Портленд қаласының католик газетінің тарихы

Newspaper in Portland, Oregon

The Catholic Sentinel was the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland. It was published by Oregon Catholic Press, which also published El Centinela, the Spanish language version of the Catholic Sentinel. The Catholic Sentinel published an online edition from 1996 to 2022. In 2022, it was announced that both the Sentinel and El Centinela would be discontinued as of October 1, 2022.

The Catholic Sentinel was started in 1869 by grocer Henry Herman and printer J. F. Atkinson in response to anti Catholicism. After the Whitman massacre in 1847, a Protestant minister falsely accused local Catholics of inciting a band of Cayuse Indians to killing 10 Protestant missionaries. The Sentinel states it has consistently fought anti Catholic prejudice. In 1879, editor Stephen McCormick stated: The Sentinel covered Grant's speech, in which he spoke highly of an A. P. A riot in Boston a month earlier on the 4th of July. In 1912, and for several years thereafter, the Ku Klux Klan circulated a bogus oath supposedly taken by members of the Knights of Columbus. The spurious pledge contained, among other provisions, those in which members purported pledged loyalty to the Pope and denounced Liberals, Masons, and Protestants; pledged not to hire any Protestant, and to send domestic workers as spies into Protestant homes. In 1928, the Catholic Sentinel was acquired by the Catholic Truth Society of Oregon, later renamed Oregon Catholic Press. It moved to a new printing plant in 1963 after its former building was condemned for use in the Stadium Freeway project. In 2017, the Catholic Press Association of the United States named the Sentinel Newspaper of the Year in its category. The last time the paper won that honor was 1959. It won it again in 2021. On July 21, 2022, the Archdiocese of Portland and Oregon Catholic Press issued a joint news release announcing that both the Catholic Sentinel and El Centinela (its Spanish counterpart) would close on Oct. 1.