Diocesan social action directors take time to focus on ‘Laudato Si’’
Ed Langlois Catholic News Service Eco Catholic Francis: The Environment Encyclical Portland, Ore. Believers cannot sit out the effort to restore creation after years of abuse, a speaker told diocesan...
View ArticlePope’s encyclical cited as totem pole blessed on way to coal mines
Ed Langlois Catholic News Service Eco Catholic Francis: The Environment Encyclical Portland, Ore. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales got a roar of approval Monday when he told a packed Catholic church that...
View ArticlePortland Archdiocese to stay in conversation with school on job offers
Ed Langlois Catholic News Service Portland, Ore. The Archdiocese of Portland plans to stay in talks with an all-girls school that now says it will welcome employees who enter same-sex unions...
View Article'Unite suffering' with those grieving, archbishop tells Oregon Catholics
Ed Langlois Catholic News Service Portland, Ore. St. Joseph Parish in Roseburg hosted an emotional Mass the evening of Oct. 1 for 10 people who died in a shooting that morning at Umpqua Community...
View ArticlePortland archbishop points to 'troublesome' misuses of 'Amoris Laetitia'
Ed Langlois Catholic News Service Portland, Ore. The media in particular have drawn false conclusions from the pope's apostolic exhortation on the family, Archbishop Alexander Sample wrote in a pastor...
View ArticleOregon Catholic father of four killed trying to protect fellow passengers
by Ed Langlois by Catholic News Service Portland, Ore. Two men were killed May 26 while they were defending two women from an attacker. Rick Best, a 53-year-old member of Christ the King Parish in...
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Archbishop Sample 'shaken to core,' calls for lay-run abuse investigation
Portland, Ore. 20180821T1434-19580-CNS-ABUSE-REACTION-SAMPLE.jpg Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Ore., pictured in a 2017 photo, issued a letter Aug. 20 on clergy sex abuse. He called for a...
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Oregon church activities curtailed by smoke from wildfires
Portland, Ore. 20180829T1130-19789-CNS-OREGON-CHURCHES-SMOKE.jpg A satellite image shows the wildfire Aug. 6 at the Mendocino Complex in California. The wildfires in California are contributing to...
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Catholic deaf group re-energized with Masses, social media, youth
Portland, Ore. This article appears in the The Field Hospital feature series. View the full series. 20181017T1141-21463-CNS-PORTLAND-DEAF-COMMUNITY.jpg Sandra Kindblade and Anita Jazowick sign the...
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Older Catholics reflect on pandemic's effect on faith life, how they cope
Portland, Ore. This article appears in the Coronavirus feature series. View the full series. 20200326T1348-256-CNS-SENIORS-MISSING-EUCHARIST.jpg B.J. Buxton tends the garden at her Medford, Ore., home...
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