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Photo album: Loretto members tirelessly pursue justice and peace

Posted on March 10, 2025, by Mary Ann McGivern SL

Explore the rich story of Loretto’s peacemaking history in the Winter 2021 issue of Loretto Magazine.

1990s

A group of women hold a disarmament banner
Loretto Community members wear sackcloth at a protest on Hiroshima Day at Los Alamos,N.M., in this undated photo. From left are Loretto friend Pavlina, Sharon Palma CoL, Elaine Prevallet SL, Mary Nelson CoL, Anna Koop SL, Eleanor Craig SL, Betty Obal SL, Amelie Starky, Delores Kincaide SL and Rose Annette Liddell SL.
Photo: Loretto Archives
Peace Dove Graphic

We are called to be missionaries of peace. … It means making space in our hearts for all, and believing that differences are not obstacles, that others are our brothers and sisters, and that the peace Jesus brought into the world is meant for all.

Pope Francis

2003

Women and men carry banners at an anti-war protest.
Loretto members protest the Iraq War in 2003 carrying Loretto banners made by Bob Strobridge CoL.
Photo: Loretto Archives

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

2015

An older woman wearing sackcloth and a sun hat outdoors holds a relinquish weapons of mass destruction banner
Trish Herron CoL wears sackcloth at a demonstration against nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, N.M., in 2015. Loretto members traditionally have joined protests at Los Alamos in August each year to observe the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Photo: Sandra Hareld CoL

2018

Older women protest outdoors carrying colorful banners
From left, Mary Ann McGivern SL, Susan Classen CoL and Sally Dunne CoL pose with banners made by Bob Strobridge CoL at a School of the Americas protest in November 2018.
Photo: Loretto Archives

2019

An older woman wearing a winter hat holds a colorful banner
Roberta Hudlow SL carries one of Bob Strobridge’s banners at a women’s march in 2019. Photo: Philip Deitch

2020

A young woman holds a planet Earth banner with two older women beside her
From left, Martha Crawley CoL, a St. Mary’s Academy student holding a Loretto banner and Jeanne Orrben CoL participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Marade in Denver in 2020.
Staff photo

2024

A group of protesters gather with signs on a cold day
Loretto friends, members and the Loretto Peace Committees hold a public prayer event in Louisville, Ky., in February 2024 to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Photo by Donna Mattingly SL

To read all of the articles in the winter 2025 issue, click here.

Mary Ann McGivern SL

Mary Ann recently moved from St. Louis to the Loretto Motherhouse in Kentucky. She is searching for entry points into Marian County, Ky., civic life — funding the day care center, improving jail services, helping stop a pipeline through Bernheim Forest. She is on the roster of homilists at Loretto Chapel’s Sunday Communion service. Mary Ann has been a Sister of Loretto since 1960.

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