Explore the rich story of Loretto’s peacemaking history in the Winter 2021 issue of Loretto Magazine.
1990s
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
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
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
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
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
Roberta Hudlow SL carries one of Bob Strobridge’s banners at a women’s march in 2019. Photo: Philip Deitch
2020
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
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 lives at the Loretto Motherhouse in Kentucky. She is one of the homilists at Sunday services. She and Mary Swain SL write letters to Congress on behalf of the Community. Mary Ann is leading a call to the governor to commute the sentences of men in Kentucky who are on death row. She remains an active board member of the Peace Economy Project in St. Louis.
