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Sister of Loretto

American  
[luh-ret-oh] / ləˈrɛt oʊ /

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

  1. a member of a congregation of sisters founded at Loretto, Kentucky, in 1812 and engaged in educational and missionary works.

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But in a sign that the welcome wasn’t all it could have been, the New Ways Ministry pilgrims were only identified on the Vatican’s list of attendees as a “group of lay people accompanied by a Sister of Loretto.”

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