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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.

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Loretto Spotlight Video – Regina Drey SL

By Loretto Community / June 23, 2025 /

On Be Loretto/Celebrate Earth Day at St. Mary’s Academy in Denver, the lower school kids engaged in hands-on activities to join the Loretto Community in honoring and protecting Earth. Regina…

Organizing 202: The Billboard

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / June 11, 2025 /

Years ago Loretto put up a billboard on Motherhouse grounds that said, “When I was a stranger, you welcomed me.” It’s still there, right at the front entrance, along Rt.…

A billboard call to justice

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / June 11, 2025 /

The May day was clear, cooled by a light wind. The billboard sparkled. Dominicans and Lorettos and other sisters and friends gathered on the parking lot above Kentucky Highway 55…

‘A pope for the world’: Sisters around the globe share hopes for Leo XIV’s papacy

By Loretto Community / June 4, 2025 /

Published by National Catholic Reporter’s Global Sisters Report May 16, 2025 A week after Pope Leo XIV was elected, Catholic sisters around the world have hopes for change under the…

Loretto Community and Loretto Link offer joint statement on Gaza

By Loretto Community / June 1, 2025 /

The Loretto Community and Loretto Link condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine and call on all people of conscience to engage in whatever ways possible to make clear to our…

Sisters gather to promote justice and human rights

By Loretto Community / May 16, 2025 /

Posted by the Springfield Sun May 14, 2025 The Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine’s Motherhouse joined forces with the Sisters of Loretto/Loretto Community to host a Community Gathering near their…

Ministries begun by Loretto continue to make the world a better place

By Loretto Community / May 5, 2025 /

Our life in community in the present time empowers us for mission and is itself an expression of mission.  I Am the Way, #35 I tell you, if they keep…

International Women’s Day marked with peaceful gathering in Brentwood, Mo.

By Loretto Community / April 28, 2025 /

By Jennifer Staed March 8, International Women’s Day, brought 2,000 sign-holders to the sidewalks of Brentwood, Mo., to show their support for many actions. The organizers of the event encouraged…

One Drum, One Prayer, One Circle

By Susan Classen CoL / April 28, 2025 /

It’s Friday, Feb. 21, and I find myself in the Arizona desert standing in a circle of about 100 people listening to Apache leader Wendsler Nosie Sr. “We’re doing this…

‘Community Gathering’ in solidarity with marginalized communities

By Loretto Community / April 28, 2025 /

Loretto Community, Dominican Sisters of Peace invite all to May 6 “Community Gathering” near Statue of Liberty billboard in Springfield, Ky., to stand in solidarity with marginalized communities – including…

As Easter Season continues, Loretto remembers Pope Francis’ legacy

By Loretto Community / April 28, 2025 /

Easter is not over. In fact, Easter is never over. Easter is the most important feast of the entire Church year, we are invited to embrace this great mystery and…

Support for bishops’ immigration statement

By Loretto Community / April 1, 2025 /

Posted in the The Record on February 20, 2025 On February 20, 2025, The Record published a joint letter from Dominican Sisters of Peace, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters…

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