I think of Catholic Social Services as the arms of the parishes here in Anchorage. Each of our programs and services came from people like you seeing need in our community and creating services to help.
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month, and this awareness begins with the knowledge and concern that children, our most precious resource, are being abused and neglected in places around the world.
On March 10 more than 70 Alaskans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church gathered for the call to continuing conversion and the rite of election
When asked why, in light of scandal, Miller would join the Catholic Church, he said “this is the church that Christ founded” and second, because Christ promised “the gates of hell would not prevail against the church until the end of time.”
The long time principal of St. Mary’s School in Kodiak (from 1968 to 2009) traveled from her religious community in Philadelphia in March to El Paso, Texas.
In these days when we are confronted with the sinful reality of the human members of the church, it is comforting to recall the holiness of the church, which is ever present in her divine nature.
My wife Mary and I raised nine children in Alaska. All were baptized in the Catholic faith.
Lumen Christi Catholic High School in Anchorage is looking to hire teachers for the upcoming academic year.
Each year during Lent, Catholic parishes around the world and across Alaska hold Lenten reconciliation services. These include begin public prayer and opportunities to go to individual confession with a priest.
Anchorage Archbishop Paul Etienne is scheduled to participate in the following liturgies and events in April.