School thanks pastor for renovations

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…

Just war revisited and revitalized

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”…

The bulletin boards of our lives

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.

Pentecost 1 was 13.8 billion years ago

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.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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…

‘Why Catholic?’ programs get boost with national speaker’s visit

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…

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