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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.
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…
50 years later: ‘The seeds have grown into strong, tall trees …’
We are daughters of Colegio Loretto; the seeds you planted in us are multiplying in our sons and daughters and our grandsons and granddaughters. From a presentation prepared by the class of 1972 for a visit to the Loretto Motherhouse…
Loretto and St. Mary’s Academy
In my 42 years at St. Mary’s Academy (SMA), it is my current work as Director of Loretto Projects/Historian that is perhaps most satisfying, as it provides opportunities to share Loretto with students, faculty and parents. In anticipation of SMA’s…
Loretto Schools And Their Students: We Are So Proud of You!
Have you ever thought of your school as “holy ground?” Loretto has. The Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto tell us, “Our long and vital tradition of teaching takes many forms; we desire to educate others as well as ourselves…
Buffy’s Retirement on the Horizon
As the 2021-2022 school year at Loretto Academy in El Paso ends, Mary Beth (Buffy) Boesen is retiring as president. She came for the 2000-2001 school year as interim president, fell in love with the El Paso/Juarez Loretto Academy extended…