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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 threats to humanity” and how there is need “to make…
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 land became a spiritual journey, an arduous undertaking, a journey…
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 writing, a good legal mind, and a deep appreciation of…
![Historic postcard showing a white, southwest-style building with low trees and shrubs surrounding in and in the foreground. Printed text on the bottom reads "Las Cruces, N. Mex. Loretto Academy" The date "Sept 11, [19]08" is handwritten.](https://www.lorettocommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lhc21_A_k_Las-Cruces_VisitationLoretto-Academy_111a-e1663600252905-768x463.jpg)
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, Allison Lemons. Co-membership means that Loretto welcomes a partner in…
Posted by Global Sisters Report on September 5, 2022 Sisters and congregational advocates at the United Nations are disappointed but not surprised at the breakdown of a monthlong meeting examining ways to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. ……
Published by the Santa Fe New Mexican on September 13, 2022 She stands there, a study in spiritual power and dignity, with one hand pulling a soul from the mouth of hell and the other confidently cradling the baby Jesus.…
Loretto’s Latin America/Caribbean Committee (LACC) was founded in 1985. It exists to be a healing presence, a source of hope and a force for change. It seeks justice and peace for all who are impacted by the inhumane immigration policies…
Facilitating learning events for the surrounding community continues to be central to the Farm’s work. Over the past six years the Loretto Motherhouse Farm has hosted Farmer Field Days to share research projects, environmentally-focused farming practices and more with local…
The Loretto Motherhouse Farm, formerly St. Stephens Farm, has been a productive farm operation since at least the late 1700’s, before the Sisters of Loretto were organized. In its earliest days the Farm provided sustenance for those who lived and…
How could we have done it without Carolyn Jaramillo? She and so many helpers worked for months to get our Loretto travelers to Washington, D.C. with confidence, excitement and eagerness for new experiences. Roberta Hudlow created a new banner behind…
By Kaye Edwards Overwhelming, devastating, informative and a very necessary look at the violent history of enslavement to lynching to wholesale incarceration of the descendants of people kidnapped from their homelands in Africa — these words are hardly adequate to…