Catholic Connection – March 18, 2025 – Hr 2

Segment 2 & 3 – Archbishop Alexander Sample Issues Pastoral Teaching on the Sanctity of Life in Response to Oregon Governor’s Proclamation Supporting Abortion Provider Appreciation Day
In response to Governor Tina Kotek’s proclamation of Abortion Provider Appreciation Day on March 10, Archbishop Alexander Sample issued a Pastoral Teaching letter, expressing deep sorrow over what he describes as “a kind of spiritual blindness so thick that what should be self-evident—the sheer wonder and worth of a human life—is obscured entirely.” The Archbishop warns that honoring abortion providers represents “not just moral confusion. It’s something deeper.” He calls on the faithful to recognize the gravity of a culture that not only permits abortion but now seeks to celebrate it: “The idea that those who make a living ending innocent, unborn life should be publicly honored… This isn’t just moral confusion. It’s something deeper.”  Read it here.

Archbishop Alexander Sample was appointed the eleventh Archbishop of Portland in Oregon on January 29, 2013, and was installed at a Mass of Installation on April 2, 2013, held at the Chiles Center on the campus of the University of Portland.