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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.
Loretto Teacher Immersion Returns
The Loretto Teacher Immersion at the Loretto Motherhouse took place March 29 – April 1 after a three-year hiatus. In attendance were teachers from Loretto Academy, Nerinx Hall High School and St. Mary’s Academy. They were excited for an immersion experience focusing on Loretto history and mission. The group…
They worked to extend the boundaries of learning and justice
By Barbara Doak The story begins in 1901 when Loretto Academy in Kansas City, Mo., was established. Teaching was the sisters’ primary work for decades as they touched the lives of thousands of students. Loretto Academy, Our Lady of Good…
St. Mary’s welcomes new president
St. Mary’s Academy in Denver will have a new president beginning July 1, 2023. Iswari Natarajan will be the eighth school president. She has been on the school staff, including as chair of the mathematics department, since 2012. She became…
Loretto and the Arts
The Sisters of Loretto were founded in 1812 with a mission of teaching, but what were their schools like? To answer one aspect of this question, an upcoming exhibit at the Loretto Heritage Center explores how Sisters of Loretto taught…
Loretto celebrates its New Mexico legacy
Community members and friends gathered this past September to celebrate Loretto’s 170th anniversary of working and serving in New Mexico. “Our Lady of Light,” the painting donated to the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe (see this article),…
Students give back at the Motherhouse
After the long pandemic-caused delay of two summers, the student volunteers from our three Loretto-connected high schools in St. Louis, Denver and El Paso returned for a week with us. Their days were spent in tasks such as cleaning gravestones,…
Loretto-Associated Schools: Communities of Faith, Excellence & Service
Article #37 of I Am the Way, Loretto Constitutions, reads, “Our long and vital tradition of teaching takes many forms; we desire to educate others as well as ourselves to truth, beauty and the ways of peace, in the spirit…
Q & A with Allen Carl Larson, publicizing letters between Conrad N. Hilton and two Loretto Sisters
Published by Global Sisters Report, December 13, 2022 Allen Carl Larson, a professor emeritus of music at Webster University in St. Louis, has long been engaged with a project to publicize letters between two Sisters of Loretto and Conrad N.…
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…
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‘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…