VOCAL'S Hill to Die On. Some Things Never Change.

Do things never change? Why not a balanced voice for justice, peace and life in Christ Jesus.  His Holy Name truly changes things. Now for the rant. 

Pro-abortion and pro-homosexual "marriage" is promoted by the Office of "Life", Justice and Peace by its allegiance to Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon churches in monthly newsletters.    It's interesting how the Matt Cato has turned the Office of "Life", Justice and Peace into a political forum that in the first place, probably isn't in his job description and in the second place leaves out important life issues and but not compatible with his friends of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon bent.   In the news for Oregon is the using aborted babies for heat. Click on http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/18144-oregon-county-abruptly-halts-incineration-of-aborted-babies He needs to be more aware of things like this.     1. Saturday May 10: Mother's Day Vigil at the Northwest Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington.Oregonians don't have to go to Washington to expose the assault on life when it is in our own backyard.  But, this is not compatible with the pro-abortion mentality of most the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon churches. Allied OrganizationsAmerican Friends Service Committee Portland officeWitness for Peace NorthwestPortland Jobs with JusticeVOZ Worker’s Rights Education ProjectCAUSAEcumenical Ministries of OregonPortland Central American Solidarity CommitteeOregon Coalition to Stop Wage TheftNorthwest Workers’ Justice ProjectThe Rural Organizing ProjectAmerican Civil Liberties UnionEnlace     2.  Sunday May 18th: What the Church Says About Care for Creation. Presented by Valerie Chapman, Climate Ambassador for the Catholic Climate Covenant. Great article from Orate Frates shows Valerie Chapman's ideals. This article is two years old, but nothing has changed. His blog is great.  http://fratres.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/the-archdiocese-of-occupy-portland-part-1/ Valerie Chapman's St. Francis Parish is gay-friendly.  Any parish in Oregon welcomes everyone.  St. Francis is listed in http://www.newwaysministry.org/gfp.html St. Francis also marched in the Gay Pride Parade ignoring Archbishop Sample's request not to march.  Why then is this woman allowed to "teach" about another political issue climate change?   3. FROM THE OFFICE: MUSIC TO MY EARS  Another political focus that should be left to our Oregon Catholic Conference. Also really personal opinions that are not edited like, "Sometimes this is by default - centuries of unjust cultural norms (think slavery) and sometimes it's by design - laws that limit the participation of the average worker in favor of the owners of production. Matt Cato has his own forum.  But he does not speak for all Oregon Catholics. His superior attitude is unnerving. 4. SAINTS ALIVE! MAY 1: ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER   Some of the tone in this article -  "A little more than a decade later, society began to ebb away at labor's dignity. The waves of antipathy have yet to abate and roll back out to the waters of justice."  5. A SCRIPTURAL REFLECTION: RECOGNIZING CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST This is a personal story that is hard to follow.  Again a platform is given to one who feels free to run with total abandon in many areas outside of his office,        Archdiocese of Portland  Office of Life, Justice and Peace   May 2014 JustPeace             PazJusta In This Issue Mother's Day Vigil Church on Care for Creation From the Office: Music to My Ears St. Joseph the Worker A Scripture Reflection: Recognizing Christ in the Eucharist Quick Links What's New! Home Page Act Now Resources The Mission of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace: To inspire and form Catholic disciples to build God's kingdom of justice and faithfully witness His love. Empowered by the many gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ground ourselves in Catholic social teaching. AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE Saturday May 10: Mother's Day Vigil at the Northwest Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. Meet at 8:45 a.m. at Ascension Catholic Church, 7507 SE Yamhill St, Portland.  Return by 5:00 p.m  Click here for flyer     Why You Want to Attend: Regardless of their legal status, migrants, like all persons, possess inherent human dignity which should be respected. Government policies that respect the basic human rights of the undocumented are necessary. U.S. Catholic Bishops, Strangers No Longer Together On The Journey Of Hope AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE Sunday May 18th: What the Church Says About Care for Creation. Presented by Valerie Chapman, Climate Ambassador for the Catholic Climate Covenant. 1:00 p.m. at 21060 SW Stafford Road, Resurrection Church, Tualatin. 12:00 p.m.: Display tables from local environmental groups. Fair trade coffee will be served. There will be events for children. Why You Want To Attend: "The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work."Pope Francis  FROM THE OFFICE: MUSIC TO MY EARS We live in a massive, complex society where its systems and structures have a louder voice than its citizens. The average person barely makes a difference. Even a collective mass of average persons - we call that "democracy" - is hopelessly outmatched by the structures of power that have gathered momentum for centuries. Sometimes this is by default - centuries of unjust cultural norms (think slavery) and sometimes it's by design - laws that limit the participation of the average worker in favor of the owners of production.   Read more SAINTS ALIVE! MAY 1: ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER   The feast of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to give all workers a model and a protector. Pope Pius XII expressed the hope that this feast would emphasize the dignity of labor. A little more than a decade later, society began to ebb away at labor's dignity. The waves of antipathy have yet to abate and roll back out to the waters of justice. Read more A SCRIPTURAL REFLECTION: RECOGNIZING CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST May 4 2014 (Acts 2: 14, 22-33, 1 PT 1:17-21, Lk 24:13-35) I visited my father last week. He asked me what the weather was like in Texas (he thought I lived in Texas). I said, "Well, I live in Oregon." He paused and said, "Matt Cato lives in Portland, Oregon; do you know him?" My father did not recognize me but he was drawn to me in the intimacy of the meal. The disciples' hearts were burning while Jesus opened the Scriptures to them, but they failed to recognize him until their meal.   Read more Matt Cato Director of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace Campaign for Human Development Archdiocese of Portland 503.233.8361 mcato@archdpdx.org

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'A new way to love' : Be there Tuesday, April 29th at 2 p.m.

We are so happy to have Auxiliary Bishop Peter Smith.  God Bless you and we will pray for you. aux·il·ia·ry noun late Middle English: from Latin auxiliarius, from auxilium ‘help.’  +++++++++++++++++++++++   New auxiliary bishop misses parish life, but sees administration as a way to serve and love

Catholic Sentinel photo by Bob Kerns Bishop Peter Smith distributes Communion during student Mass at St. Mary Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Catholic Sentinel photo by Ed Langlois Sister Emiliana Moshi gets a laugh from Bishop Smith's commentary. + view more photos Archbishop Alexander Sample and Bishop Peter Smith meet at pastoral center. Ordination to the Episcopate Auxiliary Bishop Peter Smith 2 p.m., April 29 St. Mary Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Ed Langlois Of the Catholic Sentinel "Ministry, wherever it is, is about being the presence of Christ for others." — Auxiliary Bishop Peter Smith On chilly Sundays at St. Rose Parish in Portland, when the old boiler quit putting out heat, Father Peter Smith would walk to the basement in vestments. He'd get the heat going, then dash back up to church, wiping grease from his hands before the opening song began. He loved it. Parish life fired him up, especially being among the people. Now that Pope Francis has named him auxiliary bishop of Portland, Bishop Smith longs a bit for parish life. He has not been a parish priest since last June, when Archbishop Alexander Sample asked him to begin serving as vicar general of the archdiocese, essentially a chief of staff for the archbishop. "I do miss the pastoral connections with the parishioners," Bishop Smith says, admitting that he substitutes at parishes whenever possible and will continue to do so. But Bishop Smith — with degrees in business, civil law, theology and church law — knows his new official duties are also service to the People of God. Administration, he points out, is one of the spiritual gifts listed in St. Paul's epistles. "Ministry, wherever it is, is about being the presence of Christ for others, as I see it," Bishop Smith says. "It is loving, serving, guiding and caring for people entrusted to your care as Jesus would." His ministry is still rich in its opportunity for teaching. A natural catechist, Bishop Smith instructs in canon law at Mount Angel Seminary and speaks from the heart, explaining that church law is intended to help people lovingly toward salvation. At St. Rose, when it was time to introduce the New Roman Missal, he gave homilies on liturgy for eight weeks running. With blue eyes and sensible black shoes, the bishop is an early riser. One of the first things he does each day is gather for prayer with the members of his community — the Brotherhood of the People of Praise. Part of a larger mostly-lay ecumenical charismatic group, it's a Catholic association of the faithful, an early phase of the Vatican's gradual recognition for a Religious community. He will continue to live in the Brotherhood's North Portland house. "Prayer together lets you carry one another's burdens," he says. The other members of his house are Father Chuck Wood, parochial vicar of Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Lake Oswego; Father David Shaw, on staff at Central Catholic High School; and Glenn Rymsza, a lay brother and pastoral associate at St. Anthony Parish in Southeast Portland. The men of the Brotherhood who are ordained are priests of the Archdiocese of Portland. Time for personal prayer is scarce for a parish priest, much less a bishop. But praying is absolutely vital, Bishop Smith says. "Without prayer, this wouldn't go very far," he explains. Even if he doesn't have something like an hour per day to spend quietly, he grabs moments all the time, sometimes on the commute to the office in his small Ford SUV. "I try to have an attitude of mind in which one turns frequently to the Lord as a friend every few minutes," he says. He aims to keep an ongoing relationship with the Almighty, instead of turning to God only when there is a crisis.  After he was named an auxiliary bishop, he had to get used to the Catholic paparazzi. Photographers and reporters have been tailing him. "If this is being inflicted on me, you should share the burden," he tells weekday Mass worshipers at St. Rose Parish, where he was pastor just months ago and where he has been filling in this spring. The congregation laughs as they make room for another photographer. This newly-named shepherd of the church is not impressed by his current fame. "I am nobody's savior," he says. "Jesus Christ is their Savior. This is not about me. It's about loving and guiding them as Christ would have me." As usual at weekday Masses, on this morning, Bishop Smith asks worshipers questions to kick off his homily. That gets people thinking, he says of the habit, which he developed at Masses for school children. "It's a way of helping people grow in the richness of our Catholic faith," he explains, noting that people at St. Rose began doing research ahead of time so they could answer his queries. On this day, he asks what makes a marriage and later explains the history of the sacrament, touching on Jewish law and canon law, which he always makes fascinating, parishioners report. "Our faith is dependent on us saying 'yes' day in and day out," he tells the group, explaining that when we say "no," we have wandered into sin. As Mass closes, he calls on the congregation: "Go and announce the Gospel of Christ." "Attending daily Mass with Father Peter is like a history lesson," says Phill Colombo, a longtime St. Rose parishioner and a reporter for the Hollywood Star newspaper. "You get a tremendous sense of the scripture from him," adds Dick Cheek, a longtime member of St. Rose. "He's a tremendous educator through his homilies." The flourishing of St. Rose daily Mass came about during Bishop Smith's tenure. Scores of people now fill the chapel, even spilling into the hallway. During prayers of the faithful, parishioners speak genuinely. They remember a friend who has decided to stop cancer treatment, a son unable to get a job, and unborn children in danger of being aborted. After Mass on this day, St. Rose parishioners have arranged a party for their famous former pastor, with home-baked treats and a poster with the priest's face glued onto a figure with a miter, the tall hat of a bishop. Bishop Smith still attends a men's discussion group at St. Rose, along with the current administrator, Father Matt Libra, and another former pastor, Msgr. Richard Huneger. The group, mostly laymen, picks a topic and one of the lay members gives a presentation to get the discussion going. Parishioners who know the new bishop call him a prayerful man. He stops to pray with people after Mass, especially those who are ill. As parish priest at St. Rose, he would lead others in the congregation to join the prayer circle, laying hands on people in need. "He would tell us, 'To the degree that we live with each other we are in relationship with Christ,'" says Colombo. Bishop Smith and Ray Johnson had a friendship founded on saints. Johnson, a member of St. Rose since the 1950s, had an encyclopedic mind when it came to lives of the saints. The priest and the layman discussed holy people regularly. Sometimes at daily Mass, Bishop Smith would ask the congregation what they know about the saint of the day, first telling Johnson that he would need to wait 30 seconds to give the others a head start. Johnson became ill and Bishop Smith visited often until his death. The two were kindred spirits, especially in faith and worldview. Peggy Johnson, Ray's widow now and a longtime teacher at the parish school, says her husband always thought of the parish priest as a son. Ray died in 2012, only a month after Bishop Smith lost his own father. The priest was a great support to Peggy in her grief. "He was able to get me through some rough spots," she says. Eventually, she decided she wanted to donate something to the parish that meant so much to Ray. She and Bishop Smith settled on buying a crucifix for the daily Mass chapel where he and the priest had so enjoyed each other. The Italian-made now cross hangs behind the altar, dedicated to Ray. Dianna Cooper, administrative assistant at St. Rose Parish, says Bishop Smith has a way with children and families. They tend to love him and his sense of humor. When he was pastor of St. Rose, a post that includes Archbishop Howard School, he would go out at the end of each day to greet families and bid children farewell. "Kids would just run up to him," says Cooper. Despite a packed schedule on this day, Bishop Smith decides to visit the school, where he has many good memories. He is welcomed as a hero. Someone has coached the children. "Hi, your excellency!" one says. Another boy kneels and makes a motion of kissing the episcopal ring. The bishop laughs and shrugs. "Dial it down, folks," he says quietly. "I'm a low-key guy." In the fourth grade classroom, he greets students who are all smiles, raised hands and questions. The conversation ranges from fractions to squids. He walks in on a birthday party among second graders who are eating doughnuts. They wonder about his pectoral cross and ask him to guess where they are going for spring break. As he leaves, he requests that the children behave for their teacher the rest of the day. At the parish, he wears a sweatshirt over his clerical shirt. Back at the pastoral center offices, he digs out his black blazer, aware of his formal role. As vicar general, he oversees staff at the pastoral center and has special charge of Catholic cemeteries and the church's mission to uphold faith and morals in public life. On this day, the employees of the pastoral center are his flock as he celebrates the weekly Wednesday Mass in the small chapel. He preaches a homily about Mary and Joseph, who kept assenting to God's plans. He relates that to the workers' ministry. "If we stop saying yes, things are not going to work out," he says. "There will be days when we will want to say no." Bishop Smith says he was just getting up to speed on the duties of a vicar general when he received the call to become a bishop. He is under no illusions. He admits that, when a church leader is learning his role, he can make some mistakes. He's confident God will see him through.

Oregon's Very Own Auschwitz: Right on the I - 5 Corridor

We see it and think it's ecological when it's really diabolical. It's just a modern one of these.

Canadian aborted babies incinerated in Oregon waste-to-energy facility to provide electricity

by Peter Baklinski  Life Site News

Wed Apr 23, 2014 13:06 EST

The Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility in Oregon that incinerates British Columbia "medical   waste," including aborted babies.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 23, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.
The province’s Health Ministry said in an email to the B.C. Catholic that “biomedical waste” shipped to the U.S. to be incinerated includes “human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue.”

“The ministry understands that some is transferred to Oregon. There it is incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant,” the email stated.

The ministry said that contractors handling the province’s “biomedical waste” follow “health and safety protocols, as well as federal, provincial, and local regulations.”

Kristan Mitchell, executive director of the Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association, told the B.C. Catholic that the “biomedical waste” likely ends up at the Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility in Oregon since it is the only facility that uses waste to power the grid. The facility confirmed that it still receives and incinerates B.C. medical waste.

The power facility, located in Brookes just off the I-5, burns waste in two massive boilers at a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat transfers into water tubes, which creates steam to drive turbines. The turbines generate electricity.

A 2007 article about the Marion waste-to-energy facility that appeared in the Willamette Live — ironically titled “Burn, Baby, Burn” — stated that at the time the incinerator burned about 800 tons (1,764,000 pounds) of medical waste per year.

“Medical waste is brought to the facility in sealed boxes and is carried to the furnace on a conveyor belt which layers it with the rest of the solid waste being processed,” the article states.

Locals at the time protested the “importation and burning of medical waste,” expressing concern about breathing “toxic emissions.”

The news comes one month after the remains of more than 15,000 aborted babies were found to have been incinerated, along with other “medical waste,” to heat and generate power for British hospitals.

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Guest Post: "Planned Parenthood Gearing up for Political Battle."

Here is something from an Oregon Catholic who attended the Planned Parenthood Forum with other concerned Catholics.  This is what she observed and since it is an mid-election year we are thankful for her insights.

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Copied directly from the Democratic Party of Washington County Website:

Planned Parenthood Engagement Forum
Washington County
Tuesday, March 18th at 6 pm
Beaverton Library, 12375 SW 5th St
 

Isn’t it interesting that the Democratic Party of Washington County is advertising a meeting for a "non-political, non-profit health care provider"?? I thought non-profit status was contingent upon being non-partisan.

I attended this meeting. It was my first direct contact with people who support and work for Planned Parenthood other than the former Planned Parenthood Director, Abbey Johnson, who I met at a pro-life conference after her conversion. And of course I have had contact those abortion supporters who shout profanities and nasty comments at us when we pray in front a Planned Parenthood abortion mill; given their hostile reaction to our peaceful vigil, I assume they too are supporters of the largest abortion provider in the country.

I got the sense that Planned Parenthood of Oregon is starting to get nervous, even in "the state with the most liberal abortion laws in the country", as stated by Hannah Love, who led the meeting.

She was noticeably decades younger than her audience, whose average age was probably closer to 50. Since this was a "public meeting" in a tax funded facility, there were almost as many opponents as supporters.

However, the only people allowed to speak in this meeting were Hannah and anyone who supported the Planned Parenthood cause. Those of us who wanted to refute any of the "facts" being shared by Hannah were vehemently cut off before we could utter a word. I know, because I tried to refute what she was saying with the truth three times and she talked right over me.

Also, those who wore symbols indicating their beliefs, such as crosses, were locked out of the room at the moment the meeting started. Since it was a "public meeting" in a tax funded facility, I thought those tactics were illegal but apparently not. I had to get up from the back of the room to open the door for our 80 year old faithful prayer warrior, Marie.

The purpose of the meeting was to tout all of PP’s accomplishments over the past year and to recruit volunteers to canvas neighborhoods sharing all the wonderful work the PP is doing. Hannah plugged the "TOP" program as working to help reduce teen pregnancy. (VOCAL This is the Planned Parenthood program that Bill Diss is having all those troubles over.)

I don’t understand how a program that promotes early age promiscuity and birth control to children as young as 8 to 10 years old (at least that is the approximate age of the young boys in their videos to whom an older gentlemen is teaching the "art" of masturbation) could help reduce pregnancy among an age group that can’t remember to turn off a light switch or bring their homework home let alone to take a pill at the same time every day.

We have had 40 years of this same talk by Planned Parenthood. Hasn’t history proven their theories wrong yet? They have said that birth control and sex education would reduce teen pregnancy since before abortion was legalized in 1973. So how much longer are we going to let them say this with no data to prove that what they are saying is true?

Planned Parenthood also still insists that only 3 percent of their "business" (the term used by Hannah, however I thought non-profits were not a business but a service) is abortion. This "fact" has been proven false by reporter after reporter and prolife group after prolife group but they still use it on their supporters because, frankly, Planned Parenthood doesn’t care how many lies they use as long as those lies keep them in business.

The way they "justify" this fact is by using each encounter with a customer as a "service", even if the same customer comes in for the same service every single month, or receives multiple items during a single visit.

So each pack of condoms or birth control pills sold is counted as service. They also provide these at huge discounts well below what pharmacies charge to anyone who wants them whether they could afford to go to a pharmacy or not and whether or not they have insurance.

So the idea that Obamacare had to provide these services as part of the insurance plan was ridiculous since the government already provides birth control for next to nothing to anyone who wants it through the nearly $350 million they give to Planned Parenthood every single year.

If you read former Planned Parenthood Executive Abbey Johson’s book, Unplanned, Planned Parenthood’s reason for providing nearly free birth control has nothing to do with reducing the number of abortions as they say.

They are well aware that this ensures that customers keep coming to them despite alternative sources and keeps this false statistic in place for them year after year. Plus when the birth control inevitably fails, as it does so often among teen users, the first place they turn for help is to the agency who provided them with it in the first place. Free or low cost birth control maintains a future stream of abortion customers as well. And they achieve all of this deception with our hard earned tax dollars.

Deceptive tactics are nothing new to Planned Parenthood. Bernard Nathanson, a former Planned Parenthood advocate who was one of those chiefly responsible for getting abortion legalized by the Supreme Court in 1973, said that they had laughingly made up the "3 million back alley abortions" statistic while ascending the Supreme Court stairs in 1973. Mr. Nathanson is now a proud and ferocious pro-life advocate working hard to expose Planned Parenthood’s deceptions and reverse the very law he helped to pass over 40 years ago.

Much to Planned Parenthood’s dismay, abortions are declining, even here in "liberal" Oregon. Planned Parenthood claims this trend is due to its TOP education, only recently initiated. However, pro-lifers know that 40 years of education, prayer and advocacy combined with compassionate and selfless assistance to women in unplanned pregnancies is the real reason behind this trend.

Young people are more pro-life than ever before and they are starting to stand up and speak out for the 25 percent missing from their generation who were aborted. They realize that they are lucky to be here given that so many are not.

As a counter-measure to the growing pro-life culture, Planned Parenthood now hosts a "Teen Sexuality Conference" in Seaside every year to help promote teen sex and to give their future supporters and adults who get off being taught about pornographic material by the young. The materials at this conference would normally not be legal to sell to children under age 18, but at this conference it is displayed prominently in full view by all in attendance.

In my opinion, this conference is the most vivid real life example of the blind leading the blind that one could ever witness, based on an article I read by an attendee at last year’s event. Personally I would not be caught dead in such a place, so I had to rely on another’s account. (VOCAL Oregon Catholics lead by Jim Welsh on the coast had a silent protest April 7 and 8th the dates of this taxpayer funded event.)

Even in this time of darkness, we all know that there is one wonderful promise made by Our Lord about the blind leading the blind. At some point both fall into a pit. If nothing else, we pro-lifers will continue to welcome our children as the blessings that they are and abortion advocates will tragically continue to eliminate theirs as the inconveniences and burdens that they believe them to be and the political tide will shift on the sheer madness of their own wishes.

I’d like to believe though, that all those hours we pro-lifers spend standing in the rain with our rosaries and signs may have just a little bit to do with returning our nation to one nation under God, where we all have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Who Is Respresenting You in the Archdiocese of Portland?

The Pastoral Council has the ear of Archbishop Sample, yet many don't know who is speaking up for them or what is going on period.  Let your voice be heard.  If you have been part of a group in your Region that was worthwhile please let us know. 

Do you know who's representing you?  We need to speak up and help the Archbishop through our regional members and find out the "chain of command" to keep things real.
http://www.archdpdx.org/pastoral-council/

Archdiocese of Portland Pastoral Council 2013 - 2015
 Ex Officio Members:

Archbishop:	Most Rev. Alexander K. Sample
Vicar General:	Bishop-elect  Peter Smith

Elected and Appointed Members:

Regional Representatives:

 

Ms. Terri Keefer	Albany-Corvallis/Santiam
Mr. Frederick Schulz	Beaverton Suburban
Mr. Peter Bosserman	Columbia County/North Coast
Mr. Jonathan French	Downtown Portland/Southeast Portland
Mr. Henry Gyanti	East Ptld. Suburban/South Ptld. Suburban
Mr. Michael Whitney	Metropolitan Eugene
Ms. Stephanie Thompson	Metropolitan Salem
Mr. Frank Rego	Northeast Portland
Ms. Dawn Crow	South Coast
Mr. Timothy Kirsch	Southern Oregon
Mr. Pierre van der Sluys	Tualatin Valley
Ms. Kathy Sabel	West Portland Suburban
Ms. Maria Marquez	Yamhill County/Marion County

 

Directly Appointed:	Mr. Clint Bentz
	Ms. Alice Garcia
	Ms. Isabel Vela
	Mr. Thanh Huu Tran

                                                    

                                                     

Priests:	Rev. John Henderson
	Rev. Bill Moisant

                                                   

   

Permanent Deacon:

Deacon Jerry Giger

                                         

              

Religious:	Sr. Marcia Ternes, FSE
	Sr. Virginia Schroeder, SNJM

                     

                 

 Staff:

 

Executive Staff:             Rev. Msgr. Charles Lienert

 

Parishes within the Area Vicariate

DOWNTOWN PORTLAND –  Rev. James Mayo Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (St. Mary) Downtown Chapel (St. Vincent de Paul) St. Michael the Archangel* St. Patrick St. Thomas More	NORTHEAST PORTLAND –  Rev. Michael BiewendHoly Cross Holy Redeemer Holy Rosary Immaculate Heart The Madeleine (St. Mary Magdalene)*  Our Lady of Lavang (Southeast Asian   Ethnic Vicariate) St. Andrew St. Charles St. Rose of Lima St. Stanislaus
WEST PORTLAND, SUBURBAN –  Rev. Bill Moisant  Church of the Resurrection, Tualatin*  Our Lady of the Lake, Lake Oswego  St. Anthony, Tigard  St. Clare, Portland   St. Cyril, Wilsonville  St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Portland  St. Francis, Sherwood	SOUTHEAST PORTLAND –  Rev. Michael Evemden, CSP  All Saints  Ascension  Church of the Korean Martyrs  Holy Family  Our Lady of Sorrows  Sacred Heart  St. Agatha  St. Anthony  St. Francis of Assisi  St. Ignatius  St. Philip Neri*  St. Stephen
SOUTH PORTLAND, SUBURBAN – Rev. Paschal Ezurike Christ the King, Milwaukie   St. Aloysius, Estacada  St. John the Apostle, Oregon City  St. John the Baptist, Milwaukie   St. Patrick, Canby  St. Philip Benizi, Redland*	EAST PORTLAND, SUBURBAN –  Rev. Charles Zach  St. Anne, Gresham   St. Henry, Gresham*   St. Joseph the Worker  St. Michael, Sandy   St. Peter  St. Rita  St. Therese
BEAVERTON, SUBURBAN –  Rev.Sean Weeks  Holy Trinity, Beaverton  St. Cecilia, Beaverton  St. John Fisher, Portland  St. Juan Diego  St. Pius X, Portland*	COLUMBIA COUNTY – Rev. Luan Tran  Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Rainier  (Clatskanie Mission)   St. Birgitta, Portland  St. Frederic, St. Helens*  St. Mary, Vernonia   St. Wenceslaus, Scappoose
TUALATIN VALLEY –  Rev. Michael Vuky  St. Alexander, Cornelius  St. Anthony, Forest Grove  St. Edward, North Plains  St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Aloha  St. Francis, Roy   St. Matthew, Hillsboro Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary,   Verboort*	YAMHILL COUNTY –  Rev. Don Gutmann  Good Shepherd, Sheridan   St. James, McMinnville  St. John, Yamhill  St. Michael, Grande Ronde  St. Peter, Newberg*
METROPOLITAN SALEM –  Rev. Gary Zerr  Queen of Peace, Salem  St. Augustine, Lincoln City St. Edward, Keizer*  St. Joseph, Salem  St. Philip, Dallas  St. Vincent de Paul	MARION COUNTY –  Rev. Philip Waibel, OSB  Sacred Heart-St. Louis, Gervais  St. James, Molalla   St. Luke, Woodburn (Hubbard Mission)  St. Mary, Mount Angel* (Scotts Mills Mission)  St. Paul, St. Paul  St. Paul, Silverton
SANTIAM – Rev. Ed ColemanImmaculate Conception, Stayton (Mill City Mission)*Our Lady of Lourdes, Jordan St. Bernard, Scio (Jefferson Mission) St. Boniface, Sublimity  St. Mary, Shaw	ALBANY-CORVALLIS –  Rev. Andrew Thomas Sacred Heart, Newport (Siletz Mission) St. Anthony, Waldport St. Edward, Lebanon  St. Helen, Sweet Home (Brownsville Mission) St. Mary (Our Lady of Perpetual Help), Albany * St. Mary, Corvallis St. Patrick, Independence
METROPOLITAN EUGENE –  Rev. Ronald Nelson Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Cottage Grove  (Creswell Mission) St. Alice, Springfield  St. Catherine of Siena, Veneta  St. Helen, Junction City  St. Jude, Eugene St. Mark, Eugene St. Mary, Eugene* St. Michael, Oakridge (Dexter Mission) St. Paul, Eugene St. Peter, Eugene St. Rose, Monroe-Harrisburg  St. Thomas More (Newman Center, UofO)	SOUTHERN OREGON – Rev. William Holtzinger All Souls, Myrtle Creek (Glendale Mission) Our Lady of the Mountain, Ashland Our Lady of Fatima, Shady Cove Sacred Heart, Medford* (Jacksonville Mission) Shepherd of the Valley, Central Point St. Anne, Grants Pass (Cave Junction & Rogue River Missions,  Station at Provolt) St. Francis, Sutherlin  St. Joseph, Roseburg
NORTH COAST – Rev.Joseph Hoang Our Lady of Victory, Seaside (Arch Cape Mission) Sacred Heart, Tillamook (Cloverdale Mission)* St. Mary Star of the Sea, Astoria*\ (Hammond Mission) St. Mary by the Sea, Rockaway	SOUTH COAST – Rev. Roger Fernando Holy Trinity, Bandon (Port Orford Mission) Holy Name, Coquille (Myrtle Point  Mission) Holy Redeemer, North Bend Star of the Sea, Brookings (Gold Beach Mission) St. John the Apostle, Reedsport St. Mary Our Lady of the Dunes, Florence* St. Monica, Coos Bay