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Father Patrick Friend, chaplain and spiritual guidance counselor of Little Rock Catholic High School for Boys in Arkansas, helps to salvage belongings from a friend's home in the aftermath of a tornado April 1, 2023. Powerful storms swept through a large swath of the nation the evening of March 31 into April 1, unleashing deadly tornadoes and carving a path of destruction that killed at least 24 people in the South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.

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2023 Year in Review: Community, teamwork prove pivotal

Central Arkansas pastors and principals meet with the diocesan Catholic Schools Office staff at Christ the King Church in Little Rock Aug. 8 to discuss challenges, including the teacher shortage.

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Ark. Catholic schools grapple with teacher shortage

Deacon Chuck Marino demonstrates serving the blood of Christ during Mass Jan. 25, 2022, at St. Raphael Church in Springdale. Some parishes have been unable to resume offering Communion in both species because pandemic restrictions left them without enough eucharistic ministers
to serve.

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COVID effects still reduce distribution of Eucharist

Some members of a youth group exchange a fist bump while others wave during the Mass for Life Jan. 22 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

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Sign of peace: Are gestures replacing handshakes, hugs?

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Pandemic pushes kids’ mental health crisis to forefront

Students Lily Nguyen (left) and Riley Casados listen during their sixth grade math class at North Little Rock Catholic Academy Sept. 27.

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Diocesan Catholic Schools Office updates mask policy

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Year in Review: Praying and persevering through 2021

Fr. Beni Wego, SVD, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) before visiting patients at the Emergency Room at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital in Louisiana in April 2020. Fr. Wego spent six years as a chaplain there before taking the same role at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro in September 2020.

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Priests say comforting souls part of their healing ministry

Trinity football coach Rashad McGill receives his Pfizer booster shot from Daniel Lunsford, Prince Drug pharmacist, at Trinity Catholic School's vaccination clinic Nov. 10.

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Fort Smith pharmacist keeps vaccination rates up at Trinity

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Endurance, faith getting hospital staff through pandemic

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