For the past 14 years, Jaime “Serio” Torres has served as the associate director of the Faith Formation Office, overseeing the St. Andrew School of Evangelization and his nationally recognized program Fuerza Transformadora. On June 28, he is leaving his position at…
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Name: Annie Woody Parish: St. Scholastica Church, New Blaine Age: 75 Family: Annie and her husband Dewey have a blended family of four children, 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Career: Retired controller for the Hardscrabble Country Club Why you want to know…
« read »This year, 685 people are entering the Catholic Church in Arkansas. Several of these candidates and elect shared with Arkasas Catholic why they’re joining the Church. There were so many responses that we couldn’t fit them all in our printed paper —…
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Sometimes, when Protestant students attend parochial school, they feel the Holy Spirit lead them to enter the Catholic Church. With more than 650 Arkansans preparing to enter the Church this Easter season, three students shared their faith journeys as they prepare to…
« read »During the Easter Vigil Mass, 685 people will enter the Church through baptism or by making a profession of faith. The elect, formerly known as catechumen, have not been baptized. They will receive baptism, confirmation and first Communion. Candidates are Christians who…
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The wrinkled page 68 of diocesan faith formation director Jeff Hines’s 1921 copy of the Baltimore Catechism taught a generation of Catholics the following about vocations: “God, we are told, assigned to every one in this world a certain work to perform…
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A new recovery ministry is in the Diocese of Little Rock, and a small parish in Franklin County is the first to host meetings. Sacred Heart Church in Charleston, 20 miles east of Fort Smith, has Catholic in Recovery meetings every Sunday…
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When Garry and Mary VanCleve woke up at 5:30 a.m. Nov. 5, 2022, getting ready to enjoy coffee, read the Bible together and pray for family and friends, they didn’t know how their lives were about to change. Garry started shaking violently,…
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Italian rock music blared from a speaker in the Family Life Center of Christ the King Church in Little Rock on the morning of March 2. Around a dozen parishioners — with last names like Volpe, Morello and Bertasi — gathered to…
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