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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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Bringing running water to a Kentucky family

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

A dad and his two daughters, ages 11 and 14, living a short distance from Loretto Motherhouse were hauling water to their home month after month. Judy Popp SL, who…

Sisters of the Earth Community focuses on ‘largest pro-life issue’ — the Earth

By Loretto Community / September 13, 2024 /

Published by National Catholic Reporter on Sept. 9, 2024 Deep along two-lane roads, nestled amid the undulating, verdant hillsides of Vermont, the Sisters of the Earth Community at Green Mountain Monastery…

Loretto’s collaborative efforts extend its mission to work for justice, act for peace

By Loretto Community / September 9, 2024 /

What is the invitation of our time? What crossroads are we facing? What is missing from a community picture? What collaborations sustain us? These are questions that many religious communities…

Let Us Not Forget, Let Us Remember

By Loretto Community / August 7, 2024 /

On Aug. 6, 2024, the Loretto Peace Committee held a beautiful prayerful remembrance Zoom to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. You can watch the recording below.

Loretto’s Midweek Mission Message: Mission focused and issue driven

By Loretto Community / July 29, 2024 /

This week Loretto’s Facebook page will feature posts from Loretto’s “Midweek Mission Message.” Midweek Mission Message, or MMM for short, is a weekly email series that highlights various mission focuses…

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Review

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / June 26, 2024 /

The Loretto Peace Committee decided last August to promote Eleanor Coerr’s historical novel for children about an 11-year-old named Sadako. Sadako [Sa da’ ko] is a healthy girl, a runner on the middle school track team,…

Jeannine Gramick SL meets with Pope Francis in Rome

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Jeannine Gramick SL and friends from New Ways Ministry, the organization she co-founded to support LGBTQ+ persons, traveled to Rome last October to meet with Pope Francis. Jeannine and the…

Doctor follows in Ann Manganaro SL’s footsteps, serves in Central America

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

By Lauri Pramuk, M.D. Inspired by the story of Ann Manganaro SL and her commitment as a pediatrician to the people of El Salvador, in 2020 I helped open a…

The Urgent Fight to Save Sacred Land

By Christina Manweller / June 12, 2024 /

The San Carlos Apache tribe in Arizona is still trying to save the holy land at Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, from destruction. Our April 3 MMM included an Action Alert…

News from New Mexico, the Atomic State

By Allison Lemons CoL / May 22, 2024 /

Between 1956 and 1972, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) periodically flushed water containing chromium down Sandia Canyon. In 2005 a toxic plume of hexavalent chromium was discovered in ground water under LANL property. Fifty years later, those responsible…

Loretto’s two peace committees take small & large steps to cultivate peace

By Loretto Community / May 20, 2024 /

The Loretto Motherhouse Peace Committee reactivated this past summer after having had to pause during the early pandemic. Taking small steps for justice is an important way to cultivate a…

Monday Starter: Sisters join other Catholics in letter to stop US weapons to Israel

By Loretto Community / May 14, 2024 /

Published by Global Sisters Report on May 4, 2024 More than 150 sisters, along with organizations that represent them, have signed a letter urging a halt of U.S. arms shipments to…