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Feeding the unfed: Loretto responds to famine in India in the mid-1970s
Loretto’s Stop Hunger Fund (now simply called the Hunger Fund) financed the nonsectarian Child-in- Need Project for India which fed starving children in two regions following severe drought and crop failure. Loretto worked with Catholic Relief Services which identified the…
Doctor follows in Ann Manganaro SL’s footsteps, serves in Central America
By Lauri Pramuk, M.D. Inspired by the story of Ann Manganaro SL and her commitment as a pediatrician to the people of El Salvador, in 2020 I helped open a primary care clinic for a community of Indigenous Mayans near…
Loretto’s two peace committees take small & large steps to cultivate peace
The Loretto Motherhouse Peace Committee reactivated this past summer after having had to pause during the early pandemic. Taking small steps for justice is an important way to cultivate a culture of peace on the Motherhouse campus and throughout the…
Journeys in justice – Loretto celebrates the 2023/24 Loretto Justice Fellows!
May 2024 marks the end of the inaugural year of the Loretto Justice Fellowship program. At this time last year, the Loretto Justice Fellowship program existed only as an idea, a vision for a reimagined approach to Loretto’s work with…
Happy 212th Birthday, Loretto!
Loretto Foundation Day – 212 Years: April 25, 1812 – April 25, 2024 The Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto “direct us to praise and minister in Jesus name. Grounded by our roots, enlightened by the Gospel and the Council,…
Co-member Barbara Wander’s Latest Report on Haiti
Barbara Wander is a Loretto co-member who has been working with the Little Sisters of St. Therese in Haiti for many years. Click here to read the March 2024 issue of Barbara’s Haiti Journal. Click here to read the June…
Read all about it! Loretto Magazine, Winter 2024 issue now out!
Loretto Magazine’s winter edition is now available! Your heart will be stirred by the Loretto Justice Fellows, women who provide service hours to local community organizations while studying in the social work program at the University of Texas at El…
Loretto’s Justice Fellowship: a bold, innovative leap of faith
The Loretto Justice Fellowship has taught me about community and how I can utilize my personal strengths to seek for justice in every way in my life. Larissa Meza, Loretto Justice Fellow As so often has been the case in…
Loretto Spotlight Video – Annie Rosenkranz
Together this year, our Loretto Justice Fellows will contribute more than 3,300 service hours to partner organizations at the U.S./Mexico border while connecting with each other and Loretto Community members. Annie Rosenkranz, director, Loretto Justice Fellowship The Loretto Justice Fellowship…
Montgomery Catholic celebrates 150 years of excellence
Originally published by the Archdiocese of Mobile in their bi-weekly newsletter The Catholic Week Digest on October 16, 2023 An unimaginable trek by the Sisters of Loretto in 1873 sure turned out to be worth it. Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School…
Loretto’s mission work takes many forms around the world
Father Charles Nerinckx, priest-founder of the Sisters of Loretto, once wrote, “Imitate the burning zeal of Jesus and Mary.” His words to our early sisters and to us today carry a lot of weight. Think about it: Imitate Jesus and…
Loretto at the UN takes part in Water Rituals at 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions
There were so many fabulous aspects of the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions (#2023PoWR), in which Loretto at the UN took part. To share one highlight, below is a brief (two-minute) slideshow recapping our panel and water ceremony, “Sacred Water in…