CoLs
For more than 40 years, Loretto Co-members have enriched the life of Loretto. Their presence is reflected in relationships, service on committees, financial support and participating in the many missions of Loretto. Learn more about the Co-Members of Loretto.
Loretto Co-member Barbara Kinney died in her sleep Feb. 22 in a rehab center in Shawnee Mission, Kan. Barbara was an active Loretto co-member since 2014 and a supportive friend…
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75 years Katherine Ann Heinz SL Katherine Ann spent 36 years as a teacher, mostly in lower grades at schools in El Paso, St. Louis and Denver. She then worked…
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Community members and friends gathered this past September to celebrate Loretto’s 170th anniversary of working and serving in New Mexico. “Our Lady of Light,” the painting donated to the Museum…
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Loretto Co-member Maria Brann, in the company of good friends, died Feb. 13 at St. Anne’s Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in San Francisco. Maria was 97.…
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Published by U.S. Catholic on February 2, 2023 “I just wanted someone to listen,” said the shirtless man propped on pillows in a hospital bed, his voice cracking and eyes…
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Susan Classen CoL arrived at Cedars of Peace in 2003 and has been lovingly restoring the cabins and caring for the Cedars environment ever since. Her commitment to providing a…
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. American novelist Toni Morrison By…
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Loretto Co-member Josephine Ann “Jo Ann” (O’Connell) Purcell died peacefully Jan. 14 at The Ridge at Pinehurst in Denver in the company of family. She was 89 and in her…
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We send you Loretto’s wishes for a joyful, peaceful, healthy 2023. The Loretto Constitutions tell us, “As a community, we profess unshakeable reliance upon God and human reliance upon one…
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By now people who follow the news have probably heard of FTX and its wunderkind creator, Sam Bankman-Fried. Very simply put, Bankman-Fried created a form of cryptocurrency and encouraged a lot…
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God steps out into the cosmos and tells us a story. Once it was all darkness, except for a tiny light, almost invisible yet weighty as its Creator. No water…
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Published on Denver 7, December 20, 2022 Loretto co-member Mary Helen Sandoval was featured in a news report broadcast December 20, 2022, on Denver 7, the ABC-affiliated TV station in…
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