By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jul 10, 2025 / 12:30 pm Pope Leo XIV has tapped Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, to be the next bishop of Baker, a mission diocese in eastern Oregon. The bishop-elect, who celebrates 21 years as a priest on July …

By Christian Cristobal Portland, Ore., Jun 24, 2025 / 15:17 pm Over 3,000 Catholics filled the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Sunday for a Eucharistic procession led by Archbishop Alexander Sample. To encourage broad participation from clergy and the faithful across the archdiocese, a special Mass was offered at 2 p.m. …

by CNA Staff Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 10, 2022 / 05:14 am The offices of Oregon Right to Life in Keizer, Oregon, were set on fire late Sunday night, the organization announced Monday. “In the late evening on Sunday, May 8, the offices of Oregon Right to Life were attacked. …

by Mary Farrow Denver Newsroom, Sep 15, 2020 / 05:11 pm MT (CNA).- “Level one, which is get ready. Level two, get set. And level three – go, get out of there,” Bishop Peter Smith, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, told CNA. The people of Oregon …

CNA Staff, Jul 27, 2020 / 03:20 pm MT (CNA).- The archbishop of Portland, Oregon is urging Catholics to learn about and study how to respond to the sin of racism, while at the same time condemning the violence accompanying many of the protests in the city for the past …