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Annual pro-life, social justice events will bring Catholics to Olympia

Catholic Northwest Progress archives join the digital age

Parishes join interfaith partnership to shelter Vancouver’s homeless each winter

Focus on religious liberty, poverty expected during 2019 legislative session

The border crisis up close: Local volunteers help at migrant respite center in Texas

Archbishop Sartain reflects on U.S. bishops' retreat

Catholic Northwest Progress archives join the digital age

OLYMPIA – Catholics wanting to research their families and parishes — or just get a glimpse of life in the early 20th century — can now peruse digital versions of the defunct Catholic Northwest Progress newspaper.

Parishes join interfaith partnership to shelter Vancouver’s homeless each winter
VANCOUVER – When Joan Heimbigner’s son was in eighth grade, they signed up to volunteer with their community’s Winter Hospitality Overflow (WHO) program. The move has made a big difference in their lives.
Annual pro-life, social justice events will bring Catholics to Olympia
OLYMPIA – It’s not too late to join the annual pro-life and social justice events that bring Western Washington Catholics together at the state Capitol.

Spinoza, secularism and the challenge of evangelization

During this Christmas holiday, I’ve been reading Anthony Gottlieb’s breezy and enjoyable history of modern philosophy, entitled The Dream of Enlightenment. Throughout his treatment of such figures as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Voltaire, Gottlieb reveals his own rather strong bias in favor of the rationalism and anti-supernaturalism advocated by these avatars of modern thought. Toward...

Bishop Robert Barron

It’s OK to start 2019 with you
I’ve always appreciated the notion of self-care in an Oprah Winfrey, hot-baths-and-expensive-chocolates kind of way. We work so hard, the thinking goes, that we deserve a break here and there. So splurge on that full-price gift-to-yourself. Book the massage. Binge on the new season.
The double message of Christmas
I’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out Christmas cards with messages like: May the Peace of Christ Disturb You! Can’t we have one day a year to be happy and celebrate without having our already unhappy selves shaken with more guilt? Isn’t Christmas a time when we can enjoy being children again? Moreover, as…

A sweet and sour dish inspired by Our Lady of Lourdes

Merry Christmas and happy new year! About this time in the Christmas season I am reminded of the crèche my brother used to set up in his yard. Among streets lined with bins heaped with discarded trees and remnants of gift wrap, the Magi would continue their journey across the yard with precious gifts in hand, each day bringing them...

The generosity and joy of St. Nicholas
Make a miter centerpiece in honor of this bishop who reminds us to care for the poor
A soup for holy souls
Giving thanks for the great gift of community