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A year-long celebration is planned to mark the 100th anniversary of the St. Augustine Church at 1139 NW Highway 101 in Lincoln City.

The Reverend John I. Jenkins will step down after nearly two decades of service as the president of Notre Dame University at the end of the 2023-24 academic year. / Credit: Barbara Johnston, University of Notre Dame Washington, D.C. Newsroom, O...

The suspect, Billy James Sweeten, 48, is currently in police custody at Marion County Jail.

According to the latest statements from the Salem Police Department, the cause of the fire is currently unknown.

In response to the growing deference of Catholic programs and staff to gender identity theory, Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample has shut down the Department of Catholic Schools and placed more schools directly under his own supervision.

“Recent changes at the Department of Catholic Schools are not in any way tied to the Gender Identity Theory document or its related controversy,” Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland (OR) said in a June 28 memo to priests and school leaders, in which he sought to “address some inaccurate media reports that have led to some confusion.

(OSV News) -- The head of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon has refuted media reports that the archdioceses recent closure of its Catholic schools office is related to a gender identity theory document published by the archdiocese in January. In a memo to school leaders and clergy sent late June 28 and obtained by OSV News, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample said he wanted to address some inaccurate media reports that have led to some confusion. Recent changes at the Department of Catholic

Archbishop Alexander Sample said he wanted to "address some inaccurate media reports that have led to some confusion" about his recent decision.

The department oversees more than 40 archdiocesan elementary schools and high schools, which educate more than 15,000 students and employ about 1,300 teachers...

Archbishop Alexander K. Sample told Catholic school teachers and staff they must intentionally misgender trans students and also to please generally make school hell for them.