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LFN
Founded within the Loretto Community, the Loretto Feminist Network (formerly known as Loretto Women’s Network) was a voluntary association of feminists in the larger Loretto Community committed to act for the empowerment of women and all people. Members agreed to work toward transforming institutional, personal, and structural relationships based on domination and subordination, both within the Loretto Community and beyond it.
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Loretto Honors Women of Spirit, Courage and Action
The Loretto Feminist Network is a voluntary association of feminists in the larger Loretto Community. LFN is committed to act for the empowerment of women and all people. Network members agree to work toward transforming institutional, personal and structural relationships…
New Loretto books of interest
Women of Spirit, Courage and Action This booklet is a collection of profiles and stories of members of the Loretto Community, along with stories of women across the world who have made a difference by promoting change, working for justice…
Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing
Long-time Loretto friend and Loretto Feminist Network member Mary Hunt published the following opinion piece in Religion Dispatches on June 208, 2023. The Southern Baptist Convention stole headlines from the Vatican this season when the nation’s largest Protestant denomination recently…
Co-member Alice Kitchen Receives Starr Women’s Hall of Fame Award
Congratulations to Alice Kitchen, co-member and a coordinator of the Loretto Feminist Network, who was honored at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and received the Starr Women’s Hall of Fame Award on March 12. This award is dedicated to…
Feminist Theology of Rosemary Ruether
In November 2022, Dr. Mary Hunt, co-director of WATER, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual and longtime friend of Loretto gave a presentation about the feminist theology of Rosemary Ruether. Rosemary Ruether was a feminist theologian who through her teaching, scholarship…
Loretto Feminist Network: Standing Strong With Women
The Loretto Feminist Network, known as LFN for short, was established in 1982 to raise awareness of the issues facing women in the world, in the United States and in the church. For the past 30 years and counting, LFN…
Loretto Efforts Create Better Future for Women and Children
“I Am the Way,” Loretto Constitutions, #71, tells us, “We rely with hope on the Spirit of life whose power at work in us is able to do more than we can ask or imagine.” Imagine a world in which…
Book Review: Era of Ignition by Amber Tamblyn…
By Becca Krasky, Loretto Volunteer and Jean East, Co-member, an intergenerational conversation In the height of the Me Too movement, many women wrote about their experiences. One was Amber Tamblyn who is an actress. Her book, Era of Ignition was…
Intersectionality
In the presentation by LFN at the 2020 Assembly (post Assembly), we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of women’s right to vote. As we shared, this really meant white women, as Black women still lived under Jim Crow laws and Indigenous…
Loretto Community Supports Feminism … Women and All Gender Identities
‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky’* (*Original statement by Mao Zedong and a portion of the title of a book, ‘Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,’ by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) Loretto Feminist Network The…
Denver Hosts Leadership-Diversity Workshop
Since the Denver Center closed, Loretto has held a variety of opportunities for community gatherings. May 18 we gathered at Havern to hear Jean East ask us to realize that the electromagnetic field of our heart is 60 times greater…
Extra! Extra! Loretto Newsletters Available!
It may surprise you to know of the many newsletters that have sprung up from various working groups within the Loretto Community. Below is a list for your information. If you are not already receiving a newsletter on a topic…