As an Oregon Catholic currently resident in the UK, I read Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample’s recent response to the Governor of Oregon’s designation of 10 March as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day” with great interest.
Having now returned to Oregon for a visit home I have since heard two homilies from Oregon priests reflecting on the Archbishop’s wise words.
Under the headline “The Celebration of Death”, Archbishop Sample’s teaching opens with the following line:
"There are moments when words fail, when the mind stares into the abyss and finds no bottom. When all that’s left is a kind of stunned silence - the kind you feel when you realise just how far a culture can drift from reality.”
