VANCOUVER – Colleen Torrens can trace her family’s membership at St. John the Evangelist Parish back to its beginnings 150 years ago. Her grandparents were married in its first church in 1898.

SEATTLE – Incense wafted and babies cooed while the full-to-capacity congregation of North American Martyrs Parish celebrated its 10th anniversary September 30 with a solemn high Mass in Latin.

DEMING – In 1893, missionary priest Father Jean Baptiste Boulet set off from Bellingham on a two-day, 25-mile trek to remote eastern Whatcom County, where he offered Mass for Catholic loggers and farmers and their families.

Northwest Catholic is proud to honor these 16 priests who are marking special ordination anniversaries this year:

‘We must always be certain that we are preaching Jesus Christ’

WASHINGTON - Nearly five years after one of the most devastating earthquakes ever to rock the Western Hemisphere, more than 85,000 people still live in dozens of tent camps across Haiti's expansive earthquake zone.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish sits in the long shadow of the Space Needle, a living reminder of a bygone era with its own colorful past.

CARNATION – In the early days of what is now east King County, priests traveled up the Snoqualmie River to celebrate Mass in communities along the river.