CatholicAnchor.org On a recent evening in Anchorage, about 200 people of varying politics attended a town hall forum on how Christians should engage the public on LGBTQ — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning — issues. During the three-hour discussion — titled “Loving My Gay Neighbor” — several gender issue researchers and commentators including a former…
CatholicAnchor.org It’s been less than a year since Father Patrick Brosamer was ordained a priest last June at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage. But like many young priests of his generation, he is already taking on major responsibilities, filling in for Father Tom Lilly at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, one of the…
CatholicAnchor.org For the fifth straight year, a group of Catholic men, joined by several priests, will don heavy backpacks and head into an Alaska mountain range. The three-day trek, beginning on Sunday, July 13 and concluding on Tuesday, July 15, is known as the “Fathers’ Hike.” The informal adventure is a chance for men to…
CatholicAnchor.org Many young adult Catholics drift from the faith of their childhood upon leaving home. Eagle Eye Alaska is an innovative annual hike and retreat that takes young adults into Alaska’s backcountry in an effort to inspire and reconnect young adults to the practices, sacraments and prayers of the Catholic faith. “After spending the first…
CatholicAnchor.org 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…
CatholicAnchor.org Juniors and seniors at Holy Rosary Academy in Anchorage continued the annual spring tradition of publicly defending philosophical thesis papers. The practice explores moral and philosophical dilemmas and resembles thesis defenses that many students are required to give in college. Each year juniors and seniors at Holy Rosary must develop an original philosophical thesis…
CatholicAnchor.org Immersion in the Catholic faith has defined the education of Holy Rosary Academy graduates Jacob Owens and Justin Klump. The two young men comprised the 2014 graduating class of the small K-12th-grade Anchorage school. On May 20, the graduates were surrounded by family, friends and educators at the baccalaureate liturgy in St. Nicholas of…
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”…