On August 15, Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God.
Many Catholic parents, like Owens, home-school in order to cultivate the Catholic faith in their children. They believe children need time in the nurturing environment of home to develop the virtues necessary to become good citizens and most importantly, to reach heaven.
Spencer drew from the blessings she found in being adopted as she mad the choice for her unborn child to have two stable parents and a future she could not have provided as an unwed teen.
Increasingly, Mat-Su Valley parents are choosing Catholic schooling for their children, which means Our Lady of the Valley School in Wasilla is growing. Beginning with 22 students in 2012, enrollment has steadily risen and now stands at 73 and counting for the upcoming academic year.
CatholicAnchor.org Below are news briefs and upcoming events from across the Anchorage Archdiocese. Annual Friar’s Fest set for downtown cathedral Aug. 13 Saturday, Aug. 13, will be a festive day at Holy Family Cathedral as parishioners and guests celebrate the 5th Annual Friars’ Fest in the parish courtyard. This year’s festival will mark the 800th…
Crossing mountain passes, hopping giant boulders and trekking across two ancient glaciers, 16 Catholic men marched into Alaska’s backcountry seeking God, friendship and adventure.
“At the Mass when this was announced, so many incredibly nice things were said, like what is said for somebody once they die,” Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz observed. “It was very nice hearing these things while I am still alive.”
In the media kerfuffle that followed, the Supreme Court’s recent 5-3 decision in Whole Women’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, which overturned Texas’ law requiring abortionists to have hospital privileges, among other things, I received an email from an American Catholic politico lamenting the ruling.
Father McGilloway, a 51-year-old former Benedictine, spent years of his ministry at two places steeped in legendary Irish beauty, Glenstal Abbey in Murroe, County Limerick, and Kylemore Abbey in County Galway.
By striking down the law Justice Stowers, in his dissent, said the court has indicated that “no parental notification law recognizing parents’ fundamental legal rights to notification of, much less meaningful involvement in, their minor daughters’ decisions to have abortions will be upheld by this court…”