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UA students aid Belizan children with construction projects
FAYETTEVILLE — College students from St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish traveled south for their spring break but their destination was Belize, not the beach, and they mixed things like concrete, not drinks. (News)

Praying for the unborn
Catholics in central Arkansas gather in front of Little Rock Family Planning Services, the only surgical abortion clinic in the state, April 17 for the closing of the Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign. (News photo)

Rumors: Was President Lincoln ever a Catholic?
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — Was Abraham Lincoln a Catholic? As the sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War is being marked, attention is being focused on Lincoln, whose time in the White House was bounded by the start of the war April 12, 1861, and his assassination April 14, 1865, just days after its end. (News)

Super readers
Mark Tyler, principal of St. John School in Russellville, dons a Superman costume as part of an agreement he made with the students. (News photo)

New Catholics 2011
Catholic churches across the state will welcome 511 new Catholics into the Church during the Easter vigil on Holy Saturday, April 23. (News)

Deacon’s Stations of Cross are ’prayer molded into clay’
WINTER PARK, Fla. (CNS) — Far more than a visual freeze frame of a moment in time, the Stations of the Cross sculpted by Deacon Al Castellana for Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Winter Park compress the intensity of emotion as well. (News)

Chaput: No unity among bishops on sanctions for abortion support
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — Archbishop Charles J. Chaput gave a frank response when asked why there is so much disunity among Catholics on the question of Catholics in political life standing clearly with the Church on major moral issues such as abortion. (News)

Basketball
Champions: The senior girls basketball team at Sacred Heart School in Morrilton was named the state runner-up in the Class 1A state championship in February. (Sports briefs)

Leading Q&A columnist Father John J. Dietzen dies
PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) — Father John J. Dietzen, 83, the foremost question-and-answer columnist in the Catholic press for 35 years, died March 27. (Seeds of Faith)

Faith at foundation of success of ’Soul Surfer’
NEW YORK (CNS) — The true story of a teenage girl who overcame a horrific shark attack to rise to the top of her sport is translated to the big screen in “Soul Surfer” (Tri-Star), an uplifting film about the power of faith and perseverance. (Movie Review)

Priests must be like playwright, prophet and eager young postulant
There was a brief time in my life when I felt toward priesthood very much like I felt toward Shakespeare. I felt I owed both some respect, and I knew that to openly dislike either would be to declare myself a fool. (Columns)

Church’s role in Cuba could aid changes ahead
WASHINGTON (CNS) — If Cuba is going to undergo the kind of political transition that leads to an end of the 50-year-old U.S. embargo, the work toward reconciliation and forgiveness that the Catholic Church is trying to facilitate there is an essential step in the right direction, according to the archbishop of Miami. (Analysis)