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Time Capsule 1911-2011

Click on a headline below to read stories from Arkansas Catholic's special 33-part series on history mined from the first 100 years of Arkansas Catholic and its predecessors.

On March 25, 2011,the Arkansas Catholic celebrated A century of faith in news. Thanks to donors in Arkansas Catholic's Guardian Angels campaign, the entire year of issues from 1911 was preserved in time for the anniversary. As donations come in, additional years are being scanned and indexed. Click here to see searchable digital archives of The Guardian for 1911-1926 and 1945.

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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor kneels during his ordination Mass at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock June 5, 2008, in front of Archbishop Eusebius Beltran of Oklahoma City.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor chosen for Catholics in Arkansas

Bishop J. Peter Sartain greets Pope John Paul II during his first "ad limina" visit to the Vatican in 2004. The bishop's audience with the pope was scheduled for May 18, the pope's 84th birthday.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Bishop Sartain leaves Arkansas; Catholics mourn a pope

Bishop J. Peter Sartain holds hands with representatives of the Episcopal, Baptist and Islamic faiths as they sing "God Bless America," at the conclusion of an interfaith prayer service Sept. 14, 2001, on the steps of the State Capitol. Bishop Sartain delivered the benediction at the service.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Clergy sexual abuse scandal emerges as top story in 2002

Bishop J. Peter Sartain sits for the first time in the cathedra during his ordination Mass March 6, 2000, at Robinson Auditorium.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Bishop retires after 27 years, new leader comes from Memphis

A Hispanic woman shows reverence to Bishop McDonald by kissing his ring before he presides at the late afternoon Mass at Encuentro Hispano at St. John Center in Little Rock in 1997. More than 1,500 Hispanics attended.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Catholic population grows as Hispanics come to Arkansas

Kari Kemmerer, representing the Catholic youth of the diocese, holds the sesquicentennial torch at the opening ceremonies Nov. 27, 1993, at St. John Center in Little Rock. Moments later, she passed the torch to Clare Wolf of Prairie View, who lit the sesquicentennial flame. Fifty runners, representing different parishes in the diocese, carried the torch in one-mile increments along its eight-hour, 50-mile journey from Plum Bayou.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Diocese of Little Rock celebrates sesquicentennial in 1993

Father Scott Friend, diocesan Hispanic ministry directory, teaches the Gospel in Spanish at St. Edward Church in Texarkana in October 1989.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Arkansans work on outreach to minorities in the Church

The first issue of the diocesan newspaper under its new name and design is dated March 21, 1986. An additional design update followed in 1988.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Newspaper changes from The Guardian to Arkansas Catholic

RENEW, a spiritual revitalization program for all parishioners, is covered on the front page of <em>The Guardian</em>'s edition of Dec. 14, 1984.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Peace and justice promoted, led by Father Joseph Biltz

Bishop Andrew J. McDonald and Mother Teresa greet adults and children outside Abba House in Little Rock in June 1982. During the vis it she agreed to send her sisters to staff the home for unwed mothers.
News/Time Capsule 1911-2011

Mother Teresa comes to Little Rock, first deacons serve

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Deacon Ronald “Ron” Francis Stager, who served Deacon Ronald “Ron” Francis Stager, who served St. Anne Church in North Little Rock, died Nov. 5 following a tragic car accident. He was 73.

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/14/deacon-ronald-stager-obituary/
Pastor Father Juan Guido told those gathered that Pastor Father Juan Guido told those gathered that 90 percent of the bones of the “Little Flower” were resting in the reliquary, an ornate chest adorned with wood-carved flowers. 

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/13/relics-st-therese-little-rock/
The Catholic faith is one of the richest in all of The Catholic faith is one of the richest in all of Judeo-Christianity. How can you be expected to explain and defend 2,000-plus years of Church history in just a few moments? What are the most important points to bring up? 

Arkansas Catholic spoke with clergy and lay leaders to seek advice on explaining, defending and evangelizing the faith. 

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/11/defending-catholic-faith-apologetics/
"... Our identity is to ultimately be rooted in th "... Our identity is to ultimately be rooted in the unconditional love our Father possesses for us," Mount St. Mary senior Oakley Wilbur writes in this Young Faith column.

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/10/28/discovering-identity-in-christ/
The Ladies of Charity began in Arkansas in 2008 an The Ladies of Charity began in Arkansas in 2008 and worked closely with religious orders founded by St. Vincent de Paul, the Vincentians and the Daughters of Charity.

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/06/marys-cradle-helping-mothers/
“We’re up to a 4.31 percent increase,” super “We’re up to a 4.31 percent increase,” superintendent Theresa Hall told Arkansas Catholic Oct. 31. “We’ve been increasing since 2020-2021. That’s when we really started increasing. Each year it was 2 percent, 2 percent, 2.5 percent, 3 percent, now we’re over 4 percent.”

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/05/parochial-schools-growth-arkansas/
Today was a free day in Rome but most of the pilgr Today was a free day in Rome but most of the pilgrims chose to travel to Assisi and tour the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi. They celebrated Mass at the Basilica of St. Clare. Please pray for them as they fly home Saturday!
"... Today’s pagans seek validation from us by i "... Today’s pagans seek validation from us by imposing on us laws that permit grave evils, like abortion in places where it will remain legal even after the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade," Bishop Taylor writes in this "From the Bishop" column.

https://arkansas-catholic.org/2025/11/04/jesus-sends-disciples-message/
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