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Critics often dismiss Cuba as a failed state, but without accepting how badly it's hamstrung by the US blockade, writes Helen Yaffe (University of Glasgow).

Published: July 26, 2021    2020 SHARE! families The Share High School Exchange Program is looking for 34 Catholic host families for foreign exchange students. The teens will be arriving in August from Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland and France.  The program said, “They are in need of caring Catholic families (with or without children) to provide a home and share with them this unique experience. The students speak English, are covered by medical insurance and have adequate spending money...

Maryanne Meyerriecks Joyce Becker (left) helps her granddaughter Riley Becker make potholders on a loom at the Immaculate Conception Ladies Auxiliary meeting July 14. Maryanne Meyerriecks Joyce Becker (left) helps her granddaughter Riley Becker make potholders on a loom at the Immaculate Conception Ladies Auxiliary meeting July 14. FORT SMITH -- The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Immaculate Conception Church is about to send its youngest member to kindergarten. Riley Becker began attending the group�...

James Keary Janet Edgar, principal of St. John School in Hot Springs, stands beside the schools new 14-passenger bus that will transport Hot Springs students to Catholic High School and Mount St. Mary Academy starting in August. St. John will offer partial scholarships to the Little Rock high schools as an incentive to keep local students in Catholic school all the way to graduation. James Keary Janet Edgar, principal of St. John School in Hot Springs, stands beside the schools new 14-passenger...

Published: July 22, 2021    Courtesy Christ the King School Students at Christ the King School in Little Rock and other Catholic elementary schools in Arkansas will be required to wear masks indoors this fall. Courtesy Christ the King School Students at Christ the King School in Little Rock and other Catholic elementary schools in Arkansas will be required to wear masks indoors this fall. With a resurgence of COVID-19 in Arkansas and no vaccine for children 11 and younger, masks will conti...

Cole Blagg Search team members perform a skit in St. John Center’s Morris Hall chapel July 17. Team members included Ryley Welcher, Sacred Heart Church in Morrilton (left); Jacinta Murphy, St. Joseph Church in Conway (middle, seated); and Jacob Theriot, Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Hot Springs Village (seated). Cole Blagg Search team members perform a skit in St. John Center’s Morris Hall chapel July 17. Team members included Ryley Welcher, Sacred Heart Church in Morrilton (left); Jacin...

Print, digital subscribers can read more inspiring stories of fellow Catholics Published: July 14, 2021    CNS / Henry Nicholls, Reuters Here are some of the stories you missed if you didnt read Arkansas Catholics July 10 issue. Some of the stories and columns in Arkansas Catholic appear only in the print and free digital editions. To read what youre missing, subscribe today.   Rosary brings comfort as search goes on MIAMI -- Following the sudden collapse of a multistory building with peo...

Published: June 24, 2021    By J.Hentschel I am reading that “the concern in the Vatican is not to use access to the Eucharist as a political weapon”. (NYTimes.com).   I am not understanding the term “political weapon”.  Standing firm in our Catholic faith and morals cannot be perceived as any weapon.  It’s this very basic Catholic faith instituted by Jesus Christ who gave the keys to the kingdom to St. Peter, our first pope, and an unbroken linage.  The Church has always b...

Location: St. Joseph School Endowment Office & Online Contact: Jacqueline Kordsmeier 501-329-1818 logo Support Catholic education on Friday, March 19 through a contribution to the St. Joseph School Endowment. March 19 is significant in that it is the Feast of St. Joseph, our patron saint for the school, and so it is a perfect date to celebrate a “Day of Giving.” Your gift means even more thanks to a loyal donor who has put up matching money. All donations are tax-deductible. Visit http://...

Contact: Viola Talbot 479-253-7710 or 877-504-9865 In a time of COVID isolation, Little Portion Hermitage and Monastery is growing. On April 16 at 11 a.m. we are celebrating the permanent profession of Brother John MarmionVilla, BSC, and Brother Maximilian Orvieto, BSC, in the Celibate Monastic Brotherhood of The Brothers and Sisters of Charity. The solemn celebration takes place during a Profession Mass presided over by Abbot Lawrence Staswszen of St Gregory Abbey in Shawnee, Okla., who i...