Wearing a crucifix and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap, Oregon City farmer Don Widman stood in the front row of a July 21 rally supporting immigrants. Aim of the protest and fast by religious groups in Portland's park blocks was to...
It was 40 years ago outside Saigon when Chung Nguyen, 50, saw the horrifying results of a U.S. rocket. Nguyen’s uncle had managed to rush family members into a tunnel for shelter, but did not make it down himself and was...
FOREST GROVE — Thanks to a $35,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign from Human Development, a farmers market here is being guided to success by a committee of low-income sellers on their way up.
The Steubenville Northwest Catholic Youth Conference, set for July 30-Aug. 1, will take place at the Spokane Convention Center. Youths from all over the northwestern states and Canada are getting excited for the annual event.
FONDA, N.Y.— Under a rustic pavilion a popular hymn of gratitude for God's creation is being sung at the start of Sunday Mass. Nearby, smoke from burning sweet grass and sage hangs in the air as a powwow gets under way. Friday, July 23, 2010
“A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar ?” We’ve heard jokes begin that way over the years, but how many of us can identify someone as Catholic as opposed to Protestant or Jewish?
Abortion does kill unborn children of God. War, however, kills not only unborn babies, it also kills babies who have been born, their sisters and brothers, their mothers and fathers, their families and their communities. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Government aid to organizations that perform or promote abortion must stop — for the general good of our nation. No country that spreads abortion around the globe and within its own borders can escape the perils of such irreverent behavior. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Not long ago, I was informed by long distance telephone that a very dear friend of mine had just dropped dead. I was left numb with grief. Looking back on that experience, I find myself wishing that I could have read Mary Jo Tully’s new book, "The Path toward Resurrection," before that tragic event. It would have been a tremendous source of strength for me during those dark hours.
Though ostensibly set in a more-or-less contemporary suburb of Portland, Ore., the gentle, winning comedy "Ramona and Beezus" (Fox) occupies a nostalgia-tinted world so idyllic that you half expect one of the characters to announce, somewhere along the line, that a lovely family called the Cleavers just moved in next door. Friday, July 23, 2010
By the time viewers sit through the two flashbacks -- one set in the Middle Ages, the other a mere 10 years ago -- that are required to get "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Disney) rolling, they will likely have a sense that director Jon Turteltaub's generally inoffensive but routine fantasy adventure is on track to do more lumbering than levitating. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Every year on the final day of July the Jesuits, together with their many friends and admirers, celebrate the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the intrepid founder of this amazing group of men. Stories of taciturn and stern Jesuit teachers kept me away from registering at St. Ignatius High School in Chicago many years ago. But my eventual encounters with Jesuits ever since have changed all of that.
In June, after spending a week in Rome at the International Retreat for the closing of the Year of the Priest, I wanted to share a few reflections of this historic and moving event.
Today’s Gospel story begins with a tale we have heard before. What happens to a person’s estate when life is cut short? The question is posed by a man whose brother would not share his inheritance. By not answering the question, Jesus suggests that there is a more important question that should be addressed. “…one’s life does not consist of possessions,” he says. What is our life about? Is it about the accumulations of our lifetimes?
MILL CITY — The St. Catherine of Siena Mission centennial celebration officially began July 3 as seven Protestant pastors climbed narrow steps up a church tower to ring the bell 100 times. They were led by long-time St. Catherine of Siena bell ringer, Joe Yost, who has served in that role for more than 30 years. Friday, July 23, 2010
The Jesuit High School athletic program was recently ranked #1 in the nation for middle-sized schools and #3 in the nation overall by MaxPrep/CBS Sports.com, a website affiliated with Sports Illustrated. Monday, July 12, 2010
