Bazaars boost Catholic parishes, schools & outreaches
From early October until Christmas, there are opportunities in several parishes to find unique items, sample various cuisines and support the necessary work that is partly funded by these events.
At pallium Mass archbishop called to unity, love, courage
“May this pallium be a symbol of unity and a sign of your communion with the Apostolic See, a bond of love, and an incentive to courage.”
This was the prayer and message of Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Pope Francis’ apostolic nuncio to the United States, as he imposed the wool pallium on Anchorage Archbishop Paul Etienne.
Please don’t be shy in promoting our safe environment policies
That comment reveals just how difficult it is to change a culture, even if policy improves people’s lives, because a new policy can challenge an old way of thinking about something that has been part of the culture for years.
Pray for the hungry, then offer them food
Let us remember a recent teaching from Pope Francis: “You pray for the hungry, then you feed them. That is how prayer works.”
Tracing Jesus’ old stomping grounds
My “go-to” book was a good but lengthy choice: “Jesus, A Pilgrimage,” by Jesuit Father James Martin. I find his books rarely disappoint.
There is freedom to be found from porn addiction
Among Christians, 47 percent claim pornography is a major problem in the home. On one porn site in one year people watched 4,392,486,580 hours of pornography. That is the equivalent of every person on the earth watching 12 porn videos.
‘Where is your brother?’
Let us assume, for the sake of illustration, that two inhabitants of Enceladus, a small planet in the rings of Saturn, should, by some strange coincidence, find themselves standing on a busy street corner in New York.
Local tribunal examines validity of Alaska marriages
Although a tribunal can deal with any matter of canon law, Father Travers said “99.9 percent” of the issues brought before the Archdiocese of Anchorage tribunal are questions of marriage validity.
With ‘students bleeding out from faith,’ young Alaskan responds
Leiner said that in the 18-24 year age bracket, 80 percent of young adults will leave the faith. And that doesn’t apply just to Catholics. Most mainline Christian faiths are experiencing what Leiner describes as “students bleeding out from faith.”
Archbishop makes inaugural visit to Bush Alaska
Anchorage Archbishop Paul Etienne was installed as archbishop of Anchorage just eight months ago. As part of an ongoing effort to visit parishioners across his 138,000-square-mile archdiocese, he boarded several planes, including a small two-seater, and flew to the hinterlands of North America.