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Visitor received with joy by Native Alaskans

by | Oct 11, 2022 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

While on an immersion and service trip to the tiny, remote village of Galena, Alaska, Dianne LaScotte approached an older resident outside St. John Berchman church to thank her for sharing her life story at a parish event. The woman, an elder in the Athabascan Indian community to which most of the village’s 470 residents belong, responded with curiosity, “Why are you here?”

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When stupidity is behind the wheel, Lord, have mercy

by | Oct 20, 2020 | , , , , , | 0 |

I was 23 and on my way to graduate school in Alaska. The plan was to drive from Minnesota to Washington, put my car on a ferry in Bellingham, take that for three days through the Inland Passage, disembark in Haines, Alaska, and then drive two more days along the Al-Can, through the Yukon mountain range, the interior of Alaska, and then into Anchorage. In a hatchback. In 1990, when hundreds of miles of the Al-Can remained unpaved.

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Northwest bishops experience encouragement, fraternity, unity with pope

by | Feb 3, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Bishops from the northwestern United States spent more than two and half hours with Pope Francis and came away talking about his small gestures and, especially, his understanding and encouragement.

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