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Meet our 2024-2025 Loretto Justice Fellows!

By Loretto Community / October 21, 2024 /

Meet our 2024/2025 Loretto Justice Fellows! Our Fellows are students at the University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University. Loretto’s nine Fellows are pursuing various studies,…

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Working for justice and acting for peace by improving accessibility

By Loretto Community / October 7, 2024 /
Four people smile together while riding on a golf cart outside on a sunny day.

Working for justice and acting for peace can take many forms. Sometimes, the first step is making sure events, resources and information are accessible to everyone, whether able-bodied or disabled,…

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Governor of Kentucky expresses formal thanks to Loretto Community and its outgoing leadership

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2024 /
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Mary Luke Tobin Social Justice Award 2024

By Christina Manweller / September 18, 2024 /
A young Black woman with medium length natural hair and two small silver earrings in her right ear is smiling looking to the side and wearing a light blue and white striped shirt.

Emmy Stoll and Brendan Staff, 12th annual Mary Luke Tobin Social Justice Award honorees, impressed the selection committee with their deep commitment to social justice. Emmy, born in Ethiopia and…

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

By Loretto Community / September 9, 2024 /
Beth Blissman CoL and five other people of varying ages and races smile for a selfie together.

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…

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Looking beyond Loretto: Bringing our work for justice and acting for peace to the wider world

By Loretto Community / September 3, 2024 /
A pair of hands shape a clay hand to go on a sculpture, visible laying on a workspace in the background.

In a recent Midweek Mission Message, longtime Loretto Co-member Martha Alderson acknowledged, “Sometimes we underestimate the value of reaching out beyond ourselves, whether on a personal level or on a…

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Celebrating Havern & Escuela de Guadalupe: two beloved Denver schools Loretto has long supported

By Loretto Community / August 19, 2024 /
A school staff member walks down the hallway hand in hand with a child wearing a backpack.

To celebrate the long legacy of Loretto education, and in keeping with Back To School Week for many students, we wish to acknowledge the wonderful work being accomplished at Havern…

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Imagine yourself here at Loretto Retreat Centers

By Loretto Community / August 12, 2024 /
Yellow flowers in the foreground frame a white statue of the Virgin Mary standing in the middle of a lake.

“Once we start to think about the kind of world we are leaving to future generations, we look at things differently; we realize that the world is a gift which…

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

By Loretto Community / July 29, 2024 /
An older woman with white hair stands in the doorway of a shed holding a broom looking at the camera.

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…

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Loretto archivists: Caretakers? Detectives? Techies? All of the above!

By Loretto Community / July 15, 2024 /

The Loretto Heritage Center includes both an Archive and a Museum where the 200-plus-year history of the Sisters of Loretto and the 40-plus-year history of the Loretto Community are documented…

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Sharing with grateful hearts

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
Three older women are pictured standing and talking as they volunteer with a food pantry in new Mexico.

By Barbara Hagan CoL, Chair, Loretto Hunger Fund Loretto’s Hunger Fund has helped feed the hungry for 50 years. The Stop Hunger Fund, as it was initially called, was established…

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Serving in Ghana

By Christina Manweller / June 24, 2024 /
An older woman in a blue dress and glasses stands over a young student working on a computer to offer support.

A spirit of joy is truly prevalent at Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy. Pauline Albin SL The congregation of the Daughters of the Most Holy Trinity (FST) is a Ghanaian community…

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