CatholicAnchor.org The Alaska Democratic Party has officially included homosexual marriage as part of its party platform, one of several updates made in May. In an email to party supporters Communications Director Zack Fields noted that the platform now includes the statement: “Alaska Democrats support marriage equality and oppose discrimination against same-sex couples.” The official support…
CatholicAnchor.org Homosexual activists are hoping a recent Alaska Supreme Court ruling on property exemptions is the beginning of even wider legal recognition and public affirmation of same-sex relationships in Alaska. Homosexual activists have their eye on overturning of the state’s constitutional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. The Alaska Supreme Court…
CatholicAnchor.org On a recent evening in Anchorage, about 200 people of varying politics attended a town hall forum on how Christians should engage the public on LGBTQ — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning — issues. During the three-hour discussion — titled “Loving My Gay Neighbor” — several gender issue researchers and commentators including a former…
CatholicAnchor.org It’s been less than a year since Father Patrick Brosamer was ordained a priest last June at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage. But like many young priests of his generation, he is already taking on major responsibilities, filling in for Father Tom Lilly at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, one of the…
CatholicAnchor.org Regardless of what we believe about sexual morality, those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender must be treated with the dignity and compassion due them as members of the human family. This is without exception and justice demands it. This means we need to speak up for them during family dinners…
CatholicAnchor.org Earlier this year, Father Michael Shields received an invitation to give an eight-day retreat in Rome for nuns of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity congregation. He had no idea that the invite would land him face to face with Pope Francis, in the pontiff’s private chapel. Since the early 1990s Father Shields has served…
Notes there’s ‘something special’ in Anchorage One of the highest ranking clerics in the Catholic Church — Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York — addressed Catholic high school students in Anchorage telling them, “You are worth every ounce of sacrifice” that goes into Catholic education. More than 100 students and faculty members…
Long before changing her name and swapping her wardrobe for a long, white nun’s habit, former Alaskan Rhia Viens, now 30, had an inkling that the religious life might be in her future.
Three young women with a passion for inspiring faith in youth have landed in Alaska to help launch the inaugural season of St. Theresa’s Camp — a Catholic summer camp in the Mat-Su Valley. Thanks to the work of a local non-profit, Southcentral Alaska will again have a vibrant Catholic summer camp for the first time in nearly a quarter century. The last camp on the Kenai Peninsula closed in the early 1990s.
By MARIO BIRD CatholicAnchor.org 700 pack Anchorage parish for public talk Cardinal Timothy Dolan held an estimated 700 Alaskans in rapt attention during a standing room only presentation at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage on March 24. The cardinal archbishop of New York, who often draws comparisons to the late Catholic author and…