In response to the thoughtful article from the April issue regarding the question of cell phones at Mass, I offer the following question: Couldn’t all the benefits of accessing the net during Holy Mass be gained simply by looking up the readings before Mass begins?
We would like to welcome Deacon Arthur Roraff to our parish, St. Andrew Church in Eagle River. We look forward to your pastoral guidance and new enthusiasm of entering into the priesthood.
The following reader responses were published in the April issue of the Catholic Anchor.
The Catholic Anchor welcomes letters to the editor. The following letters appear in our March issue.
The Catholic Anchor welcomes letters to the editor. Here are some letters which appeared in the latest issue of the Catholic Anchor.
Readers weigh in on vandalism at Anchorage’s Holy Family Cathedral, the bi-partisan fight for unborn rights and the recent visit to Alaska by Pope Francis’ top ranking ambassador to the United States.
One letter this month address how abortion support among some Catholics wounds the wider church. Another letter relates the inspiration one deacon received upon reading about how Deacon Curt Luenberger faced an illness that brought him to the brink of death.
In a robbery, a person who plans the robbery is considered just as guilty under the law as the robber himself. A Catholic who votes for, advocates, counsels or in any manner assists in or approves of the committing of abortions is likewise an accomplice to the action. The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes…
It saddened my heart to read that Alaska’s U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, both baptized Catholics, voted for a failed measure that would have forced employers to follow the federal HHS mandate requiring them to provide, as part of employee health insurance policies, contraception, sterilization and abortion inducing drugs, regardless of the employer’s…
What does “develop” church teaching mean? What part of the just war doctrine needs to be developed? What does that development consist of? Should church teaching conform to our politics or should our politics conform to church teaching?