Laudato Si’ at 10: Speaker asks Catholics to consider their ‘place on the planet’
byAn event marking the 10th anniversary of the late Pope Francis’ encyclical on creation asked participants to make positive changes by thinking of themselves…
Sisters of Loretto
Black Catholics, alumni of old St. Monica, recall their school days
byAt least seven decades after they graduated from the old St. Monica School, in Lebanon, Ky., alumni believe the Sisters of Loretto’s strict discipline…
Sisters of Loretto celebrate 200 years
byThe Sisters of Loretto will host “Seeking Home,” an evening journey from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 27. The event will commemorate the…
Women religious call for action in wake of shooting
byReligious women from four communities released a statement April 12 on the Old National Bank mass shooting saying that though they draw strength and…
Sisters of Loretto sign historic conservation agreement
byThe Sisters of Loretto in Nerinx, Ky., signed an agreement Jan. 18 with the Bluegrass Land Conservancy that will conserve more than 650 acres…
Four religious congregations
join newly launched
‘Laudato Si´Action Platform’
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Earlier this year, Pope Francis called all Catholics to join a new global grassroots movement committed to caring for creation and creating a more…
Loretto Motherhouse Church
to host ‘I Was Here’ Project
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The Sisters of Loretto have invited the “I Was Here” Project to bring a ritual of remembrance and sanctification to the Loretto Motherhouse Church…
Sisters’ work during 1918 Spanish flu seen as model for crisis today
byBALTIMORE — Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States…
Loretto Sisters elect new leaders, who will take office on Jan. 1
byRecord Staff Report The Sisters of Loretto elected Sister Barbara Nicholas as their new president at the congregation’s weeklong delegate assembly earlier this month…
Sister Margaret Ann Hummel dies at Loretto Motherhouse
bySister of Loretto Margaret Ann Hummel died July 26 at the Loretto Motherhouse. She was 82 and in her 29th year as a Sister…