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Loretto Roots Project

Loretto Community condemns racism and systemic oppression in all forms.

The Community is working to understand our complicity in systemic racism. We can better atone and change by knowing the truths of our past.

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Loretto Roots tours past, present and future

By Eleanor Craig SL / December 12, 2024 /

Last month, Interchange included an article about a recent Loretto Roots trip from Loretto Motherhouse to Maryland, following the journeys of early Maryland Catholics and the first Loretto members. Several…

Loretto Roots Trip to Maryland

By Eleanor Craig SL / November 7, 2024 /

Four years ago four Loretto friends ended a driving trip to Santa Fe, N.M., with a promise that our next trip would be to explore our Loretto roots in Maryland.…

Bound for the Promised Land: Loretto Roots and Enslavement

By Annie Stevens CoL / January 24, 2024 /

For the first five decades of its existence in the antebellum South, the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross, as an early American religious congregation, participated in…

Loretto ROOTS: Native American Boarding Schools

By Libby Comeaux CoL / December 1, 2022 /

In December 2021, Loretto President Barbara Nicholas established a one-year research project, open to extension, on “the work in education that the sisters provided among Indigenous people” in the 19th…

Loretto ROOTS: Native American Boarding Schools

By Rhonda Fore / December 1, 2022 /

In December 2021, Loretto President Barbara Nicholas established a one-year research project, open to extension, on “the work in education that the sisters provided among Indigenous people” in the 19th…

Loretto Roots: Loretto’s Involvement with Enslaved Persons and Educating Indigenous Children

By Loretto Community / July 26, 2022 /

We cannot go back, we can only go forward,in a cyclical manner.” Kylan Jacobs, Osage Nation Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL assigned Annie Stevens SL and Libby Comeaux CoL a…

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