News & Events across the Anchorage Archdiocese
Here is an overview of local events and news briefs from across the Anchorage Archdiocese.
Answering the challenge to help those with disabilities & their families
Family Disability Services is a very special program of CSS that supports and serves individuals and families with special needs. You may have known it previously as our Respite Program. It provides services for children and adults with developmental disabilities and offers support for their families.
Don’t let regrets linger
If you were presented with a time travel machine, in which you could journey back and forth to moments in your life, would you travel back and change anything? It’s a preposterous but intriguing question, and it came up at a family birthday party. By the time the conversation ended I realized the discussion became less about science fiction and a little bit more about our spirituality and themes of guilt and regret.
May Calendar Events
Here is a list of upcoming liturgies and other events scheduled across the month of May in the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
Archbishop’s May Calendar
Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz is scheduled to participate and/or attend these events in the month of May.
Six new deacons should ‘hit the ground running’
After five years of formation, six men are on the cusp of the moment when Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz will lay his hands on their heads, invoke the Holy Spirit and ordain them permanent deacons for the service of the church. Family members, friends, priests, religious and fellow deacons are expected to pack Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral on May 1 at 7 p.m. to witness the ordinations.
Vatican approves laicization of former priest of Anchorage Archdiocese
Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz announced that J. Michael Hornick, formerly a priest of the Anchorage Archdiocese has been laicized and has lost his rights and obligations as a cleric for the Roman Catholic Church. The announcement came on April 29 after the Vatican approved the removal of J. Michael Hornick from all priestly duties.
Outgoing principal sees morality, character formation as strength of Catholic schooling
Joy is a word Bailey uses frequently to describe the highlights of his time at the school. Of the things he is most proud of, the spirit of love and inclusiveness among the students is one of them. Normally soft-spoken, Bailey’s voice lowered a bit more when he describes how two students with muscular dystrophy have found nothing but support and acceptance at the school.
Anchorage mayoral candidates debate religious freedom, sexual-identity legislation
In a debate before the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, candidates Ethan Berkowitz and Amy Demboski were sharply divided on the question of whether Anchorage should adapt legislation to establish sexual orientation and transgender identity as protected classes under the city’s nondiscrimination laws.