Anti-racism

Loretto Community condemns racism in all forms.

The Community is working to understand its complicity in systemic racism. We cannot atone and change without knowing the truths of our past.

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Ritual of Remembrance and Sanctification

By Loretto Community / November 15, 2021 /

A ritual of remembrance and sanctification at the Loretto Motherhouse, a community of wounding for more than fifty individuals enslaved between 1812-1865. The event program is here. Watch it live…

To Listen and Learn: Loretto Confronts Racism

By Loretto Community / June 4, 2021 /

A stone memorial with bronze plaque that reads "In Loving Memory of Oblates and Other Slaves of The Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross"

From the founding of Loretto in 1812 to today, Loretto has sought to live out the meaning of these words, “We strive to bring the healing Spirit of God into…

Exploring Intersections: Racial Justice

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2021 /

“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation.…

Racism, Migration and Climate Crises: Three Great Challenges of Our Time

By Loretto Community / February 28, 2021 /

“I Am the Way,” the Loretto Constitutions, #66, calls us to do this: “The spirit of the poor proclaimed by the Beatitudes demands more than our generosity and detachment. It…

Beginning a Conversation about Loretto Slaveholding and its Implications

By Loretto Community / February 11, 2021 /

Carved faces on a bronze plate mark the Slave Memorial at the Loretto Motherhouse.

What the Loretto Community now knows about its practices of slaveholding, 1812-1865, is an unsatisfactory combination of a very few documents, some speculation and good guesses, and a very disconcerting…

Federal Census Evidence for Loretto Slaveholding, 1820-1860

By Loretto Community / November 18, 2020 /

(Editor’s Note: The Loretto Community is working to understand its complicity in systemic racism. We thank the Loretto Heritage Center staff for providing important research about Loretto’s history of slaveholding. We…

White Fragility: A Conversation

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2020 /

A simple black book cover with white text with the title: White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism

By Ried Clark and Martha Crawley Nudged by the Spring Community Group discussion on race, six of us from Group 4 agreed to read and discuss White Fragility. We gathered…

Loretto Community Members March for Justice

By Leslee Moore CoL / July 1, 2020 /

A black woman wearing a covid mask and a white shirt that says: Black girl magic holding a protesting sign at an outdoor protesting event. Her sight says: Black Lives Matter

On the evening of May 25, 2020, where Chicago Avenue and 38th Street meet in Minneapolis, Minn., George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer. Mr. Floyd was restrained…

Martin Luther King Day, January 20, 2020: Build the Beloved Community

By Loretto Community / January 20, 2020 /

Loretto Community members march with yellow banner in the Denver Marade

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, continue Loretto’s long tradition of standing with and for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s teachings on the triple evils of racism, poverty,…

Loretto Marches in 2017 MLK Marade in Denver

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2017 /

The Loretto Community consists of the congregation of the Sisters of Loretto and Loretto Co-members. The congregation of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross was founded in rural Kentucky in 1812. Today, our Sisters and Co-members continue to live out the Loretto Community’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.” In the United States and throughout the world, Loretto Community members serve in many fields, including education, healthcare, elder care, environmental stewardship and advocacy.