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Each member of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross is “co-responsible for creating a community which is beneficial for all; for maturing in adult faith and effective ministry,..; and for making use of opportunities which add new depth to our formation in Christ.” Learn more about the Sisters of Loretto.
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…
Loretto Members Share Talents, Enriching Lives of Others & Themselves
The love of God prompts the choices we make as members of Loretto. This love is experienced in us as an action of grace to which we personally respond. “Each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind…
Sisters of Loretto continue to educate, even beyond the grave
Now that the remains of all 62 Sisters of Loretto have been exhumed from Loretto Heights Cemetery, Loretto leadership recently gave permission to Lauren Hosek, Ph.D., to conduct an analysis of the remains of those Sisters. The anonymity of the…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Evelyn (formerly Sister Evelyn Marie) Houlihan SL
(Editor’s Note: The following is the autobiography of Sister Evelyn Houlihan SL. It has been slightly edited by Eleanor Craig SL. Sister Evelyn died July 16 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky. She was 90 and in the 72nd year…
Bringing Sisters Back Together: Loretto Begins Exhumation of Sisters Buried in Loretto Heights Cemetery
Five years ago, with the announcement of the pending sale of the Loretto Heights campus, Loretto began prayerful and thoughtful research into how the Community could best ensure the perpetual care of the 62 Sisters of Loretto buried in the…
Nasreen Daniel SL is standing tall in Pakistan with the Loretto Community’s support
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Luke: 1:…
Loretto in Bolivia: Planting seeds for compassionate change
“We are in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, in a beautiful valley with an imposing mountain, the Illimani, which is the guardian of the city and at the same time marks its identity. “Among the residents of this city,…
Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton to Academy graduate
The goodness I have experienced here is a font of endless joy and energy for me. Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen For more than 22 years Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen SL has headed Loretto Academy in El Paso. She arrived to…
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Marian (formerly Sister Marian Joseph) McAvoy SL
Loretto Sister Marian (formerly Sister Marian Joseph) McAvoy died June 30 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky., in the company of many of the Community. Marian would have been 95 on July 15 and was in the 71st year…
Carrying seeds of love to Peru & Chile
In 1964, two years after Colegio Loretto opened in La Paz, Bolivia, a Loretto house opened in Tacna, a city in the Andean foothills of southern Peru. In these photos, Guadalupe “Lupe” Arciniega, who had taught at Colegio Loretto in…
Loretto Jubilarians: Faithful to the Gospel & Dedicated to Loving God’s People (Part 2)
How we spend our days is, after all, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard The Gospel text for Sunday, June 26, tells the story of the disciples of Jesus following him on his journey to Jerusalem. We hear the…
Spotlight Video: Eva Marie Salas SL and Lupe Arciniega SL
This year, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of Colegio Loretto in La Paz, Bolivia. Eva Marie Salas SL and Lupe Arciniega SL are still in touch with women whom they taught as children 50 years…