by Karen Moloney | May 2, 2018 | News, News & Media
Khana Kockedhie Magel, a 16-year-old student at the Loreto Girls’ Secondary School in Rumbek, has been named winner of this year’s UN Missions essay-writing competition for secondary school students in South Sudan. As a young woman in a country that has been torn...
by Karen Moloney | Apr 30, 2018 | News, News & Media
Early this April, the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei swapped their times tables for dancing and textbooks for cake as they celebrated their 10th anniversary in style! The week-long celebration included a host of activities and events, alongside special meals with the...
by Karen Moloney | Apr 23, 2018 | News, News & Media
“Sister India” recounts the story of Sr Loreto Houlihan, a 91-year-old Irish missionary, who has spent 70 years teaching in India. A new documentary by Irish filmmaker Myles O’Reilly, which is currently being screened at a number of film...
by Karen Moloney | Apr 16, 2018 | News, News & Media
Who is Sr Loreto Houlihan? Born into a large family in 1927, Peg Houlihan grew up in hard times, especially in the 1930s with a worldwide depression and an economic war between Ireland and Britain. By the time she was five years old, her mother was already a widow as...
by Karen Moloney | Apr 5, 2018 | Events, News, News & Media
What is the World Meeting of Families (WMOF)? The World Meeting of Families started in 1994, when Pope St John Paul II asked the Pontifical Council for the Family (now part of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life) to establish an international event of prayer,...
by Karen Moloney | Apr 5, 2018 | News, News & Media
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are very sad to announce the passing of Fr Mark McDonald, our former Superior General. Fr Mark McDonald passed away on April 2, 2018 at the Sacred Heart Villa in Center Valley, Pennsylvania at age 75. Father McDonald was...