Topic archive
Leadership
All Loretto members are leaders. Every six years, six Loretto women religious and six Co-members are elected to serve the Community. Their generosity throughout the years has enhanced the life of Loretto and its mission. Learn more about our Loretto Leadership.
Loretto Magazine – Winter 2025
Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Loretto Leadership A letter from President Buffy Boesen SL As the newly-elected president of the Loretto Community, I invite you as you read this magazine to journey with us through this window…
Leading into the future – leadership transition ceremony
On Sept. 15, the Loretto Community officially transitioned to newly-elected leadership in a ceremony held at the Motherhouse church. The ceremony’s significant moments included the welcoming of new leadership members and an expression of gratitude to outgoing members. Mass was…
Meet Loretto members elected to serve on the Community Forum
Jackie Diego-Medina CoL has been a Loretto co-member since 2007. She is a licensed clinical social worker living in Texas and has been an active volunteer serving migrants in the El Paso area. Jane German CoL taught on the Navajo…
Loretto Executive Committee 2024 – 2028: Serving Loretto and beyond
Mary E. (Buffy) Boesen SL was elected Loretto’s newest president this past summer, an honor and a role she has stepped into with enthusiasm. Buffy was received into the Loretto Community in 1978 and has spent most of her adult…
Loretto Spotlight Video – Loretto Community Leadership
What has been so important to me in Loretto is living in community where we support one another in how we live our concern about the marginalized, the vulnerable, where we work for peace and justice. Mary Margaret Murphy SL…
Loretto joins with coalition in urging President Trump to sign Nuclear Ban Treaty
The Warheads to Windmills Coalition sent a letter to President Donald Trump Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, asking him to sign the treaty on behalf of the United States and to invite…
Loretto Magazine Fall 2024 issue now available!
Loretto Magazine’s fall edition is now available! As temperatures begin to cool and autumn nears, we offer you this latest issue of Loretto Magazine. Features include two significant Loretto events — our Election Assembly and the commemoration of 200 years…
Leading into the future
In July Loretto gathered to elect new leaders, hold discussions, pass proposals important to the Community and enjoy time together. As Community members gathered in Louisville, Ky., and on Zoom starting on July 5, the excitement was energizing. The following…
Donna Mattingly SL
I grew up on a small farm in rural Central Kentucky near the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse. The area is also known as Kentucky’s Holy Land. Before I entered Loretto I worked many years at the local newspaper as a…
Congratulations to all Loretto’s outgoing & newly elected Leadership!
The government of the Sisters of Loretto and the spirit of the Loretto Community is designed to foster the Community’s faith life and mission. Each member “has the responsibility to be actively involved in creating and maintaining structures that are…
Maribah Ishaq SL
My name is Maribah Ishaq from Pakistan. I have been with the Sisters of Loretto since March 2020. Before coming to the convent, I was a teacher and taught English, Urdu, computers, science and religion to third-to-eighth graders for 11…