-member on June 29, 2022. She lives with her husband, Don, and is active with the New Mexico Lorettos. Allison brings gifts of…
This week Loretto is in Santa Fe celebrating the donation of the Our Lady of Light painting to the Art Museum, as well as celebrating the reception of new co-member,…
