It was an April day in 2014, just a few days before Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt would celebrate his 76th birthday. The gunmen’s knock on the door was abrupt. The beating came first, then two bullets to the head. At least once a year, I like to write something about him. The call…
By Anna SchultenThe North Star Catholic The 2020 St. Francis Stewardship Awards were celebrated virtually on October 8, 2020. This year, the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau celebrated 35 individuals for their lives of stewardship to our church and the local community. This celebration completes 15 years of honoring the stewards of our parishes. St. Francis Stewardship…
By Dominique JohnsonThe North Star Catholic With three knocks on the front door of Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral, Archbishop Andrew Bellisario, C.M., was welcomed as the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. The liturgy commenced with the new archdiocese’s inauguration, with the reading of the apostolic mandate from Pope Francis, by Archbishop Christophe…
By Dominique JohnsonThe North Star Catholic With the Catholic Church’s unity in Southern Alaska comes a united Catholic publication to celebrate the Church of the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau, The North Star Catholic. Fifty years ago, Archbishop Francis Hurley began the publication, The Inside Passage, to communicate with the people of the Diocese of Juneau. His…
By Anna SchultenThe North Star Catholic The Seminarian Night Annual Fundraiser, an event founded in 2015, experienced its first virtual iteration this year on August 26. Despite the unexpected change in format, the event was graced with ten speakers, dozens of sponsors, and hundreds of viewers, all from the comfort of their own homes. The…
Catholic Community Service has the great honor to perform corporal works of mercy on behalf of the Catholic church in Southeast Alaska (formerly the Diocese of Juneau). We are excited to introduce ourselves as members of the new Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. We want to share some history and tell you how we have…
Catholic Social Services is excited and honored to serve and be a part of the newly formed Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. Since 1966, Catholic Social Services has served the Anchorage area, working to end homelessness, combat hunger insecurity, and welcome the stranger. Although our services are centered in Anchorage, I believe that we help many, far…
Even in this time of uncertainty that individuals, communities and the world face, we have been given hope in a new Archdiocese. I am thankful for what the people of the Archdiocese of Anchorage and the Diocese of Juneau have been able to celebrate. We have become a new community of faith. The worldwide Catholic…
Matteo Ricci, a 16th-century Jesuit, told the story of two men walking together. One of the men was extremely rich and one was extremely poor.A passerby commented, “Those two men are very close friends,” to which an ancient sage was said to have replied, “If that is true, then why is one of them rich…
CatholicAnchor.org Since the last article in June presenting questions and answers about the transition to our new Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau, announced by Pope Francis on May 29, 2020, some new information and questions have appeared that seemed to call for another article on this subject. As you will see, some aspects of this transition have…