Statements
From time to time, Loretto issues public statements. These statements reflect the Community’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.” We advocate at the local, state, national and global level on policies in keeping with this mission, and we invite you to join us in this important work. Learn more about the Loretto Community.
Loretto, a member of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), stands with LCWR on this response to the crisis in Venezuela and wishes to share it here. The Leadership…
As Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross, we are called to care for Earth in its pain, to celebrate its beauty and to create space for its…
The Loretto Community and Loretto Link condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine and call on all people of conscience to engage in whatever ways possible to make clear to our…
Posted in the The Record on February 20, 2025 On February 20, 2025, The Record published a joint letter from Dominican Sisters of Peace, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters…
The Sisters of Loretto joined with three other communities of Catholic sisters in solidarity with the Kentucky and Tennessee bishops in support of immigrant families. You can read the entire…
The Warheads to Windmills Coalition sent a letter to President Donald Trump Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, asking him to sign the…
Loretto grieves the deaths in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, mostly women and children. All their homes in Gaza are gone.…
The Loretto Community has always been committed to working for justice and acting for peace, especially where women and children are concerned. We fervently pray for a peaceful resolution to…
June 2 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day We, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, the Dominican Sisters of Peace, the Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community, the Mercy Sisters of the…
Loretto President Barbara Nicholas, on behalf of the Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community, signed the statement below, which was released on March 31, 2023, Transgender Day of Visibility. Loretto was one…
We, the vowed, co-members, associates and partners of our women religious communities, are devastated by the loss of five more lives in Monday’s mass shooting in Louisville. This marked the…
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…
