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Education
Our early foundresses, who settled in central Kentucky, recognized the needs of children in the areas of education and religious formation. As they responded to these needs, they found joy and meaning in their work and life together. Their vision continues in the numerous missions we carry out today. Learn more about how the Loretto mission of education continues today.
Maribah Departs to Chicago With Blessings
As readers of Interchange know, Maribah has now entered the Inter-Congregational Collaborative Novitiate in Chicago. She visited Loretto locales before making the journey to Chicago. An interesting, attractive, intelligent young woman, Maribah made good friends in Loretto wherever she went.…
Generations of Excellence
Published by The Montgomery Independent on Oct 4, 2022 Times are hard…our school is learning to navigate a new normal amid a pandemic. War and civil unrest are too close in the rear view mirror. Political parties are quickly headed…
The Critical Importance of School Board Elections
There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. Paulo Freire, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” I live in California and my mail-in ballot is pages and pages long. Like all…
![Historic postcard showing a white, southwest-style building with low trees and shrubs surrounding in and in the foreground. Printed text on the bottom reads "Las Cruces, N. Mex. Loretto Academy" The date "Sept 11, [19]08" is handwritten.](https://www.lorettocommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lhc21_A_k_Las-Cruces_VisitationLoretto-Academy_111a-e1663600252905-768x463.jpg)
‘Que Loretto sea Loretto por siempre!’ Let Loretto Be Loretto Forever!
This week Loretto is in Santa Fe celebrating the donation of the Our Lady of Light painting to the Art Museum, as well as celebrating the reception of new co-member, Allison Lemons. Co-membership means that Loretto welcomes a partner in…
The Importance of Education: Loretto Ph.Ds.* Past and Present
I Am the Way, the constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto, has always had as the spirit of the “Institute” the mandate to find joy and excellence in the mission of education. Listen to the words written about our early…
Loretto Heritage Center Preserves, Spreads Loretto Story Far and Wide
Located on the grounds of the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky., the Loretto Heritage Center houses documents and artifacts from the 200-plus year history of the Sisters of Loretto and Loretto Community. Although the Sisters were founded in rural central…
Loretto Roots: Loretto’s Involvement with Enslaved Persons and Educating Indigenous Children
We cannot go back, we can only go forward,in a cyclical manner.” Kylan Jacobs, Osage Nation Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL assigned Annie Stevens SL and Libby Comeaux CoL a one-year project to look into Loretto’s involvement with enslaved persons…
Sisters of Loretto continue to educate, even beyond the grave
Now that the remains of all 62 Sisters of Loretto have been exhumed from Loretto Heights Cemetery, Loretto leadership recently gave permission to Lauren Hosek, Ph.D., to conduct an analysis of the remains of those Sisters. The anonymity of the…
Loretto Magazine – Summer 2022
Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Eva Marie Salas SL and Lupe Arciniega SL Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton to Academy graduate For more than 22 years Mary E.…
Loretto in Bolivia: Planting seeds for compassionate change
“We are in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, in a beautiful valley with an imposing mountain, the Illimani, which is the guardian of the city and at the same time marks its identity. “Among the residents of this city,…
Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton to Academy graduate
The goodness I have experienced here is a font of endless joy and energy for me. Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen For more than 22 years Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen SL has headed Loretto Academy in El Paso. She arrived to…
Carrying seeds of love to Peru & Chile
In 1964, two years after Colegio Loretto opened in La Paz, Bolivia, a Loretto house opened in Tacna, a city in the Andean foothills of southern Peru. In these photos, Guadalupe “Lupe” Arciniega, who had taught at Colegio Loretto in…