The North Star Catholic / August 2014 - The North Star Catholic

Dominicans to host Friars’ Fest at Anchorage cathedral

The Dominicans at Holy Family Cathedral are hosting their annual Friars’ Fest Aug. 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the cathedral courtyard. The public is invited to partake in an afternoon of food and games. Entertainment throughout the day will be provided by AKSAXO Jazz, harpist Colleen Duncan, the Dynamic Dominicans and several dance groups. Various food booths will serve ethnic cuisines, along with Kaladi Bros coffee, ribs and Tastee Freez ice cream.

Clearing the air around legalizing marijuana

Part of the unethical character of drug abuse flows from the fact that we are treating something good, namely our personal, conscious experience as if it were an evil to be avoided. Recreational drug users seek to escape or otherwise suppress their lived conscious experience, and instead pursue chemically-altered states of mind, or drug-induced pseudo-experiences. Any time we act in such a way that we treat something objectively good as if it were an evil by acting directly against it, we act in a disordered and immoral manner.

Upcoming events

Heritage Girls to launch troop at the cathedral Holy Family Cathedral is starting a scouting troop of American Heritage Girls — an explicitly Christian scouting organization with Alaska troops already stationed in Eagle River, Glennallen, Dillingham and Palmer. On Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. troop leaders from Eagle River and Palmer as well as another…

Redemptorist priest Fr. David Tobin dies

Redemptorist Father David Tobin, who served for a time in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, died June 27 after a heart attack. He was 77.
In the 1960s, he helped run a popular summer camp, St. Theresa’s, from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on the Kenai Peninsula.

August Community Calendar

Sundays 11 a.m., Mass, AK Native Medical Center Sundays, 4 p.m., Dominican Rite Mass, Cathedral Tuesdays, 10 a.m., MOMs group, St. Andrew Wednesdays, 12:45 p.m., Moving & Shaking Seniors, Holy Family Cathedral Tuesdays, 11 a.m., Native Kateri Circle, St. Anthony Wednesdays, 4 p.m., Children’s Rosary, St. Andrew, Eagle River Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m., Eucharistic adoration for…

Cardinal visits Alaska: Says leaders must serve

In July Cardinal Orlando Quevedo, of the Archdiocese of Cotabato, Philippines, made his third visit to the Archdiocese of Anchorage and his first since Pope Francis made him a cardinal in February. The recent trip was part of the now decade-long Global Solidarity Partnership between Cardinal Quevedo and Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz. The arrangement, which seeks to build solidarity and friendships between Catholics in Alaska and the Philippines, has resulted in several priests from Cotabato coming to serve in Alaska over the years.
While in Alaska, Cardinal Quevedo sat down with the Catholic Anchor to discuss the future of the partnership and his recent appointment as a cardinal.