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Painting love and gratitude

By Martha Alderson CoL / March 3, 2025 /
Four women smiling together while sitting at a craft table painting small wooden boxes inside.

My mother, my grandmother, my aunt, my friend. These honored ones, whose names were part of an art project, were some of those remembered in the painting on wooden blocks.…

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Our hearts break open…

By Donna Day SL / March 3, 2025 /

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. Joanna Macy All the children in our time who are starving or dying from pneumonia, or any disease, belong to…

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Sisters of Selma

By Loretto Community / March 3, 2025 /
Three women walking on the sidewalk of a road bridge with a large white arch and the sign Edmund Pettus Bridge on an overcast day.

After Selma, Sister, you can’t stay home again. Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler SSND March is the 60th Anniversary of the Selma, Ala., marches. During March 1965, approximately 50 sisters representing…

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What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / March 3, 2025 /
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It seems that at any Loretto gathering since the U.S. election on Nov. 7, the conversation would turn to the hard question of how can we love those whose words…

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Re-discovering America: Understanding colonization

By Sister Anndavid Naeger SL / February 5, 2025 /
A man wearing glasses and a flannel shirt speaking into a microphone indoors.

On Dec. 2 at the Loretto Motherhouse L. Kilan Jacobs came carrying the whole life of his Osage history, which he shared with us without any notes. He covered a…

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Celebrating together Christmas 2024 in the USA

By Loretto Community / February 4, 2025 /
Three women standing and one woman sitting smiling together for a group picture indoors while wearing warm sweaters and scarves.

By Maribah, Shaista and Saima One of the most significant aspects of Christmas is the emphasis on charity and helping those in need. This holy day brings people together in…

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A day in the life of your United Nations rep

By Beth Blissman CoL / February 4, 2025 /

For over a decade, Loretto at the UN has been a proud member of the Working Group on Girls (WGG). A global coalition of organizations, WGG was established nearly 30…

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What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / February 4, 2025 /
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Every February we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. It’s not so much a day to celebrate the person known as Valentine, but a day to express our love and receive love…

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What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / December 12, 2024 /
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Richard Rohr’s “Daily Meditation” on Oct. 28 featured an article by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson in which he discussed the problem in today’s politics. He based the problem on the temptation to…

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Loretto Roots tours past, present and future

By Eleanor Craig SL / December 12, 2024 /
A vintage picture of a large white building with red roofs.

Last month, Interchange included an article about a recent Loretto Roots trip from Loretto Motherhouse to Maryland, following the journeys of early Maryland Catholics and the first Loretto members. Several…

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Pope Francis meets with transgender, intersex and ally Catholics

By Jeannine Gramick SL / December 12, 2024 /
Five people were pictured smiling with the pope sitting in the middle of the group.

During the last two years, New Ways Ministry, the organization I co-founded to reconcile LGBTQ+ Catholics and the institutional Church, sponsored meetings for some U.S. bishops to discuss LGBTQ+ topics…

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With gratitude to Sandra

By Leslee Moore CoL / December 12, 2024 /
A woman wearing a pink shirt and a blue headscarf is pictured candidly speaking outdoors on a sunny day.

Perhaps your formal introduction to Sandra Hareld came as mine did, at an Outreach retreat. That first one I attended made such an impression on me that, as I like…

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