“The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men—of fathers—leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys’ bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again for word from their fathers at the front. Often from fractured homes and communities, the young men in these breathless […]

The unconsecrated, or not blessed, part of the cemetery is where these unbaptized babies, born to Catholic families, many of them stillborn, were buried. This occurred early in the 1900s, in the Mount Carmel Cemetery. The names of the babies will be read during a memorial Mass at 10 a.m. on Nov. 11 at St. […]