It took courage for Leilani Arellano to return to Mass, but she is glad to be back. Over the summer, Arellano had COVID-19 and she still cannot breathe quite right. The prospect of worshipping in a ...
The pandemic, for all its horrors, pulled Catholics into the digital age. Parishes scrambled to livestream Masses. Leaders such as Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland launched popular live talks from his home chapel. With aplomb, ...
Phil Westover is a man of standard size, rounded ears and deep voice. But he's a good part Christmas elf. Westover, a 70-year-old member of St. Peter Parish in Newberg, Oregon, spends joyful hours in his ...
Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. ...
Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland visited Southern Oregon Sept. 19-20 to meet some of the hundreds of people who lost homes earlier in the month to powerful wind-driven fires. In Sacred Heart Parish in Medford ...
As the national spotlight landed on his city and its ongoing protests, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample July 24 made a plea for citizens to leave violence behind and return to a campaign for racial ...
Declaring that racism is real and must be addressed, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample in remarks June 5 and 6 made impassioned pleas for justice, peace and unity. "We have a lot of healing to do ...
