Climate Justice
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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I’m not sure about you, but when I grew up in the 1960s there were not many single-use plastics in our everyday lives. To me it makes no sense whatsoever…
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The Loretto Community Carbon Reduction Fund helps to re-green, decrease harm to Earth If you get a cut or wound on your body, are you not going to care for…
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