Students take protest over gay teacher to archdiocese
A crowd of more than 250 high school students mounted a Friday “snow day” protest at the Archdiocese of Seattle against the diocese’s action in ordering the resignation of an Eastside Catholic High...
View ArticleThe political losers of 2013 — tales of excess and aloofness
The biggest political losers of 2013 were those, here and across America, guilty of overconfidence, overreaching or failing to reach out enough. It was a year of upsets and upset people, of reversals...
View ArticleNew Year’s resolves needed in the corridors of power
The dawning of 2014 will send enrollees to America’s gyms vowing to get back in shape, see the arrival of a new CEO vowing to shape up Microsoft, see President Obama try to shape his legacy, and...
View ArticleHome Depot founder: Pope Francis ruffling rich donors
The social gospel preachings of Pope Francis are starting to ruffle rich American Catholics, according to Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who is leading an effort to raise $180 million to restore St....
View ArticlePeople to watch in 2014: Seattle-area edition
Recognition is earned, more often by persistence and determination than by making a quick splash. Here is a list of people (and one group) in the Seattle area worthy of watching in 2014: – Paula...
View ArticleCatholic students plan big ‘Z-Day’ protest
Students from Eastside Catholic High School and other Catholic secondary schools delivered a message outside the Archdiocese of Seattle on Saturday afternoon: We are not going away, and we are taking...
View ArticlePetition protesting firing of gay Eastside Catholic administrator presented...
Supporters of ousted Eastside Catholic School vice principal Mark Zmuda took their case to Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain on Wednesday, submitting 21,000 signatures on a petition seeking a...
View ArticleEastside Catholic and Archbishop Sartain: A case for connecting
Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain would be walking in the footsteps of Pope Francis were he to drive out to Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish and open a dialogue with students protesting the...
View ArticleHead of Eastside Catholic quits: ‘Necessary decision’
The continuing, month-long controversy swirling around the ouster of a newly married gay vice principal of Eastside Catholic High School has claimed a major casualty. Sister Mary Tracy has submitted...
View ArticleGiffords on gun shows: “Be bold, be courageous”
The Arizona congresswoman shot by an assassin at a 2011 Tucson town meeting came to a packed Olympia hearing on Tuesday, appealing to Washington legislators and voters to close the “gun show...
View ArticleOusted Mr. Z: Eastside Catholic students teaching their church
Ousted Eastside Catholic vice principal Mark Zmuda still wants his job back, but a boisterous Seattle forum Friday night delivered an additional message: Whatever happens, the school is not going back....
View ArticleWhere does Washington rank among the least religious states?
Deep South states and Utah are America’s most religious places, while New England and the Pacific Northwest hold the least religious citizens in the land, according to the Gallup Poll’s annual...
View ArticleCatholic bishops support, praise Inslee death penalty moratorium
Washington’s four Roman Catholic bishops have supported and applauded a moratorium on the death penalty announced earlier this week by Gov. Jay Inslee. The governor “has taken a positive step by...
View ArticlePeace activist Catholic priest to speak — at Methodist church
A Catholic priest renowned for his peace activism is coming to Seattle, but for the second time in seven months the venue for a Catholic clergyman will be a local a Methodist Church. Father John Dear...
View ArticlePope Francis: An accidental Italian ‘f-bomb”‘
Italian is not the mother tongue for Pope Francis, and on Tuesday the pontiff accidentally dropped the Italian equivalent of the “f”-bomb at the Vatican during a social justice homily. The pope takes...
View ArticlePope Francis: Opening door to gay civil unions?
Pope Francis began Christians’ Lenten pilgrimage on Wednesday by walking a narrow line between Roman Catholic doctrine on marriage between the sexes, and society’s growing acceptance of unions between...
View ArticleMark Miloscia, anti-abortion Democrat, now runs as Republican for state Senate
Ex-State Rep. Mark Miloscia, a lonely anti-abortion voice and gay marriage opponent as a Democratic legislator, is becoming a Republican and challenging state Sen. Tracey Eide in the south end 30th...
View ArticleOusted Eastside Catholic vice principal fired for his gay marriage will sue
Ousted Eastside Catholic vice principal Mark Zmuda will announce Friday that he is filing a discrimination suit against the school as well as the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. Zmuda was ousted in...
View ArticleFired Catholic school vice prinicpal targets archdiocese in lawsuit
The popular former vice principal of Eastside Catholic School, ousted after he married his gay partner, is arguing in a lawsuit that the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle was behind his abrupt,...
View ArticleCampaign begins on Initiative 594 to require background checks on gun-show buys
Washington voters will be watched across the nation for the second time in three years: The Evergreen State faces a duel over gun laws on its November ballot. The attention in 2012 was to Referendum...
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