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All Loretto members are leaders. Every six years, six Loretto women religious and six Co-members are elected to serve the Community. Their generosity throughout the years has enhanced the life of Loretto and its mission. Learn more about our Loretto Leadership.

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Loretto Magazine – Winter 2025

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /

Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Loretto Leadership A letter from President Buffy Boesen SL As the newly-elected president of the Loretto Community, I invite you as you…

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Leading into the future – leadership transition ceremony

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /
Two older women with gray hair and a younger woman with black hair and glasses hold candles

On Sept. 15, the Loretto Community officially transitioned to newly-elected leadership in a ceremony held at the Motherhouse church. The ceremony’s significant moments included the welcoming of new leadership members…

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Meet Loretto members elected to serve on the Community Forum

By Christina Manweller / March 10, 2025 /

Jackie Diego-Medina CoL has been a Loretto co-member since 2007. She is a licensed clinical social worker living in Texas and has been an active volunteer serving migrants in the…

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Loretto Executive Committee 2024 – 2028: Serving Loretto and beyond

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /
an older gray haired woman in professional attire smiles

Mary E. (Buffy) Boesen SL was elected Loretto’s newest president this past summer, an honor and a role she has stepped into with enthusiasm. Buffy was received into the Loretto…

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Loretto Spotlight Video – Loretto Community Leadership

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /

What has been so important to me in Loretto is living in community where we support one another in how we live our concern about the marginalized, the vulnerable, where…

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Loretto joins with coalition in urging President Trump to sign Nuclear Ban Treaty

By Loretto Community / January 22, 2025 /

The Warheads to Windmills Coalition sent a letter to President Donald Trump Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, asking him to sign the…

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Loretto Magazine Fall 2024 issue now available!

By Loretto Community / September 30, 2024 /
Cover of the Fall 2024 Loretto Magazine "An event-full Loretto summer Inside ... Loretto holds Election Assembly 200 years at Loretto Motherhouse Celebrating Loretto's jubilarians Mary Luke Tobin Award honorees Visiting a tribal community in Pakistan"

Loretto Magazine’s fall edition is now available! As temperatures begin to cool and autumn nears, we offer you this latest issue of Loretto Magazine. Features include two significant Loretto events…

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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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Leading into the future

By Christina Manweller / September 18, 2024 /
A happy group of women smiling together at a Loretto Community gathering, all wearing a variety of different colors and patterns.

In July Loretto gathered to elect new leaders, hold discussions, pass proposals important to the Community and enjoy time together. As Community members gathered in Louisville, Ky., and on Zoom…

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Donna Mattingly SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

I grew up on a small farm in rural Central Kentucky near the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse. The area is also known as Kentucky’s Holy Land. Before I entered Loretto…

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Congratulations to all Loretto’s outgoing & newly elected Leadership!

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /
A happy group of women smiling together at a Loretto Community gathering, all wearing a variety of different colors and patterns.

The government of the Sisters of Loretto and the spirit of the Loretto Community is designed to foster the Community’s faith life and mission. Each member “has the responsibility to…

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Maribah Ishaq SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

My name is Maribah Ishaq from Pakistan. I have been with the Sisters of Loretto since March 2020. Before coming to the convent, I was a teacher and taught English,…

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