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Interchange

Thoughtful and engaging news stories of interest to the Loretto Community and friends.

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Mary Swain’s Letter Writing Campaign To Block LG&E’s Natural Gas Pipeline

Last spring Mary Swain received a call for help from an organizer from Cedar Grove in Bullitt County, Ky., north of Nelson and adjoining Jefferson County. The utility company LG&E wants to run a natural gas line through the county,…

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Bernheim Forest Is Endangered

“Loved places become our heart’s geography.” — Whitney Wurzel former Bernheim Education Director Many of you know that I have worked at Bernheim Forest for almost 20 years. What you may not know is that Bernheim inspired me as a little…

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Ruth Fitzpatrick Celebrates 25 Years as a Loretto Co-member

(Editor’s Note: Information from Mary Hunt, friend of Loretto, and from Ruth’s son, John Fitzpatrick, via Jeannine Gramick) Mary Hunt writes, “Ruth McDonough Fitzpatrick made a signal contribution through her leadership of the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) and participation in…

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Teaching English at the Belga School in Guatemala City, Guatemala

For three weeks this past July I worked with the seven English teachers at the Belga School in Guatemala City, taught some of the English classes and helped the faculty evaluate ways to improve the English program at the school.…

Kathy Wright SL
November 1, 2019
Global Loretto, Interchange, Mission, SLs
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Loretto Showers Volunteers with Necessities, Creative Gifts

If you walked into any of the Loretto Volunteer gatherings in St. Louis, Denver or El Paso on Aug. 18 for the annual shower, you would have felt palpable energy, heard cheerful and sustained laughter and seen myriad wrapped multi-colored…

Claudia Calzetta SL
October 1, 2019
Denver, El Paso, Interchange, St. Louis, Volunteers

Four women standing and smiling surrounding a man in a wheelchair for a group picture. They are all wearing dress clothes, it is the man in the center's 90th birthday.

Peter Urban Celebrates 90 Years!

At Peter Urban’s 90th birthday party, Loretto members and many Latino folks celebrated. A Mariachi band played to the delight of Father Peter. The St. Anthony parishioners prepared an extensive dinner for all. A Sister of Sorrows, Madre Mariana Bustillos…

Loretto Makes Progress on Raising Wages

As a follow up to our Assembly Proposal 7 to raise the wages of our employees, our Community Group 16 decided to take the next step. First, we celebrated the fact that Loretto leadership acted on our Assembly proposal and…

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Connections Across Time and Place

This past May when I attended the meeting of the Union of International Superiors General (UISG) in Rome, I was at the table with Claire Sykes, a Faithful Companion of Jesus (FCJ) sister from London. She asked me if there…

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Co-Member Lillian Moskeland Celebrates Silver Jubilee

Twenty-five years ago Lillian Bruce Moskeland decided to become part of the Loretto family. She and I then had one more life adventure to add to our ever-growing friendship and sisterhood. Lillian was 9 years old when I left for the novitiate,…

Loretto Link Thanks Transition Board, Elects New Board at August Gathering

One of the first orders of business of the Loretto Link gathering was to applaud the outgoing transitional board: Libby Comeaux, Eileen Custy, Sally Dunne, Kim Klein, Karen Knoll, Anna Koop, Maureen O’Connell and Paulette Peterson. They took to the…

A woman, Donna Doyle, with short grey hair pulled back and dark-framed glasses wearing a plaid grey suit with a bright red bowtie. She is smiling for a picture at an indoor social event.

Donna Doyle Chats About Her 25 Years as a Loretto Co-member

(Editor’s Note: Material obtained from telephone conversation between Martha Alderson and Donna Doyle) Born in Mobile, Ala., Donna Doyle still has Mobile in her speech pattern after all these years. She began teaching at age 18, as she says knowing…

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Getting to Know Jane Wilson, 25 Years a Co-member

I met Jane Wilson in the 70s when I went to live in community and teach at Pendle Hill, a Quaker adult learning/living community in Pennsylvania. I taught (actually shared learning) a class in the Gospels, about 15-20 adults, all…