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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In two recent opinion pieces, executive editor Heidi Schlumpf and political columnist Michael Sean Winters discussed liberal Catholicism. In her column, Schlumpf talks about how the inauguration of President Joe Biden has brought about conversation of the rise of liberal Catholicism or liberal Christianity. While I m sure progressives are grateful for the attention, I also want to say: Folks, we ve been here all along, she writes. Winters writes that we liberal Catholics never went away and never could go away. Letters to the editor responding to the pieces are below and have been edited for length and clarity.
Thank you, Heidi Schlumpf! We have been here all along.
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