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Pornography, politics take center stage

BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops approved a formal statement on pornography and additions to their quadrennial statement on political responsibility at their Nov. 16-19 fall general meeting in Baltimore.

Resettlement leaders: Let refugees in

RYE, N.Y.  — Fear of Syrian refugees entering the United States in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris is misplaced and antithetical to U.S. values and some governors’ efforts to exclude them from their states is likely illegal, according to a coalition of refugee resettlement leaders.

Story of faith

St. Joseph Academy homeschool students and alumni act in a shadow play of “For Greater Glory,” the story of martyr St. Jose Del Rio during the Cristero War in Mexico at St. Peter the Fisherman Church in Mountain Home Nov. 7. (Photo)

Blessed Teresa a saint next year?

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican calendar for the Year of Mercy deliberately set aside Sept. 4, 2016, as a possible date for the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, if her sainthood cause is concluded by then.

The most Catholic Arkansas counties

While the Catholic population is about 5 percent in the state, these nine counties have higher-than-average Catholic populations.

50th anniversary of ‘Dei Verbum’: Where have all the Bibles gone?

VATICAN CITY — Fifty years ago, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (“Dei Verbum”) urged the faithful to nourish their faith by reading the Bible, putting an end to centuries of seeing direct access to the Scriptures as something reserved to the clergy.

What verse of the Bible speaks to you most?

“Jeremiah 16:19-21; This is my favorite because this makes me think of how the Lord strengthens me through life and how I know that I am never alone. These three verses to me reveal more about …” (Youthspeak, Seeds of Faith)

Challenge of the day: Hear and obey God’s commandments

Over the years, conversations with our children on our Catholic faith have evolved from instructing the basics, such as reciting prayers, receiving the sacraments and learning about Church teachings. That was not difficult. (Columns)

Religious freedom applies to Muslims

Catholics have been fighting for decades for religious freedom. Catholics and many other Christians are in a battle with the U.S. government currently to protect our freedom of religion when it comes to offering certain services in our health insurance plans. The government believes we should be forced to pay for contraception and sterilizations, and the Catholic Church disagrees. (Editorial)

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