Topic archive
Climate Justice
Loretto continues efforts to heal Earth
Loretto Motherhouse Community members and staff continually look at how to further reduce Loretto’s carbon footprint and protect Earth. Josh Ballard, Loretto Motherhouse director of operations, shares steps recently taken: To read all of the articles in the summer 2025…
Loretto and Land Justice Futures: working toward healing land, people and communities
In mid-2022 the Loretto Community was invited to participate in the Nuns and Nones (N&N) Land Justice project. N&N was aware of Loretto’s interest in this topic, as demonstrated by the 20 Loretto Community members who took part in a…
San Elizario land update
Since the Loretto Community Land Justice Focus Team formed in 2022, Libby Comeaux and I have been connecting with various individuals and agencies in San Elizario, Texas. I am delighted to give you a glimpse of San Elizario through the…
Global Village Children’s Project receives Carbon Reduction Fund grant
The Loretto Community Carbon Reduction Fund granted $800 to the Global Village Children’s Project in Uganda in 2023. The Project had tapped a Nile River tributary, which never dries up, to irrigate cropland to grow maize. At harvest time, if…
Building relationships at the Land Justice Futures Focus Community Gathering
To build relationships you have to “waste time” together. The Focus Community Gathering in Racine, Wis., did that and so much more. The Land Justice teams from 15 different communities of women religious, the former Nuns and Nones Land Justice…
Dominican Sister wins ‘Climate Hero Award’
Published May 22, 2024 by The Record Eleven individuals and organizations, including Dominican Sister of Peace Claire McGowan and Jessie Rathburn, were honored with the first Isaac Wolfe Bernheim Climate Hero Award. … — Jessie Rathburn helped to establish the…
Carbon reduction award goes to Haiti
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a socioeconomic condition plagued by political instability. Loretto’s Carbon Reduction Fund awarded $500 to the Association of Peasants of Fondwa for an agroforestry program in Medor, Haiti, to rehabilitate a…
Loretto heeds the pope’s latest urgent plea on behalf of Earth and all life
Loretto learned about Laudate Deum, Pope Francis’s follow-up to his encyclical, Laudato Si’, at its October 2023 Community Gathering. Laudate Deum is a call to heed the gravity of the moment and undertake change before it is too late for…
Loretto at the UN represents at the United Nations Climate Talks
The United Nations Climate Talks (COP28) are taking place Nov. 30 – Dec. 12 in Dubai City, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Loretto at the UN has coordinated a virtual delegation for those wishing to more deeply engage with the…
Recipients of Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund help heal and balance Earth’s natural ecosystems
Since our lives cannot be lived apart from the rest of creation that sustains us, might it be that living in Christ will mean living in communion with the Word that permeates the whole of creation … then creation will…
Praise for Pope Francis’ new letter, and a belief in ‘the superpower of hope’
Published by the Global Sisters Report on Oct. 11, 2023 Pope Francis’ new climate apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum has given representatives of sister congregations at the United Nations much to think about — and to praise. … “When other people…
Loretto at the UN takes part in Water Rituals at 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions
There were so many fabulous aspects of the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions (#2023PoWR), in which Loretto at the UN took part. To share one highlight, below is a brief (two-minute) slideshow recapping our panel and water ceremony, “Sacred Water in…