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Dear Loretto Community. Warm greetings to each of you. As the 4th Thursday in November approaches, I think of it as the most culturally conflicted, historically misunderstood of our national holidays, one that remains mired in controversy. Long before President…
We members of the Loretto Community hold in our hearts and prayer all those family members and friends of the LGBTQ+ community as they grieve the loss of those killed and injured in the Nov. 19 Colorado Springs shooting. We…
It is good to give thanks to our God, to sing praise to God’s name; to proclaim God’s love in the morning and God’s faithfulness at night. Ps.92:1 What are you “paying attention” to these days? Gratitude arises from paying…
Everyone around the Loretto Motherhouse is exclaiming over the recognition of Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary as “The Best of Kentucky” by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities/Kentucky Center for Assisted Living (KAHCF/KCAL). Administrator Michelle Essex accepted the award at the association’s annual meeting Nov.…
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.…