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Oregon re-criminalizes hard drugs after ‘overdose rates skyrocketed’

April 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

A person holds a foil while smoking following the decriminalization of all drugs, including fentanyl and meth, in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 25, 2024. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, … […]

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Oregon reports significant uptick in assisted suicides

March 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Oregon State Capitol in Salem. / Credit: Zack Frank/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 28, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is reporting a significant rise in assisted suicide prescriptions and deaths in the… […]

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Pro-life leaders are ‘laser focused’ on state marches this election year: here’s what you need to know

January 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Members of the Houston-based Catholic Youth for Life carry their flag, alongside the state flag, at the 2024 Texas March for Life. / Credit: Catholic Youth for Life

CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
With regulation of abortion expect… […]

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Oregon mother appeals court ruling in religious discrimination adoption case

December 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Oregon resident Jessica Bates appealed a court’s ruling against her in a case alleging that the government is religiously discriminating against her by refusing to allow her to adopt children from the state system. / Credit: Alliance Defending F… […]

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When an Oregon town told a church to limit its meals to the homeless the DOJ stepped in

November 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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CNA Staff, Nov 28, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this month signaled its support for an Oregon Episcopal church in a legal dispute over a homeless meals program that the church has run for year… […]

The Dispatch

“We are all made with hearts, desiring truth, goodness and beauty”

May 14, 2023 S. Kirk Pierzchala 2

On a chill, mid-January morning, Oregon’s Willamette Valley is awash in a steady downpour of rain. Inside the historic Glatt House, in the farming town of Woodburn, the dismal weather is forgotten as I step […]

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On Jessica Bates and the “new orthodoxy”: Can people of faith still adopt?

April 10, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom […]

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Oregon denies adoption after woman refuses to back gender ideology, homosexuality

April 6, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Oregon resident Jessica Bates filed a federal lawsuit after state officials denied her adoption application because of her opposition to gender ideology. / Alliance Defending Freedom

Washington D.C., Apr 6, 2023 / 12:36 pm (CNA).
An Oregon woma… […]

Features

A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory addresses “tsunami” of gender ideology

February 16, 2023 Jim Graves 39

Archbishop Alexander Sample of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon released A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory: Catechesis and Pastoral Guidelines on January 25th. In an introductory letter, he explained that its purpose is […]

The Dispatch

Consuming true medicine: Why Catholics should oppose legalizing marijuana

October 27, 2022 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 49

Within this multiyear Eucharistic Revival, we should not only foster devotion to the sacrament we recognize as the source and summit of our faith, but we must also remove the obstacles that keep us from […]

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