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Justice and Peace
Grounded in our roots and enlightened by the Gospel, “we work for a future in which the poor and suffering, the hungry in body and spirit, will know God’s saving presence in them.” Learn more about our Justice and Peace work.
Support War Tax Resisters
By Byron Plumley and Shirley Whiteside of the Loretto Peace Committee It is challenging to be a person of conscience in the United States when we know that our tax dollars fund war-making. The government has allowed for conscientious objector…
Studying the Sisters of Loretto’s involvement in the Native Boarding School Era
Loretto wishes to share with you the research of the congregation’s study of the history of Native Boarding schools operated by the Sisters of Loretto. Why We Study the Native Boarding School Era In 2012 the Loretto Community was dismayed…
Loretto Shares Research To Date on Native Boarding Schools It Operated
In 2012 the Loretto Community was dismayed to learn of the Doctrine of Discovery, the religious, political and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land not inhabited by Christians. We confronted the history we had ignored and how we…
Loretto Members Respond to Climate Change Questions
This week we asked our members abroad the following questions: How does climate change affect you and the people with whom you work? What do you wish people in the U.S. and other Western countries would understand about your daily…
38th annual MLK Jr. birthday celebration is a success
Jan. 16, 2023 was the Loretto Community’s 38th year to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The event is known as a Marade. In 1983, the U.S. Congress introduced a bill stating that the third Monday of January would…
Conservation easement now a reality
“For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies, For the love which from our birth over and around us lies.” The singing of this hymn began a banner day for Loretto, January 18, 2023 — the…
A plea from the Peace Committee
Nuclear weapons are weapons of massive destruction so horrendous that to expose anyone to them is not just immoral; it is demonic. On Aug. 6, 1945, our country dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb killed 66,000-100,000 people.…
LACC and Its Partners Continue Fight for Migrants’ Rights in U.S, Mexico
Loretto’s Latin America/Caribbean Committee (LACC) advocates for the rights of migrants and immigrants, asylum-seekers, farmworkers, those held in detention jails and in bureaucratic processing limbo. LACC also adheres to Loretto’s mission and values and works to be a source of…
Weeping with the women of Pakistan
I took a deep breath and lost all my words. After the woman left I sat stunned and felt my emptiness and inability to help her. Nasreen Daniel SL I would like to share the story of a woman. Let…
Black History Month Docuseries
It was so great to see the Loretto presence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Marade in Denver. Thanks to Pat McCormick for her consistent effort to rally folks, and special thanks to St. Mary’s Academy for being there. In support of critical…
Loretto Justice Fellowship Successor to Loretto Volunteer Program!
Loretto is excited to announce the Loretto Justice Fellowship as the successor to the Loretto Volunteer Program! The pilot year of the Loretto Justice Fellowship will launch in El Paso, Texas, in fall 2023. Visit the Justice Fellowship updated webpage to…
Loretto Actively Engaged in Helping To Create More Just, Peaceful World
Article 40 of I Am the Way, Loretto’s Constitutions, says, “Cooperation with others engaged in creating a more just and peaceful world is crucial to fruitful mission.” This week we highlight some of the myriad ways Loretto is actively engaged…