Editor’s note: Last May Catholic Social Services Executive Director Susan Bomalaski announced that she was planning to step down after serving in her post for nine years. Her successor, Lisa DH Aquino, was recently hired by the CSS Board of Trustees and will continue providing a column on social justice from Catholic Social Services. This is her first.
CatholicAnchor.org Anchorage attorney, convert to Catholicism and Holy Family Cathedral parishioner Tara Clemens has finally been able to enter the Corpus Christi Monastery, a Dominican religious cloister in Menlo Park, Ca. The mission of the cloistered Dominican nuns is to honor and promote devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Writing in the cathedral’s…
CatholicAnchor.org Editor’s note: The following is a list of events and liturgies planned across the Anchorage Archdiocese in the month of December. Events are in Anchorage unless noted. Sundays, 11 a.m., Mass, AK Native Medical Center Sundays, 4 p.m., Dominican Rite Mass, Cathedral Sundays (2nd & 4th of the month), 7-9 p.m., Sacred Harp choral…
CatholicAnchor.org Editor’s note: The following is a list of some of the engagements, public events and liturgies on Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz’s December calendar. All events are in Anchorage unless noted. Dec. 4, 9 a.m., Mass, Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 11, 9 a.m., Mass, Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 12, 5:30 p.m., Mass of…
One thought, among many others that interested me, was their proposition that all matter in the universe, from planets to humans, is intricately bound together and has been so since that moment in infinity when God set all existence into being. In short, all things in the universe are intricately joined. We bear within us molecules of stardust.
CatholicAnchor.org Editor’s note: The following is the Thanksgiving proclamation issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789. Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and…
Business owners, nonprofit workers and others packed the city council chambers in Nome, Alaska, to voice opposition to a proposal that would have ended sales tax exemptions for churches and nonprofits. As a result of the packed meeting, Nome’s nonprofits and churches will remain exempt from city sales tax.
CatholicAnchor.org Juneau Bishop Edwards Burns lead a group of Alaskan pilgrims to the hometown of an Italian priest who traveled to Alaska in the late 1800s to bring the Catholic faith to far-flung villages. Read the account of their pilgrimage here.
The next time you hear of a designation for a problem faced in our world, ask yourself, “What can I learn about this problem? What is my role to make a positive step to solving this problem?” The first step may be simply to challenge an attitude in yourself or someone else.
Openness to life involves suffering with happiness. In our family’s case, the suffering usually has a name: cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that occurs when both parents pass on the mutated gene to their child. This occurs at the moment of conception and is a one in four chance with each pregnancy. It has happened to my husband and me twice with seven children. Some have wondered why we would bring more children into the world to suffer and die but the truth is that every single person is born to a life of joys, sufferings, then death.