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Holy Family High School Honors Loretto

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2023 /

The Sisters of Loretto started Holy Family High School (HFHS) in Denver in 1922. In celebration of the end of the 100th year of the school, HFHS awarded Loretto the…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / June 1, 2023 /

The Loretto Community at the Motherhouse has the privilege almost every Sunday to celebrate together with song and prayer using a ritual that is profound in its simplicity and beautiful…

The Stars Continue to Align

By Claudia Calzetta SL / June 1, 2023 /

During the months from January to June 2022, we were all aware that for one young woman from Pakistan, Maribah Ishaq, prayers were being said that “the stars would align”…

Spotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women – June 2023

By Joy Jensen SL / June 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. This…

Loretto Experience 2023: A Fulfilling Time for All

By Lisa Reynolds CoL / June 1, 2023 /

The Loretto Experience has been the annual event at the Motherhouse dedicated to co-members in-process. Thanks to COVID-19, it has been over three years since the co-membership team was able…

We Humans have No Right to Destroy God’s Creation

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2023 /

By Beth Blissman and Allison Lemons Although threats are increasingly bandied about globally regarding the use of nuclear weapons, the United Nations has brokered two treaties, which, if implemented, would…

Outreach Retreat Nourishes Attendees

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2023 /

View through a window

By Susan Classen CoL / May 1, 2023 /

Headlines about a 1984 seminal study linking human health to nature declared, “View through a window may influence recovery from surgery.” That early study found that hospital patients with a…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / May 1, 2023 /

Every Sunday I receive “Bulletins from Immortality” in my email from Jan Phillips, who is an author, spiritual activist, storyteller and more.* On March 12, she shared a challenging awareness…

Spotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women

By Joy Jensen SL / May 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. April…

Loretto Roots: Down the Mississippi where Histories and Cultures Interact

By Annie Stevens CoL / May 1, 2023 /

Barbara Ann Barbato and I spent a week of March driving through history along the lower Mississippi River Valley, where Loretto established convents and schools during the 1820s-1840s. We not…

Strong youth participation at the 67th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women

By Beth Blissman CoL / May 1, 2023 /

After three years of online events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was pure joy to welcome 16 students from Loretto schools in Denver and El Paso to the 67th…

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