CatholicAnchor.org Moments before receiving their high school diplomas, the six graduating seniors from Lumen Christi High School were urged to seek God, to be humble enough to really know themselves and to remember their Catholic roots as they head off into the wider world. Lumen Christi, which serves grades 8-12, hosted its 16th annual commencement…
CatholicAnchor.org Staff and students of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in Anchorage presented Father Tom Lilly with a surprise gift on April 30 to show gratitude for his leadership in the renovation of their school building. Father Lilly is pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, which sponsors the K-6th grade school. Last year the…
CatholicAnchor.org (The Catholic Difference) Every once in a while, a truly special book comes down the theological pike: a book both scholarly and well-written, a book that stretches the imagination, a book that changes the state of a discussion, if it’s taken with the seriousness it deserves. The late Servais Pinckaers’ “Sources of Christian Ethics”…
CatholicAnchor.org As a reader of the Catholic Anchor you are a key stakeholder of Catholic Social Services (CSS), and many of you are supportive of me personally. Because of these relationships I want to let you know about my plans to transition from CSS where I have served as executive director for more than eight…
A bulletin board is like a mini-archaeological dig into a person’s life and values. A good bulletin board — or maybe it’s your refrigerator door, or for those organized types, a scrapbook — should change often. It should be organic and evolving.
So what’s on my bulletin board? Lots of family pictures, of course, from various occasions and years, some of them of little folks long grown. Those never fail to tug at my heartstrings.
Readers and friends: The explosive Feast of Pentecost will be upon us soon. I use that word explosive deliberately because that is exactly what happened. Scripture tells us that on the 50th day after the Resurrection of Jesus an event occurred in Jerusalem that could only be described as the Spirit’s descent in wind and fire. That’s a fact.
CatholicAnchor.org Where are the Christians? I like that the U.S. Congress opens with a prayer and that “In God We Trust” still survives in print on our money. However, recent news reports seem to suggest that Christian values are fading when the reflex too often is to kill. When one state passes a law enabling…
CatholicAnchor.org Regardless of what we believe about sexual morality, those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender must be treated with the dignity and compassion due them as members of the human family. This is without exception and justice demands it. This means we need to speak up for them during family dinners…
CatholicAnchor.org Gov. Sean Parnell signed legislation April 17 to prohibit Alaska abortion practitioners from being reimbursed by the state for performing so called “elective” abortions that are not necessary to preserve the life or physical health of the mother. The legislation underwent a series of contentious hearings before final passage and it failed to draw…
CatholicAnchor.org “Why Catholic?,” a scriptural and catechetical program for parish small groups presented by Renew International, has experienced increasing popularity since beginning two years ago in the Archdiocese of Anchorage. The program received a boost in May when Franciscan Sister Maureen Colleary visited for five days, giving mini-retreats in several archdiocesan parishes. Sister Colleary serves…