LISTEN: St. Vincent de Paul Society featured on Alaska Public Radio
The St. Vincent de Paul Society based out of Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage was highlighted on Alaska Public Radio this week.
EDITOR’S PICKS
Alaska bishops emphasize human dignity as foundation of Catholic moral teachings
The bishops of Alaska released a pastoral letter on Feb. 14 affirming Catholic teaching on human dignity, sanctity of human life, marriage, religious freedom, chastity, and sexual orientation and gender identity.
The light of Christ pierces the thickest darkness
As the plane took off into the night, my heart cried: “Lord why so much darkness, so much hatred of you and yours?” As I prayed the plane rose over the city, I glanced through the small windows and was overwhelmed at the many lights below.
Consider a Lenten partnership with Catholic Social Services
During Lent when we are asked to seek the Lord in prayer and the Scriptures, and to give of ourselves through service and sacrifice. At Catholic Social Services we hope to partner with you in providing a place to share your many gifts
‘I can do military stuff, and be a priest?’
Captain Nicholas Reid is a Catholic priest and Air Force chaplain at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where he was recently transferred. Here he talks about his coming-of-age on a military base in the Bible Belt, his vocation to the Catholic priesthood, and his military chaplaincy.
The brief, fleeting life of prayer
Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot, a Plains Indian who lived in the 1800s, said this: “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
Fr. Clem: Look behind the mirror image
Simply by casual observation over a period of many years, I have become convinced that most people around the world, whatever their culture or human background may be, are each and all instinctively concerned, even deeply anxious about their looks, how they appear bodily or socially in the presence of others.
Archbishop Etienne: Lent is a time for our personal conversion
Over the years, I have noticed that the crowds that attend Mass on Ash Wednesday rival any other day of the year, including Easter and Christmas. This tells us there is something attractive about being called to renew our relationship with God, about the penitential nature of the day and season that is fundamentally about conversion.
Catholic adventurer writes of faith and beauty in the Arctic
Included in the book is the story of a 15-day trip with a close friend, Father Peter Harman, who had been pastor at the cathedral in Springfield where Wilkins is a parishioner. During their Gates of the Arctic trek, the priest would celebrate Mass in the stark wilderness.
Church leaders called to be ‘first responders’ to those suffering from abortion
For some women, an abortion begins a lifetime of shame, regret and unresolved pain. This is especially true for women (and men) of faith. On Jan. 11, priests, deacons and lay Catholics gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Anchorage to learn how to better reach out to those wounded by abortion and its aftermath.