Oregon Archives

Guatemalan mother and son’s asylum is Catholic Charities’ success

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 4, 2019

There are immigration success stories with the help of Catholic Charities.

Portland, Oregon archdiocese settles 8 abuse cases for $4M

Associated Press, Church in the US
Aug 2, 2019

The Archdiocese in Portland, Oregon, will pay a total of nearly $4 million to eight individuals who alleged they were molested by a priest in the 1970s and 1980s on the Oregon coast, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Oregon parish mourns couple’s departure to avert deportation threat

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 17, 2019

A well-known Portland Catholic married couple has moved to Canada because attorneys could not find a clear path to resolve the pair’s immigration status.

People of faith seen as key to creating more humane correctional system

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Apr 2, 2019

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 the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Volunteers work to get damaged church ready for Christmas

Associated Press, Church in the US
Dec 25, 2018

Dozens of volunteers gathered Christmas Eve with hammers and two-by-fours to repair a Portland, Oregon, church that authorities say was extensively damaged when a man intentionally drove through the doors.

Jesuits sent abusive priests to retire on Gonzaga’s campus

Associated Press, Church in the US
Dec 17, 2018

For more than three decades, Cardinal Bea House on Gonzaga’s campus served as a retirement repository for at least 20 Jesuit priests accused of sexual misconduct that predominantly took place in small, isolated Alaska Native villages and on Indian reservations across the Northwest.