CatholicAnchor.org In an effort to solidify relationships that have provided the Anchorage Archdiocese with much needed priests and religious, Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz visited South Korea earlier this spring. His travels took him to the Diocese of Cheongju, which has sent priests and religious sisters to serve the Anchorage Korean Catholic Community for many years….
CatholicAnchor.org Earlier this year, Father Michael Shields received an invitation to give an eight-day retreat in Rome for nuns of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity congregation. He had no idea that the invite would land him face to face with Pope Francis, in the pontiff’s private chapel. Since the early 1990s Father Shields has served…
CatholicAnchor.org Michael Lucas defeated hundreds of young wrestlers on his way to becoming a national champion this past March. Having just completed 8th grade at Holy Rosary Academy in Anchorage, Lucas’ success on the mat is a continuation of his wrestling dominance the past five years in Alaska. Lucas recently traveled to Virginia Beach to…
CatholicAnchor.org After living as an atheist lesbian, Melinda Selmys converted to Catholicism and has authored several books, including “Sexual Authenticity: An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality and Catholicism.” She writes and speaks regularly about issues pertaining to the church and the LGBTQ community. In May she traveled to Alaska in order to participate in two public…
Notes there’s ‘something special’ in Anchorage One of the highest ranking clerics in the Catholic Church — Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York — addressed Catholic high school students in Anchorage telling them, “You are worth every ounce of sacrifice” that goes into Catholic education. More than 100 students and faculty members…
Once every three months, I spend an evening driving with a chaplain to Nebraska’s death row. The chaplain, a woman who is a spiritual director to a death row inmate, organizes the group visit and submits our names.
Long before changing her name and swapping her wardrobe for a long, white nun’s habit, former Alaskan Rhia Viens, now 30, had an inkling that the religious life might be in her future.
Three young women with a passion for inspiring faith in youth have landed in Alaska to help launch the inaugural season of St. Theresa’s Camp — a Catholic summer camp in the Mat-Su Valley. Thanks to the work of a local non-profit, Southcentral Alaska will again have a vibrant Catholic summer camp for the first time in nearly a quarter century. The last camp on the Kenai Peninsula closed in the early 1990s.
By MARIO BIRD CatholicAnchor.org 700 pack Anchorage parish for public talk Cardinal Timothy Dolan held an estimated 700 Alaskans in rapt attention during a standing room only presentation at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage on March 24. The cardinal archbishop of New York, who often draws comparisons to the late Catholic author and…
Says transparency, compassion and God’s grace are keys to a culture of respect Catholic Archbishop Roger Schwietz of the Anchorage Archdiocese led an annual march through the state’s largest city calling for an end to domestic violence and abuse. Several hundred people attended, including Catholics from the archdiocese. The March 27 event was part of…