Sometimes mercy requires a hug
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.
Alaskan-raised nun relates joy of religious calling
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.
Young women bring a passion for Catholic camps to Alaska
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.
Cardinal tells Alaskans of top challenges for the church
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…
Archbishop leads Anchorage march to end domestic violence & abuse
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…
Parish continues summer outreach of feeding Anchorage youth
On any given summer day dozens of neighborhood children gather at St. Anthony Church in Anchorage for lunch and playtime on the parish’s expansive green lawn and parking lot. Games and free play often follow a hastily eaten meal, sometimes organized by teens from the south Mountain View parish and other youth volunteers. Beginning its…
May – July What’s Happening
Tickets on sale for CSS fund-raiser ball On May 10, at 6 p.m., Catholic Social Services will host its annual Wilma Carr Charity Ball, the largest annual fund-raiser for the social services arm of the Archdiocese of Anchorage. This year’s ball will take place at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage with the theme “Hollywood…
Archbishop’s May 2014 Calendar
May 5, 6:30 p.m., Confirmations (combined liturgy) for St. Patrick’s & St. Anthony’s, St. Patrick May 6, 7 p.m., Confirmations (combined liturgy) for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Benedict, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton May 7, 7 p.m., Confirmations, St. Andrew, Eagle River May 8, 6 p.m., Confirmations, Sacred Heart, Wasilla May 9, Apostolic admin….
Singing Irish monk returns to Alaska seeking to call it home
After spending a sabbatical here in 2009, Benedictine Father Joseph McGilloway of Ireland has returned to Alaska hoping to make the Far North home. With the permission of his abbot of Glendal Abbey in Limerick and Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage, the 48-year-old monk and priest arrived back in Alaska on March 5 “to see…
Cardinal Dolan: Alaska church suggests the future of U.S. Catholicism
A leading voice of the Catholic Church sees Alaska as where the rest of the U.S. church may be heading in the future. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, stopped in Anchorage March 24-26 to spend three days teaching, celebrating liturgies and inspiring Alaskan clergy during the annual priest convocation. During his visit, he…