A group of Catholic sisters and dozens of others gathered outside of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s downtown office Wednesday when news of his decision broke.
Under a conservation easement with the Bluegrass Land Conservancy, the land surrounding the Loretto Sisters' motherhouse farmland, forest, native grasses, lakes and creeks will be protected and preserved permanently.
Amid the intertwining crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, a 2-century-old Catholic convent outside Loretto, Ky. has signed a conservation easement to protect more than 650 acres of natural lands.
The movement for natural burial is growing and is slowly becoming more mainstream in the United States, but the practice is as old and widespread as our species.