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Thoughtful and engaging news stories of interest to the Loretto Community and friends.
Loretto Turns Out for Women’s Rights: A Time for Reflections
Arizona & Dayton & Denver & Louisville & St. Louis & San Francisco & Washington, D.C. Families, husbands, co-members and vowed members of Loretto gathered around the nation to stand for women’s rights. Ninety-six years ago, women suffered to gain…
A Film Review: Kullaka
“During the 1970s, Bolivia went through many social and political conflicts. At that time several groups, religious and laypeople, went to volunteer in the rural area near La Paz. “They worked as a pastoral team of the Catholic Church in…
Welcome, Christina!
Loretto welcomes new Assistant to the President at the Denver Central Office Christina Manweller. She has volunteered with refugees and the homeless and has been an active member of a local peace and justice group for many years. With a…
Loretto Supports National Farm Workers Ministry
By Roxanne Monterastelli Carolyn Jarmillo and Rox Monterastelli represented the Latin America Caribbean Committee at the National Farm Workers Ministry winter board meeting in January at FIRM, Fresno (Calif.) Interdenominational Immigration Ministries. Historically the NFWM board meetings include an action…
Loretto in Motion: Who We Are and What We Have Done
From the Outreach and Co-membership Teams The Outreach and Co-membership Teams have just completed a compiling a study guide which combines readings from Naming Our Truth and A Century of Change, two important books that provide writings on significant events…
Getting to Know You: Conversations About Loretto Work After Vatican II
By Mary Kay Brannan and Therese Stawowy Does your “bucket list” include reconnecting to Loretto? Would you like to share with new Loretto folks what you were doing after Vatican II? Recently a small group of Outreach Team volunteers met…
Fifth Intercommunity Collaborative Leadership Development Program Will Begin This Year
“Far and away, the CLDP program has been the best professional and personal development program I have ever engaged in. Not only has it allowed me to more fully understand myself and the leadership style I have employed for so…
Colleagues & Friends Celebrate Mary Catherine Rabbitt’s Retirement
With more than 70 professional and personal friends, Mary Catherine Rabbitt celebrated her retirement from Disability Law Colorado Dec. 15, 2016. Testimonials were given by her agency colleagues. Jon Asher, executive director of Colorado Legal Services, and Maureen Farrell-Stephenson, who…
A Reflection: ‘In the Company of Seekers and Saints’
In the wee hours of a sleepless morning, I couldn’t help but think of the opening lines from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age…
Jubilee Reflection: A Little Story About a Lifetime Commitment
Here is a little summary of what I hope I said at my Jubilee after telling the story of meeting Loretto through Vicki Quatmann and making my commitment at Jeannine Swift’s home: I have always had some Bible verse that…
‘And Sarah Laughed…’
A joyful crowd of more than 100 gathered Oct. 9, 2016, at the main entrance of The Sarah Community in Bridgeton, Mo., to dedicate a statue of the Biblical Sarah, whose upturned face is that of Loretto’s own Elaine Marie…
Loretto Academy Restores St. Joseph’s Chapel Pipe Organ
By Alejandra Saldaña St. Joseph’s Chapel at Loretto Academy in El Paso had its grand reopening this past of the work was completed, one of its most stunning features, the pipe organ, built in 1939, continued to sit in silence…