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Thoughtful and engaging news stories of interest to the Loretto Community and friends.
What is Emerging?
A story told by Frank Tuoti in his book The Dawn of the Mystical Age (1979) goes something like this: Early in John Paul II’s papacy, the state of the Church caused him much worry, and so he invited a…
Loretto Carbon Offset Fund Honors Anthony Mary
On my first visit to the Loretto Motherhouse, I discovered tree identification tags on several of the massive, ancestral trees scattered throughout the Motherhouse campus. Soon, someone put a pamphlet in my hands, “Visitor’s Guide to Loretto Motherhouse Trees.” Maidenhair,…
From Loretto at the United Nations: Update on the TPNW
Among the numerous acronyms spoken daily at the United Nations, the TPNW or Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is one of the most important. It signals the desire of a majority of the world’s countries to abolish fully…
Hunger Fund Update
By Angela Bianco The Hunger Fund Committee has met three times this year to respond to the heightened need for food experienced by many families and food pantries who are trying to meet these needs. To date, we have given…
White Fragility: A Conversation
By Ried Clark and Martha Crawley Nudged by the Spring Community Group discussion on race, six of us from Group 4 agreed to read and discuss White Fragility. We gathered to discuss the book shortly after George Floyd was murdered…
Loretto Earth Network Offers New Community Announcement Series
By Julie Kerber In January 2020, the Loretto Earth Network Coordinating Committee (LENCC) gathered for a face-to-face meeting to reflect, brainstorm and plan its goals for the upcoming year. One of the questions LENCC asked itself: Is LEN (Loretto Earth…
What is Emerging?
Our first virtual Assembly was quite amazing! The presentations were challenging, the discussions lively and meaningful. And even though we were unable to meet each other face to face, there seemed to be an excitement of something new happening —…
Becoming Attentive to Signs of Emergence in Our Midst
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus global pandemic, with the new moon of late May beginning to set with the sun, 25 women from 19 locations in two countries came together for a weekend retreat where we became “a temporary…
From Loretto at the UN: A Quick Pivot Leads to an Inspiring Visit
In a typical year, Loretto at the UN welcomes an intergenerational delegation of feminists in mid-March to U.N.’s headquarters in New York City for the annual Commission on the Status of Women. This year, however, was not a typical year.…
Loretto Community Members March for Justice
On the evening of May 25, 2020, where Chicago Avenue and 38th Street meet in Minneapolis, Minn., George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer. Mr. Floyd was restrained in handcuffs, his life squeezed out of him by the…
GSR Reprint: Q & A with Sr. Anna Koop
Editor’s note: When the Global Sisters Report produced a series on women religious working with those who are homeless or living in substandard housing, they could not have chosen a better person to interview than Anna Koop. Anna has been…
What is Emerging?
The ending is a beginning! LCWR’s most recent Reflective Journal on Discernment presents us with a poem entitled “Trasna” by Raphael Consedine PBVM. It challenges us to view this historic moment in the world as a crossing place — a…