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‘The heart and hands that reach them’: Portland parish outreach helps seniors secure vaccine

The experience left Sister Rosalie Anderson nearly in tears. “Every time I tried to schedule a COVID-19 vaccination appointment, it was like I met with a brick wall,” said the 79-year-old Holy Names sister.
Providence Heart Institute begins performing heart transplants

For Thomas Hatch, a heart transplant was the key to living a normal life again. Hatch, 63, is the first of five patients who have undergone the procedure at Providence St. Vincent since July. In addition, the West Pavilion at Providence St. Vincent in Southwest Portland, the hub of cardiac activity on the hospital campus, will be named for Phil and Penny Knight, in recognition of their $75 million gift to Providence Heart Institute.
Parishes should plan now how to welcome back parishioners to church

Even with many recent hopeful signs on vaccinations and the reduction in the number of COVID-19 cases, there is no date certain at which the coronavirus pandemic will be declared over. That should not stop parishes from planning now to welcome back parishioners to Mass in the future.
WATCH: ‘There was trauma to my soul’

“My child, my baby, was violently torn apart and removed from my womb,” Tina Fortin told about 100 abortion foes gathered outside Planned Parenthood here Feb. 20. “I had no strong feelings or emotions. I was numb. I was apathetic, just going along with society. It was easy.”
Who might be Cardinal Sarah's successor?

After Cardinal Robert Sarah's retirement as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, the big question around the Vatican is who will take his place. Informed sources say that Pope Francis would be looking at three possible options.
U.S. House passes Equality Act in a 224-206 vote

The House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in a 224-206 vote Feb. 25. A couple days ahead of the vote, the chairmen of five U.S. bishops' committees said its mandates will "discriminate against people of faith" by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women's sports, "and sex-specific facilities."
Prayer for Servants of the Church is a ministry of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. A day each month is set aside to pray for a priest — along with a deacon, woman religious, seminarian or brother — serving in the Archdiocese of Portland. Please remember them, and all who serve the church, in your daily prayers.
Witnesses say allegations about youth seminary were ignored

Witnesses at the fifth hearing in a trial for alleged abuse and cover-up at a Vatican youth seminary testified on Wednesday to an unhealthy culture of ridicule and abuse of power.
'We were here' – health care chaplains reflect on COVID-19 ministry

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation this past year, hospital chaplains – already accustomed to helping people cope with sickness and death – found their ministries took on added significance.
U.P. president to step down in June

After 10 years with the University of Portland, including the last seven as its 20th president, Holy Cross Father Mark Poorman is stepping away from the presidency June 30. The U.P. Board of Regents announced that Holy Cross Father James Lies (pronounced LEASE) will serve as interim president effective July 1.
Vatican foreign minister: religious freedom ‘being eroded’ by COVID-19 response

A robust understanding of the right to religious freedom is being eroded in the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Vatican’s foreign minister said in a video message to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday.
Priest plans to auction coveted baseball cards to aid low-income students

A baseball card collection worth thousands of dollars was a split second away from being dropped into a trash can and disappearing forever in a landfill.
At 40 Days for Life opening Mass, Archbishop Sample says abortion is part of growing ‘culture of death’

Abortion is the clearest sign of an intensifying culture of death, said Archbishop Alexander Sample at an opening Mass for the spring 40 Days for Life campaign Feb. 20.
Former Vatican ambassador in Baghdad looks ahead to pope's trip

When Cardinal Fernando Filoni served as the papal nuncio in Iraq in the early 2000s, he remained in Baghdad amid bombings and suicide attacks.
Winter storm halts nearly everything but Texas hospitality

The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt.
After adapting to record-low limits on refugee admissions, Catholic Charities now prepares to welcome more families

No matter how many times Matthew Westerbeck stands in the Portland International Airport and greets a refugee family, he always finds it an emotionally profound experience.
Archbishop urges fervent preparation during Lent

As Lent began, Archbishop Alexander Sample encouraged Catholics to enter the season fully through prayer, fasting and good works, all with the goal of growing closer to Christ.
Two lawmakers in trouble

Two Catholic state lawmakers are facing the condemnation of peers in Salem.
Question Corner: 'Return to dust'?/Inclusive language

Q — On Ash Wednesday we received ashes and were told, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” With Catholic teaching about an eventual resurrection after death, why are we told such a seemingly morbid and fatalistic thing?
Burma’s Catholic bishops call for peace and dialogue as two protesters killed

The Catholic bishops of Burma have called for a “return to dialogue” as two protesters were killed during demonstrations over the weekend.

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