The year 2025 will mark 50 years since Monsignor Taaffe started his vital ministry known as Father Taaffe Homes. Since the opening of the St. Brigid Home in 1975, the beloved Father Taaffe Homes (FTH) program has helped save the lives of more than 300 babies by giving vulnerable pregnant moms the support they need to say Yes to life. Catholic Community Services (CCS) has been honored to sustain Fr. Taaffe’s legacy since 2008. Today, after nearly 50 years, the FTH ministry has an opportunity to expand at Queen of Angels Monastery and once again provide a safe, stable community for more young moms to carry their babies to term and learn to protect and nurture them once born.
CCS is preparing to renovate two individual homes on the monastery grounds and to christen them as St. Brigid Home and St. Teresa Home, the names of the homes that Fr. Taaffe started and through which, Catholic Community Services has been sustaining his ministry. In preparation for the changeover to the monastery, we have helped the last mom and baby residing in the current St. Brigid Home to successfully graduate the program and move to the Father Taaffe St. Monica Apartments in Keizer. The St. Brigid Home has been sold, and proceeds will be used to begin needed renovations to get the monastery homes ready to begin accepting moms soon.