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State Department: Nuclear weapons still issue
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state and lead U.S. negotiator of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, has been spending time on Catholic university campuses lately.
Flags for peace
Students in third grade at St. Edward School in Little Rock display the prayer flags they made for International Peace Day, which was Sept. 21. (Parish News photo)
Sister Mary Jane was a teacher and sub-prioress
Sister Mary Jane Fladung, OSB, formerly known as Sister Mary James, 87, of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, died Sept. 22 in Olathe, Kan.
Irish archbishops visit Rome to prepare Vatican probe into abuse
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Irish archbishops will travel to Rome in early October to meet with Vatican officials about the apostolic visitation of their dioceses ordered by Pope Benedict XVI in response to the priestly sexual abuse scandal, the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference announced.
Catholics are average in religious literacy
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics know about as much as Americans in general about religion, getting right only half of the 32 questions in a survey for the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Year after year, RCIA a worthy journey of faith
RCIA — the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults — has begun again. I’m glad. (Columns)
‘Sit up and think’ during Respect Life Month
“Sit up and think.” This is what British Prime Minister David Cameron said Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 16-19 visit to Great Britain should cause the people of his nation to do. (Opinions)
‘40 Days’ both faithful and successful
“God has not called me to be successful; he has called me to be faithful.” The pro-life supporters who pray in front of the abortion clinic in Little Rock and the Planned Parenthood clinic in Fayetteville understand this statement attributed to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. (Editorial)
