Portlandâs Black Catholic service couple
Bill and Gladys McCoy used their power for societyâs good Gladys McCoy greets Archbishop William Levada at a 1991 Mass honoring the work of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Michael Wilhelm/Catholic Sentinel) 7/8/2021 4:53 PM
select Bill McCoy entered the Oregon Legislature in 1972 and would serve until his death in 1996. (Sentinel archives) Gladys McCoy serves as a lector at Holy Cross Church in North Portland in 1992, a year before her death. (Sentinel archives) • •
In 1996, when Bill and Gladys McCoy had died after fruitful careers in public service, a former Sentinel reporter wrote a reflection.
“It is hard to think of one McCoy without the other,” wrote Geri Ethen, who’d known the couple since her childhood. “These path-breakers set goals for themselves in the early civil rights era to go where no A
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Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women has aimed for consolidated action from Catholic women Delegates attend the 1970 Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women convention on the Oregon Coast. (Sentinel archives) 5/4/2021 9:07 AM
select On April 14, 1921, the Sentinel reported on the first local womenâs groups to affiliate themselves with new National Council of Catholic Women.
After decades of advocacy and protest, American women had only just secured the vote nationwide. A few years earlier, while the doughboys were fighting overseas, mothers, wives and daughters had stepped into influential roles including in the Catholic Church.
By April 1921, three Northwest Catholic women’s societies had affiliated themselves with the new National Council of Catholic Women. The women’s auxiliary of Portland’s Ancient Order of Hibernians; the Confraternity of Christian Mothers in Cottonwood, Idaho; and the Women’s Ord
Fr. Rodillas: a faithful priest who loved to sing
Friday, Jan. 29, 2021
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At the Jan. 20 vigil service for Fr. Reyato Rodillas, Bishop Oscar A. Solis blesses the priest, who died of COVID-19 about Jan. 8.
By Marie Mischel
Intermountain Catholic
SALT LAKE CITY Fr. Reynato (Rene) Rodillas, who died of COVID-19 probably on Jan. 8, was recalled as a faithful priest with a missionary spirit with a huge smile who loved to sing and garden.
Fr. Rodillas, who would have been 59 on Jan. 25, “lived the new life Christ graciously died and rose to give him as a priest,” said Deacon Scott Dodge at the Jan. 20 vigil service, celebrated at the Cathedral of the Madeleine by Bishop Oscar A. Solis; Msgr. Colin F. Bircumshaw, vicar general; Fr. Ken Vialpando, vicar for clergy; Fr. Martin Diaz, rector of the cathedral; and other priests of the diocese.