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?
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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.”
Defending human sexuality amid mass confusion
As people of faith, we are called to unconditionally love those who suffer from a sexual identity crisis, listen to their struggle and lighten their burden however we can. Where friendship, prayer and counsel are needed we must step up. Christ would have no less.
How can I believe in God amid so much suffering?
Those who doubt the existence or goodness of God as affirmed by Christians often point to all the suffering in the world. How can God be compassionate if he allows suffering? How can he be a mighty God if he can’t end suffering?
Catholic Social Services: 50 years of help & hope in Alaska
Starting as a small food pantry on 3rd Avenue, we have at our root addressing family struggling with poverty and homelessness in Anchorage. Last month Effie Caldarola wrote a wonderful piece in this paper chronicling the history of Catholic Social Services.
Harnessing retirement to serve the poor
I realize many older Catholics find plenty of ways to give back without joining an organization. But the upsides of IVC or EnCorps include forming community with other volunteers, retreats, and a chance to expand Ignatian education and values like simple living.
Rethinking how to share truth
In this prolific age of the spoken and written word we are literally and constantly being shouted at, abraded, challenged, disputed and queried. Particularly, during this season of political discontent, for instance, so many seem to be lunging at one another’s throats to establish a particular unassailable opinion or position. Human discourse today seems to have a raw edge to it.
Letters to the Editor: Miracles at Mass/ Catholic voting
The following letters to the editor were recently published in the Catholic Anchor.