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Published: November 25, 2015

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World mourns ‘savage killings on black Friday’ in Paris

VATICAN CITY -- Using God’s name to try to justify violence and murder is “blasphemy,” Pope Francis said Nov. 15, speaking about the terrorist attacks on Paris.

Military honors

Students in the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Catholic High School in Little Rock were honored with the Marine Corps Reserve Association’s Outstanding MCJROTC Award for the 10th time in a ceremony at the school’s gym Nov. 10. (Photo)

Obituaries

Gregory Allen Thielemier, 54, a member of Blessed Sacrament in Jonesboro, died Oct. 15. He is survived by ...

Honoring those who have served

Catholic schools hosted Veterans Day programs on or near Nov. 11 to honor local veterans. (Photo page)

Mexican foreign minister confirms pope will visit

CUAUTITLAN IZCALLI, Mexico -- Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit the capital, Mexico City, along with the states of Chihuahua and Chiapas -- on the northern and southern borders respectively -- and Michoacan in western Mexico.

Holy Year calls for human barriers to tumble down

VATICAN CITY -- For a spiritual leader who denounces a world divided by walls, a Church shuttered by cliques and hearts hardened to compassion, opening wide the Holy Door for the Year of Mercy will be a significant and symbolic moment for Pope Francis.

Priests on call: Pope urges emergency service growth

VATICAN CITY -- The Year of Mercy is a perfect time to increase the number of priests who take turns being on call all night for emergency spiritual care of the sick and dying, Pope Francis wrote.

What blessings has God given you?

“My favorite blessing is my grandpa, Daddy-Buck. Why, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. He is my favorite blessing because he taught me to be kind and to hunt, and I love to hunt. My grandpa was very ...” (Youthspeak, Seeds of Faith)

Syrian priest says abduction a way to carry cross of Jesus

BEIRUT -- When a man dressed head-to-toe in black entered the room where Father Jacques Mourad was being held by the Islamic State, the Syriac Catholic priest thought his time to become a martyr had come.

Focusing on gratitude can lift an unhappy person up

This is the thanks-saying, thanks-doing, thanksgiving season. It begins in late November and runs through Christmas. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is a secular feast, although many religious congregations mark it with special services and prayers. (Columns)