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Take Your Faith Along When You Travel

With the end of the school year comes warm weather and thoughts of getting away from it all. Arkansas Catholic has some suggestions to make your 2013 vacation memorable.

 

Catholic sites await in some favorite destinations

By Dwain Hebda, Published: April 11, 2013      

Nothing helps a visitor connect to a new place more than sampling the local flavor and that includes Catholic landmarks. Arkansas Catholic went off the beaten path and asked local Catholics and Arkansas ex-pats for some of the best things to see and do.   St. Louis Named in honor of French monarch Louis IX and acquired by Thomas Jefferson via the Louisiana Purchase, the famed “Gateway to the West” St. Louis offers a number of attractions for More... 

Ernest Hemingway’s Catholic connection in Arkansas

By Marilyn Lanford, Published: April 11, 2013      

PIGGOTT — At the top of a hill on the outskirts of Piggott stands the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, a two-story home surrounded by dogwood trees and daffodils in the spring. Nestled behind the house is a barn-studio filled with memorabilia from an important era of American literature. Purchased in 1997 by Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, the museum’s purpose is to “contribute to the regional, national and global understanding of the 1920s and 1930s More... 

New guidebook gives Vatican visitors tips, maps, info

By Carol Glatz, Published: April 11, 2013   

VATICAN CITY — The official Vatican City travel guide is aimed at making life easier for pilgrims and tourists, and also offers accurate and exhaustive details for scholars and historians. The “General Guide to Vatican City” says it’s trying to fill the gap created over the 80 years since the Vatican published its first official guide in 1930, one year after the city-state was established in 1929. Even though there are many other travel guides out there, More...