Catholic Dance Party
Photos by Evan Roesler
t happens once a month, smack dab in the middle of one of the Left
Coast’s most ‘progressive’ cities: Portland, Oregon. Dozens of young Catholics from five -area parishes have way too much fun doing what their local peers can only dream of -- dancing the night away with a bunch of normal, fun kids in the parish hall at Holy Rosary, a Dominican parish.
The dancers hail from the parishes of Our Lady of Fatima; Holy Rosary; St. Stephen's; St. Brigitta’s and St. Thomas Becket in Eugene. The youngest dancers are high school freshmen. The oldest are in graduate school, or working. Most have been homeschooled. There is an official ballroom dance instruction at every dance.
Moreover, the Catholic Dance Party is growing. What started out as just 20 dancers in 2017 is now averaging about 75 kids – and when the college kids return in the summer, it gets even bigger. REGINA sat down with two sets of brother and sisters who attend and here’s what they had to say!
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