A New Kind of Family
The Loreto Girls Secondary School (LGSS) in Rumbek, South Sudan has a tradition of ‘school families’ which provide the girls with role models who have previously completed the rigorous LGSS program…
A Celebration of Service
Leadership is a gift of service. In religious life it is a complex task of caring, organising, encouraging, challenging and finding the path by walking the particular stretch of road that comes up while you are in that role…
South Sudan Famine: Loreto Calls for Action
A senior United Nations official has warned that 20 million people are starving to death in the worst famine since World War II…
Pope Francis Gives the ‘Thumbs Up’!
As the Loreto Sisters in Rome wrote – these photos say it all! We had tickets to a general papal audience which allowed us to be right up against the barrier in St Peter’s Square…
Loreto Albania: Tackling Human Trafficking
Mary Ward Loreto Foundation in Albania is planting hope with a human rights approach to combating modern day slavery. The aim is to eradicate poverty, the prime cause for human trafficking…
Loreto College Success
It is with great pleasure that I share with you the magnificent achievements by two of our Year 11 Loreto Students: Charlotte Matthias, Loreto College Marryatville and Lucinda Hogan, Loreto College Kirribilli…
Love thy Neighbour
Sitting on a flight leaving Dili in Timor-Leste I am overcome with multiple waves of sheer emotional exhaustion. As I silently shed a few tears looking out the window – I know it’s time to put pen to paper. I have been shaken out of the comforts of my easy existence in Australia after spending just one week in a country which is only a one hour journey from Darwin…
Opening doors of hope
The year is 1841, the date, August 23. On the pier in Kingstown, Ireland stands a group of Loreto nuns waving off seven young women in their 20s, dressed in the habit of the Loreto Sisters and accompanied by five postulants. These 11 are embarking on a journey destined for Calcutta, India…
Mary Ward Justice Lecture 2016 Sydney
Please click here to view details of the Mary Ward Justice Lecture 2016 held at Loreto Normanhurst, Sydney on Wednesday October 26, 2016.
St Omer Reflection Days
Loreto schools in Australia are places of inspiration, creativity and exceptional education. They are filled with educators and staff who possess a passion to be a witness to their faith and wish to frame their faith…