St. Benedict Church in Anchorage is hosting a six-day mission, Oct. 18-23, with Dr. Bob Schihl, the founder and director of the innovative website CatholicApologitics.org, which offers college-level courses in church history, theology and apologetics. The mission is open to the general public.
This year Our Lady of the Valley Catholic School in Wasilla is piloting a new curriculum for the 4th and 5th grades, as it discerns whether to implement a classical approach to education throughout the K-8th grade school.
The school was founded eight years ago but with a change in administration last year, the school was at a natural point to pilot a new curriculum approach, said acting Principal Joyce Lund.
“A number of schools, private and even diocesan schools are finding growth and enthusiasm in the rediscovery of rigorous, classical liberal arts curriculum,” she said, noting that over the last 15 years classics-based schools have seen rapid expansion.
“Islam: Friend or Foe,” was the headline that drew nearly 50 attendees to a banquet room of the Sea Galley Restaurant in Anchorage earlier this fall. The speaker, popular Catholic scholar, writer and teacher Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio, was in Anchorage to kick off this year’s Theology & Brew monthly speaker series for young adults in the Anchorage Archdiocese.
I don’t hear our Catholic leaders pointing out that requiring Catholics to finance immoral foreign policies violates our religious freedom. Just this century alone, we’ve been forced to help finance the breaking of several of God’s 10 Commandments.
Dr. Doris Gunderson, a leading expert on the social and psychological impact of marijuana use, will be in Anchorage later this month to speak with medical providers, priests and others on issues related to the legalization of marijuana. During her talk, Gunderson will present findings from several studies on the impact of legalizing recreational marijuana in Colorado, her home state, and will discuss the psychiatric impact of the drug.
The co-founder of the international 40 Days for Life campaign of prayer to end abortion will be in Anchorage for a special rally on Saturday, Oct. 4.
CatholicAnchor.org This talk talk was given on Aug. 28, 2014 by missionary priest to Far East Siberia Fr. Michael Shields. He spoke on the topic of ongoing conversion at St. Andrew Church in Eagle River Alaska.
In a talk given Aug. 28 at St. Andrew Church in Eagle River, Father Michael Shields explains why Christianity is really the cure for a deadly disease — a virus that all humanity suffers from.
Here is a list of some of the events and liturgies which Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz is scheduled to attend this month.
Here is a listing of some upcoming events this month from around the Anchorage Archdiocese.