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Tag 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.
Exploring Intersections: Eliminating Gun Violence
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Exploring Intersections: Ending Human Trafficking
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Exploring Intersections: Racial Justice
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Exploring Intersections: Migration
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Exploring Intersections: Care of Creation
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Exploring Intersections: Gender Equity
“Exploring Intersections” is a year-long series. Each episode will focus on a social issue and explore how it intersects with racism, migration and climate in a thought-provoking and engaging conversation. Panelists will offer their perspectives, notable achievements and insight on…
Loretto Stands with, Commits to LGBT Youth/Persons
Loretto President Barbara Nicholas, on behalf of the Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community, joined with other women religious congregations in Kentucky to sign a statement making public their support for LGBT youth The statement, created by the Catholic LGBT Ministry of…
A Long Journey and More to Go… 75 Years of Nuclear Madness
Driving through the prairie grass-lands of northeast Colorado one would never know there are nuclear weapons buried there. Out of sight, out of mind. There are 49 silos that house Minuteman III missiles armed with nuclear warheads governed from Warren…
Loretto Joins with Other Congregations in Signing Statement in Support of ‘God Is On Your Side’ and LGBT Youth
We support the recent statement, “God Is On Your Side,” by 12 U.S. Catholic Bishops in support of at-risk LGBT youth and the work of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. We respect the intrinsic dignity of all human life, including the…
Our Journey of Peace
“Because of our God’s deep compassion, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide us on the path of peace.” …
‘Pray for a woman facing execution, and for her victim killed in 2004’
Editor’s Note: It is with sadness that Loretto reports, according to the Associated Press, that Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. Her time of death was 1:31 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13,…
We Repent
Ann Rhodes, the youngest of the first six Sisters of Loretto, arrived at the log cabin that was to be home and school with Tom, an enslaved man, her property. It was 1812. We know that. We know that Tom…