Deacon turns down gift

NORTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island — Deacon Patrick Moynihan, president of the Haitian Project, has rejected a $100,000 donation from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying the businessman has yet to accept responsibility for his actions and denounce the abusive prostitution industry.
WATCH: Mercy march on Beaverton’s avenues

BEAVERTON — More than 300 Catholic faithful flowed alongside one of Beaverton’s main thoroughfares April 28 in a march celebrating divine mercy.
University of Portland runner finishes well at Boston

Scott Fauble, a 2015 graduate of the University of Portland and a distance runner, was the top U.S. finisher at this year’s Boston Marathon.
Help when your child is mentally fragile

Parents often struggle when dealing with a child suffering a mental health disorder. Coping with kids who display anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, or attention deficit disorder may result in considerable stress and frustration. Effectively supporting these children is frequently difficult.
Restaurant event to benefit Catholic ministry

EUGENE — Buying burgers at a Carl’s Jr. in Eugene May 16 will help people move out of poverty. The fast-food restaurant at 3032 Gateway St. will donate all its proceeds that day to the ministries of Catholic Community Services of Lane County.
They turned castoffs into gifts

After its 1869 founding at St. Mary Cathedral and decades of visiting the poor, Portland’s Society of St. Vincent de Paul began new ventures after 1926.
Mary’s Woods resident steps up for Notre Dame

LAKE OSWEGO — Leo Conkle, a resident of Mary’s Woods retirement community, is challenging his fellow residents and the wider community to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral in France.
Residents moving into new Mary’s Woods neighborhood

LAKE OSWEGO — It’s been 18 years since the Sisters of the Holy Names used dozens of acres of property south of Lake Oswego to build a village for seniors.
Since 1942, the Catholic Charities appeal has sought to fulfill the needs of the times

The annual collection for Catholic Charities of Oregon has its roots in the Second World War.

Begun just months after Pearl Harbor, the initial campaign took as its 1942 theme, “Charity Begins at Home.”
True to his teams: Archbishop Sample has retained loyalty to the sports franchises of his youth

Archbishops rarely get a Sunday off. But if he finds a chance, Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample will tune in to watch his beloved Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.

“I’m a die-hard fan,” he says. “You don’t lose it.”
WATCH: Mass under the skyscrapers

In the shadow of Portland skyscrapers, more than 700 worshippers gathered May 5 to celebrate the Eucharist. The annual Mariachi Mass at Waterfront Park temporarily turns a site of reveling into a spiritual powerhouse.
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women Conference focuses on saints

The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, marking 94 years since its founding in the Archdiocese of Portland, held its biannual conference at The Grotto in Northeast Portland on April 13. The theme was “Saints as Role Models.”
Priests urge Providence to stop appealing pro-union vote

A team of local priests is accompanying workers at Providence Portland Medical Center in asking hospital management to accept a vote in favor of unionization.
Fire safety on everyone’s mind after Notre Dame

After the world watched 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris catch fire April 15, Catholics began looking to their own older churches.
WATCH: Prison ministry conference challenges Catholics to help transform criminal justice system, souls

ST. BENEDICT — As a newly minted priest, the chrism oil practically still fresh on his hands, Archbishop Alexander Sample was assigned to prison ministry in Marquette, Michigan.

Each week he’d visit those incarcerated for crimes that included robbery, murder and rape — “the big ones,” the archbishop recalled during an April 13 gathering at Mount Angel Abbey.
Tea tradition a ‘great gem’ in archdiocese

“It’s like a big Catholic reunion,” observed former Mater Dei Radio host Dina Marie Hale, looking around a room dotted with fancy hats and floral prints, where clergy and religious mingled with the faithful over tiny sandwiches and intricately decorated cookies.
Advice on aging offered

A panel of experts on the challenges of aging offered advice April 4 during a breakfast and Catholic networking session sponsored by Mater Dei Radio.
Immigrant leaders being trained

HILLSBORO — Portland-area community organizers are attempting to harness the power of Catholic parishes. The goal is to prepare leaders from and for the region’s Hispanic immigrant community.
Bill would diminish death sentences

SALEM — An Oregon Senate panel is considering proposed legislation that would narrow the number of crimes that trigger the possibility of the death penalty.
Zero Waste Woman

The latest residents of Amanda Jewett’s modest Southeast Portland apartment are several hundred red worms who love to eat her garbage.
WATCH: 'We can only say yes'

ST. HELENS — A cool breeze blew off the lower Columbia River at sundown April 20 as Roberto and Nathan Navarro kindled the Easter fire at St. Frederic Church here.
Archbishop Sample's prayer opens statehouse session

SALEM — Rep. Jennifer Williamson, majority leader of the Oregon House of Representatives and a graduate of Valley Catholic High School, invited Archbishop Alexander Sample to lead the opening ceremony for the legislature April 2.
WATCH: Good Friday walk reflects on modern suffering

Many Christians apply the story of Good Friday to modern suffering and seek God’s help to create a better world. In downtown Beaverton, 150 people walked to sites for reflection and prayer, singing “Jesus Remember Me” and carrying a seven-foot-tall wooden cross along the path.
Holy Thursday foot washing a humbling experience

Around the Archdiocese of Portland at many parishes tonight — the start of the Triduum — one of the most tender, moving gestures in the life of Christ was reenacted.

Priests washed 12 individuals feet, calling to mind when Jesus did the same for his apostles in the upper room.
Walk for Life in Salem

SALEM — The St. Michael the Archangel and St. Germaine pregnancy support centers and Salem Right to Life benefit from the Walk for Life, set for Saturday, May 18, in Salem
Engagement announced

Sarah Ellen Kenney and Jeremy Michael Jarrett-Scott of Decatur, Georgia, will be married Sept. 28 at The Wimbish House in Atlanta.
Catholic connection now needed for CCHD grants

The Archdiocese of Portland will limit Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants to anti-poverty projects that have a demonstrable link with the Catholic Church.
New center geared for helping little Oregonians succeed

SALEM — Teachers know it best. The whole educational enterprise is hindered from the get-go because kindergartners lack academic, social and emotional preparation for school. Disruption in the classroom is becoming a crisis.
Jesuit grad dies after fall from Fordham University Bell tower

A former Jesuit student and Portland native died after falling from a bell tower at Fordham University in New York City early Sunday morning, April 14. Sydney Monfries was a senior at the Catholic college and weeks away from graduation.
Catholic Sentinel editor named to board

Ed Langlois, Catholic Sentinel managing editor, has been elected to serve on the board of the Catholic Press Association. The Chicago-based organization advocates for Catholic media and provides training for members. Langlois will represent publications and Catholic communicators in the western United States.
Oregon may help offset federal cuts to refugee support

To ensure their work continues, Catholic Charities of Oregon and other resettlement agencies and advocates for refugees are asking the state to help fill a funding gap created under the Trump administration.
Chicken Soup author trains nurses in self-care

SPRINGFIELD — A nurse’s life and calling is about caring for others. But in order to care for others, nurses first must take good care of themselves. LeAnn Thieman, author of 14 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and a veteran nurse of 30 years, is bringing her “SelfCare for HealthCare” program to the nurses at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.
Phil and Penny Knight give $75 million for Providence Heart Institute

Providence Heart Institute has received a $75 million gift from Phil and Penny Knight to support continued growth and innovation in cardiac services, including the development of a heart transplant program at Providence.
Northwest Catholic Counseling Center supports caregivers

On top of the physical demands that come with caring for a spouse or partner, many emotions such as fear, sadness, anxiety and anger can result in mental and spiritual exhaustion. Presenter Nancie Potter offers advice from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 13, at Northwest Catholic Counseling Center in Northeast Portland.
Catholic editor says two popes bookended her journey

Rocío Rios Niño, the longtime editor of El Centinela (the Catholic Sentinel’s sister publication), says her journey to the Catholic press in Oregon is really the story of two popes.
Oregon parishes safe from flooding so far

High water in the central and south Willamette Valley and environs has not yet affected Catholic churches in the area. As of mid-day April 8, property officials at the Archdiocese of Portland Pastoral Center had not heard reports of flooding or damage.
Seniors: Renewed grace and mission after 65

Father Charles Holden, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Shady Cove, loves seeing his mostly elderly parishioners delight in the playfulness of the children in the parish. “The seniors derive a lot of energy from seeing the youth and having them around,” he says.
Seeking the longest married

Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a marriage enrichment organization with Catholic foundations, is on the lookout for the nation’s longest-wed couple.

Deadline for nominations is midnight on Tuesday, May 14. Organizers welcome nominations at wwme.org, by email at bkberland@gmail.com, by mail to Bryan and Karen Berland, 530 Academy, Guthrie OK 73044, or by phone at 405-850-427
WATCH: The Roy steak and ham meal, in its 52nd year, exemplifies a steadfast community

ROY — How does a tiny parish in a rural hamlet sustain a school and carry off an annual dinner that serves more than a thousand hungry people?
Church coalition to honor leading death penalty foe

A Catholic death penalty abolitionist will be honored April 24 by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon.

Ron Steiner, a member of Queen of Peace Parish in Salem, has been the anchor man for Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty for 18 years.
Legal aid for immigrants a form of ‘divine gift’

For new immigrants, an affordable lawyer who speaks their language is a kind of “divine gift,” says the director of Immigration Legal Services for Catholic Charities of Oregon.
'There is a sacredness': Foot-care ministry in downtown Portland offers compassion, physical relief to the homeless

Rodger placed his backpack next to a chair, sat down and unlaced worn-out shoes.

“They told me there are going to be Epsom salts,” he said, slowly taking off his socks.
Record crowd attends Blanchet House brunch

More than 300 people gathered March 3 to support the work and mission of the Blanchet House of Hospitality.

Because of increased community interest, the fifth annual Lend a Helping Hand Brunch was moved out of the Blanchet House to the Multnomah Athletic Club ballroom. This change of venue allowed for 50 percent more attendees.
Oregon Department of Corrections director offers new vision for criminal justice

Prisons should be places where punishment is the absence of freedom and community, but where “everything else models life on the outside to every degree possible” and prisoners are treated with dignity, according to Colette Peters, director of the Oregon Department of Corrections and a lifelong Catholic. The faithful, she said, are “a key piece” in creating such a correctional system.
Cooperation between Catholics and Young Life advances

NEW YORK — “In the Gospel, the good news is revealed as a mystery of God’s closeness,” Brownsville, Texas, Bishop Daniel Flores wrote to participants at the Young Life Catholic Forum in New York in January.
Group, which includes Catholics, claims sex ed has gone too far

CANBY — A team of grandmas in Oregon is leading a charge to counter a state public school sex education program they think is beyond the pale.

“It desensitizes children about sex and promotes LGBT agendas,” said Colleen Hamilton-Cronley, a member of St. Patrick Parish here. “We need help to inform parents and grandparents about it. When we are informed we can work to influence the school boards and fight for our children.”
Former publisher John Limb honored

The retired head of Portland-based Oregon Catholic Press has been inducted into the Association of Catholic Publishers Hall of Fame.
Donors keen on ministry of bouncing back

Speakers uttered the word “resilience” 28 times March 16 during the annual Celebration of Hope dinner benefitting the work of Catholic Charities of Oregon. The theme was clear: if the church forms relationships with people having a hard time in life, that helps them bounce back from difficulties in a way that lasts.
Pastor removed after allegation surfaces

The pastor of St. Mary by the Sea Parish in Rockaway Beach has been removed by the Jesuits because of an allegation of sexual misconduct.
New Tillamook chapel blessed

TILLAMOOK — The clank of the censer and the smell of incense, a baby’s cry and the parents’ shushing filled the new chapel while Auxiliary Bishop Peter Smith blessed the bright space. Parishioners packed the pews and side aisles and streamed out the door for the occasion.
Two Salvadoran churchmen to discuss Romero

Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez and Bishop Elias Bolaños, both of El Salvador, will visit Portland later this month to discuss the legacy of their countryman, St. Oscar Romero.
La Salle Prep star rising at Oregon State University

CORVALLIS — As a freshman, Oregon State guard Aleah Goodmandidn’t get the kind of playing time she might have wanted. She was accustomed to leading a team, like she did for La Salle Prep in Milwaukie, guiding the Falcons to 5A state titles in 2015 and 2017. Three times during her high school career, Goodman was named Oregon 5A Player of the Year.
New support group for sexual abuse survivors

BEAVERTON — A support group for sexual abuse victims/survivors is beginning at Holy Trinity Parish here. Survivors from other parishes are invited to attend. The first meeting is Thursday, March 28, from 6:30-7:45 p.m. in the parish office conference room.
El Centinela’s Prengaman now leads AP’s West Region

NEW YORK — Peter Prengaman, former editor of El Centinela, has been appointed to lead The Associated Press’ West Region. Based in Phoenix, he will oversee journalists responsible for news in 13 Western states, including Oregon.
An ancient order: Portland’s great Irish past

From 1877 until the Great Depression, an Irish fraternal society was a mighty force in Oregon Catholicism. The Ancient Order of Hibernians met in smoky Portland halls, sang the glories of Irish home rule, tipped back a drink or two, debated some more, gave long eloquent speeches and took up collections for good causes. Members, whether lawyers or plumbers, regularly sent hard-earned dollars to Irish nationalist movements.
Home visits allow Vincentians to assess needs, form relationships

Volunteers from the St. Vincent de Paul conference at Resurrection Parish in Tualatin get thank- you cards from families who have received food, rent aid or utility help. The relationship is something more than helper vs. client.
Phil and Penny Knight give $75 million for Providence Heart Institute

Providence Heart Institute has received a $75 million gift from Phil and Penny Knight to support continued growth and innovation in cardiac services, including the development of a heart transplant program at Providence.
We like the stationery

Elaine and Jerry Owen, owners of Lady Hill Winery near St. Paul, have been going through family papers in their farmhouse, from which Jerry’s family has worked the land since the 1850s.
WATCH: At rites, Catholics-to-be learn about the path of the cross

About 750 Oregonians stood in churches last month to affirm their intention to become Catholic at Easter.