Alaska Catholic family festival in Chugiak Oct. 8-9
Coming to Birchwood Camp in Chugiak Oct. 8-9 is the “Fall Family Faith Festival.” Part retreat, part recreational outing, the event aims to bring Catholics together to celebrate faith and family.
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Former Planned Parenthood director to speak at Alaska Right to Life
Alaska Right to Life is hosting a former Planned Parenthood clinic director for four nights as part of their annual Fall Banquet series. Pro-life activist Abby Johnson will speak at venues in Kenai, Anchorage, Palmer and Fairbanks.
Alaskans return tried and tested from World Youth Day
As a new school year begins for teenagers across Alaska, so do tales of new jobs, family vacations and summer adventures. Amidst all the chatter, a small number of students will be recollecting their recent pilgrimage halfway across the world with millions of other young Catholics.
Former Alaskan airman & would-be dad tells how he gave it up for priesthood
As an intelligence officer in the Air Force and with a desire to marry and have children, Father Tom Lilly wasn’t planning to become a Catholic priest.
UAA journalism major explores faith in senior project – set to intern with Catholic Anchor
Growing up, I loathed going to Mass at St. Paul Church in Juneau. This began to change, however, during my sophomore year of college at University of Alaska, Fairbanks when I began attending a …
Anchorage seminarian on home stretch to the priesthood
For the second time in three summers, the Archdiocese of Anchorage will ordain a seminarian to the transitional diaconate which precedes his ordination to the Catholic priesthood. Fifth year seminarian Robert Whitney will receive the sacrament of holy orders on June 3, 7 p.m., at Holy Family Cathedral. The tentative date for his ordination to the priesthood is just over a year later, June 23, 2017.