Archbishop Schwietz’s July Calendar
Below are the scheduled liturgies and other events that Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz is scheduled to participate in during the month of July.
EDITOR’S PICKS
How can you believe in a church filled with scandal?
How can Christianity and the Catholic Church be true and yet containing so many scandals and injustices?
Anchor awarded at Alaska Press Club’s annual media gathering
The only faith-based news outlet in the Alaska Press Club, the Catholic Anchor nevertheless continued its long tradition of being honored at the annual journalism conference.
Help us create personal connections for Anchorage’s most vulnerable
Many people who seek our services, in short or long term crisis, come through our doors because they have not found connection and support in other parts of their lives. We have many services built around personal connections aimed at creating a stable base for a hopeful future.
Afraid of the other, Christ was not
A recent Omaha news story told about a young attorney in a tiny rural Nebraska town who is remodeling the upper floors of a building that houses his law practice. To his amazement, in the crawl space of the attic, workmen found an old, musty smelling box containing over 30 Ku Klux Klan outfits dating back to the organization’s Nebraska heyday in the 1920s.
A thanks to advertisers for vital role in Catholic Anchor’s success
The Catholic Anchor would like to thank the many Alaska businesses that advertise with us online and in print. We rely heavily on your financial support to maintain and improve this award-winning Alaska newspaper. There are very few faith-based media outlets in the state and the Catholic Anchor is by far the largest and most widely circulated.
Better to talk out your differences
For those who like to reminisce on bygone Hollywood films, let me call to mind one that still occasionally raises social controversy. The year was 1967 and the film was “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Katherine Houghton. The plot concerns the Draytons, a wealthy, white, Catholic, California family who pride themselves in being “sixties liberals.”
Pro-woman, Pro-life: Group empowers ‘abortion-vulnerable’ Alaskan women
“They might be thinking, ‘I’m going to keep this baby,’” Harriman explained. “But they can walk out of here, and once they tell the news to their parents or to the father, the influences that start coming into their life can really cause them to think differently or make them feel like they don’t have a choice or they need to do what they’re being pressured to do.”
Longtime cathedral parishioner left legacy of prayer in Alaska
For years the tall, dignified and white haired Wichorek drove to Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Anchorage before the start of noon Mass. There he led parishioners in the rosary — a prayer he said nearly every day of his life while meditating on the mysteries of the life of Jesus …
Alaska Byzantine Catholics have new bishop
Pope Francis named a new bishop to oversee many of the Eastern rite Catholics located across the West Coast, including in Alaska.