Lea Bouton, a current teacher at Lumen Christi High School (LCHS) in Anchorage, made the gift of donating her kidney to her former student, Jesse Batac in July 2025, saving his life. When Bouton met Batac nearly ten years ago he was a 10th grade student in two…
Sr. Jean Rhoads is not one to shy away from adventure, and on May 27, 2025 she began a new one, arriving in Alaska for the first time. It is Sr. Jean’s 50th year as a Daughter of Charity, and, while Alaska is a popular tourist destination for those celebrating milestone anniversaries, Sr. Jean didn’t…
Originally printed in the June 2025 issue This is the first in a series of articles highlighting thrift stores in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. Thrift stores are a relatively new invention in the history of human societies. The reason is simple, historian Susan Strasser in her book Waste & Want explains, “until the second half…