Organizers for this
year’s 40 Days for Life pro-life prayer vigil in Anchorage are hoping for a
large turnout at the final day of the campaign on April 14.
That night, from 6
p.m. to midnight, pro-life advocates will gather for a peaceful candlelight vigil
outside the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on 4001 East Lake Otis Parkway.
These upcoming Holy Week and Easter liturgies are scheduled across the Anchorage Archdiocese. Call the parishes for more information.
The trek is an informal retreat for Catholic men, or men interested in Catholicism, who would like to strengthen their commitment to the vocation of fatherhood and family.
Anchorage Archbishop Paul Etienne hopes for a large turnout during the Chrism Mass, a profoundly sacred liturgy, with roots in antiquity and hopes in eternity.
On April 11 Dominican Father Dominic David Miachrowicz will look at Christ’s most demanding moral teaching, which many dismiss as impossible and even absurd, rather than the foundation of Christian morality.
“Unplanned” was among the top five films in the country last week and is now showing in 1,700 theaters around the country including in Anchorage, Wasilla and Fairbanks.
On March 10 more than 70 Alaskans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church gathered for the call to continuing conversion and the rite of election
When asked why, in light of scandal, Miller would join the Catholic Church, he said “this is the church that Christ founded” and second, because Christ promised “the gates of hell would not prevail against the church until the end of time.”
The long time principal of St. Mary’s School in Kodiak (from 1968 to 2009) traveled from her religious community in Philadelphia in March to El Paso, Texas.
In these days when we are confronted with the sinful reality of the human members of the church, it is comforting to recall the holiness of the church, which is ever present in her divine nature.