By Marcy AdkinsThe North Star Catholic Saint Benedict Parish was founded in 1966 and is located in southwest Anchorage. We are a parish of 640 families who are very active in our faith and our community. We are a home for large and well-established Samoan and Filipino communities. If there were only one word to…
By Deacon Dave Van TuylThe North Star Catholic On Friday evening, April 16th, Archbishop Andrew Bellisario, C.M. celebrated Mass and presided at the Rite of Lector for the four candidates for ordination to the Permanent Diaconate in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. John Ostrom (St. Patrick’s, Anchorage), Don Remer (St. Andrew’s, Eagle River), Jon Agosti (St….
A total of nine students will graduate from Lumen Christi High School and Holy Rosary Academy this spring. Congratulations to our graduates! We wish you the very best in your endeavors. Senior Profiles: Lumen Christi High School Mary Baker was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and moved to Anchorage in 7th grade. She started attending Lumen…
By Father Mike GalbraithThe North Star Catholic St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church is located in the Mendenhall Valley, twelve miles north of Juneau, Alaska, in the Southeastern Panhandle. The original church was first established and built in 1962 as a mission of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in downtown…
By Kara MoriartyThe North Star Catholic Lumen Christi, one of the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau’s Catholic schools, won the Class 1A Boys Basketball Championship in Palmer on April 3. This was the first championship for the Archangels since 2004, and the first for Lumen in Class 1A. For the first time in school history, both the…
By Renamary RauchensteinThe North Star Catholic St. Bernard of Menthon Parish is in Talkeetna, on the parks highway north of Anchorage and Wasilla. The parish consists of St. Bernard in Talkeetna and its mission church, St. Philip, in Trapper Creek. St. Bernard was built in 1969. Our congregation has about 25 families in each church,…
By Don Koenigsand Father Steve GallagherThe North Star Catholic Catherine of Siena Catholic Parish is located on Mitkof Island in the panhandle of Southeast Alaska in the community of Petersburg. The community was established in 1910 by Norwegian fishermen. In 1939 the Catholic Extension Society constructed the first church to serve approximately 50 Catholics. Mass…
By Brian RossLumen Christi High School principal “The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God.” This quote from Saint Gregory the Great adorns the main hallway at Lumen Christi Catholic High School in Anchorage, where reproductions of the “Virtue Series” by Giotto di Bondone surround Lumen students as they walk to and…
By Mary Beth BragielThe North Star Catholic What do you know about Divine Mercy? When you hear that expression, do you picture Jesus with red and white rays coming from His Heart? Do you think of the phrase, “Jesus, I trust in You”? Have you heard of it, but don’t really know what it is?…
By Father Pat TraversVicar General, Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau On the Feast of the Holy Family last December, Pope Francis asked Catholics throughout the world to celebrate a year of reflection on the family inspired by the teachings he offered five years ago in his 2016 Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The “Amoris Laetitia Family Year” will…