Archbishop Sample Reorganizes the Pastoral Center. Six resignations.

Director of worship leaves archdiocese

Sr. Jeremy Gallet Sister Jeremy Gallet, archdiocesan director of the Office of Worship, is leaving her job. Her resignation adds to the list of five other Portland archdiocesan staffers who left their jobs earlier this month. The department heads and key staff are departing as part of a reorganization of Pastoral Center operations. Archbishop Alexander Sample said the changes are part of the archdiocese's effort to streamline operations and better communicate with the Western Oregon parishes and  schools the Pastoral Center serves. The reorganization is the result of a months-long review of pastoral center practices by a firm retained by the archdiocese.

Entire Article on Joy Wallace from Catholic Sentinel, June 16, 2014. Link is broken.

It was pointed out to me that this link was "broken".  In fact, the Catholic Sentinel archives has no mention of Joy Wallace I could find.  So, here is the entire article.

      

Portland Catholic honored as guardian of bullied kids

Catholic Sentinel photo by Ed Langlois

Joy Wallace leads a group that works with schools to stop bullying.

6/16/2014 4:32:00 PM By Ed Langlois Joy Wallace thinks no one should get picked on for who they are.

A member of St. Andrew Parish in Northeast Portland, she has received a major award from the Oregon Education Association for defusing bullying in schools and aiding students who have been bullied.

Wallace, 68, is a founder and co-chair of the all-volunteer Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition.

Among the youths most often bullied are those who are homosexual or transgender. Children with disabilities and learning differences also get persecuted.

When parents are dissatisfied with answers and actions from schools, they come to Wallace. The coalition helps the students and their families by responding vigorously to bullying — sometimes with volunteer lawyers — and by offering education and events to halt bullying and harassment before it begins. The coalition also collects data, which lawmakers use to hone policy.

“You can’t concentrate to learn mathematics if you fear your school environment,” Wallace says.

One of the hopes is to reduce suicide among victims of bullying.

“I guess I have a passion for making things more fair for people,” she explains, crediting Catholic social teaching for refining her passions.

Wallace received the OEA’s Ed Elliott Human Rights Award, named after an Oregon educator who worked for inclusivity in public schools during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. The award goes to people who have made a sustained contribution to human rights in Oregon. When news of the recognition was announced after Mass at St. Andrew, worshipers gave Wallace a standing ovation.

Wallace, who became Catholic in 1988, was a high school teacher intent on social justice. While working in Corvallis, she noticed bullying just outside her classroom and felt a dearth of resources for making schools safer.

In 2001, four years after a move to Portland, she attended a conference on ending bullying and met others who felt like her. The coalition emerged.

A natural teacher, Wallace leads the group so it tells the history of discrimination, with an emphasis on ethical decision making. When the Oregon Legislature passed a tough anti-bullying law in 2009, the coalition took the lead in seeing to it that K-12 schools implement the policy. Organizers convene meetings so district representatives can become stronger advocates at their schools.

State guidelines don’t apply to private schools, but Wallace thinks the values at Catholic schools are a good start against discrimination. She urges Catholic school officials to monitor their institutions and look over the state policy.

Included in the coalition is the “Welcoming the Whole Family” Committee from St. Andrew Parish, which seeks to make gay and lesbians feel at home in the Catholic Church.

Wallace feels encouraged because new federal requirements against bullying have come out and are strong. “Having legislation is a good first step to having safer schools,” she says.

Now retired except for volunteering, Wallace once worked as development director for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and the Franciscan Spiritual Center.

“She has deep roots in Catholic social justice teaching,” says Jane Braunger, also a member of St. Andrew’s. “It is also about hospitality for her. And I find her upbeat. She is never harsh in her criticism. She is about rolling up her sleeves and getting work done.”             

    

Foxes in the (Archdiocese of Portland's) Henhouse - Why Did the Catholic Sentinel Allow a Joy Wallace article?

Ed Langois, a reporter for the Catholic Sentinel since 1993, knows about Joy Wallace.  Robert Pfohman, the editor must know about her too, yet, he decided to put in the article below.

This, in my opinion, undermines Archbishop Sample; further confuse Catholics about the teachings of the Church by promoting active homosexuality even in our public and possibly Catholic schools; same-sex marriage and "woman priests". 

(This link below no longer works since this article was written)  Please see entire article at http://vocalblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/entire-article-on-joy-wallace-from.html)

Click http://www.catholicsentinel.org/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=25448

She got the award for supporting only homosexual and confused children in the schools.  Not fat kids, kids with glasses, wheelchair bounds kids or even red or yellow black or white kids.  As a "catholic" does she help these homosexual and confused children know that their Creator has a plan for each of their lives? 
Click http://www.oregoned.org/images/pages/RA_mediarelease_2014_Final_(1).pdf



This pose from 2013 by encouraging others to override Archbishop Sample request to not participate in the Portland Pride Parade. Joy is leading these people away from the Truth and no matter how she "feels", she shouldn't be considered a Catholic this invincible ignorance.

“It was much more difficult for me to tell my feminist friends that I had made the choice to become a Catholic than it ever was to come out as a lesbian.”





         













Sadly this is how far she is taking her disobedience of the Truth of Christ.





Joy Wallace holding book of professed "womanpriest" Toni Tortorilla at Sophia Christi "Catholic" community's 4th anniversary "mass". One of five in this Archdiocese administering Sacraments that are not valid.

She is on the Board of Directors of  EQUITY.  A pro-homosexual group.







Joy Wallace, Secretary, recently retired as a Development Director for a faith-based non-profit and has had a long career as an educator, mainly doing professional development for teachers and materials development in equity-related topics. She currently chairs the Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition Board of Directors and serves on the Board of the Sophia Christi community ("womenpriests" church). She works with the Portland Catholic Coalition of Welcoming Parishes to increase welcoming queer ministry in Catholic churches. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and a Master’s degree from Oregon State University. For fun, she volunteers in her granddaughter’s classroom, loves going camping, reading and gardening.

Finally, listen to what she says about the Catholic church.  Her contribution to this panel is seven minutes and thirty seconds (7:30) into the video below.   

 

 

 Ed Langois and Robert Pfohman

 why was this woman chosen for an article in the Catholic Sentinel?

 





Cardinal Arinze & Mental Prayer

Archbishop Sample and Our Lady.

From VOCAL  in May.
The Spiritual War is On: Archbishop Sample Consecrates Archdiocese to 'Our Lady of Fatima": Sat. June 28th 2 pm


Reminder from a reader.   Thanks. 

Dear Friends in Christ: 
 
On June 28, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Mary's
Cathedral.
 
Archbishop Sample will consecrate the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of
Fatima and do whatever is possible to promote the First Saturday devotion. 

The new Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Fatima which was
blessed by Pope Francis will be at the Cathedral.  

Some of the National Board  of the World Apostolate of Fatima will be there, EWTN will be featuring the event, the National Catholic Register, and possibly other Catholic media. 

The Statue will be in Portland until July 5 and will visit Five parishes as yet to be selected. 

Pass this information on to all of your relatives and acquaintances so we will have an overflowing crown to honor Our Lady.

N.K.