CatholicAnchor.org People outside Russia usually ask me how and what I am doing. I then give a litany of what we are doing, leaving out what we should be doing and our failures. At the end of the conversation I run to the nearest priest to confess the sin of exaggerating in order to look…
CatholicAnchor.org Each Christmas Catholic Social Services (CSS) has a “Helping Holiday” project where local individuals and organizations provide Christmas gifts for families served by CSS. Today I received a touching thank you note from a family in our Homeless Family Services program that benefited from our Helping Holiday project. The head of this family is…
CatholicAnchor.org I’m probably preaching to the choir here, suggesting an Alaskan book to a readership of Alaskans who have no doubt devoured this book by now. But if somewhere on the Last Frontier there’s a person who has not read, “Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier,” do…
CatholicAnchor.org From what I was later told regarding the following event, it probably happened on a cold November weekday in the year 1924. The setting was a country church named Saint Henry in rural North Dakota. The event was a christening ceremony. Seemingly, there was a certain urgency about occasion and the ritual about…
CatholicAnchor.org I serve as a Catholic priest in a country that suffered under Communist materialism where God was an enemy of the state, the church needed destroying and faith in Christ was considered no better than superstition. For nearly a century, Christians across the world have offered prayers for the conversion of Russia. Is it…
CatholicAnchor.org My daughter Elizabeth has a home in a charming little town near Philadelphia. One drawback, however, are East Coast squirrels. As a former Alaskan, I know that those in the Last Frontier take pride in size, especially when it comes to conversing with Texans. If it comes down to it, Alaskans will even…