New Bethlehem Place provides 24-7 shelter for homeless families
KIRKLAND – After nearly five years, two Eastside parishes have seen their dream of a year-round shelter for homeless families become reality.
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Bellingham’s Catholic community fosters vocations to religious life
BELLINGHAM – An emphasis on helping young people learn about religious life and discern their vocations is bearing fruit at the Newman Center at Western Washington University and nearby Sacred Heart Parish.
Oregon fires: Most churches safe, for now, offering shelter
PORTLAND, Oregon – While the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains have been ablaze, creating red apocalyptic skies and leaving five small towns in ashes, most of the churches in the Archdiocese of Portland have not burned and many have offered shelter to thousands of evacuees.
Archbishop Etienne appoints liaisons for religious life
SEATTLE – Archbishop Paul D. Etienne has appointed Dominican Sisters Sharon Casey and Sharon Park to serve as liaisons to women in religious life in the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Official pastoral appointments
Here are the latest pastoral appointments in the Archdiocese of Seattle, as announced by Archbishop Paul D. Etienne.
Archbishop blesses new St. Martin’s abbot
LACEY – As the monks at St. Martin’s Abbey prepared to elect a new abbot to succeed longtime Abbot Neal Roth, Benedictine Father Marion Qui-Thac Nguyen knew there was a slight possibility he would be nominated.