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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.
Loretto Roots tours past, present and future
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 articles about earlier Loretto Roots trips have appeared over the…
Loretto Roots Trip to Maryland
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. Covid-19 delayed us but finally, on September 29 this year,…
Bound for the Promised Land: Loretto Roots and Enslavement
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 the system of enslavement of human beings of African descent.…
Loretto ROOTS: Native American Boarding Schools
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 and early 20th centuries. She hoped the study would help…
Loretto ROOTS: Native American Boarding Schools
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 and early 20th centuries. She hoped the study would help…
Loretto Roots: Loretto’s Involvement with Enslaved Persons and Educating Indigenous Children
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 one-year project to look into Loretto’s involvement with enslaved persons…